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By: sooz
Date: 8/26/00 7:22:17 AM
# Replies: 13
Beer spill kills thousands of fish in creek
GOLDEN, Colo. — An employee of Coors Brewing flipped the wrong switch Friday and sent 77,500 gallons of beer into a creek, killing thousands of fish and prompting health warnings. The beer, which was in fermenting tanks, washed through a wastewater treatment plant before ending up in Clear Creek, a Coors spokeswoman said. The fish likely suffocated from the alcohol - among other things - produced in the tanks. The Colorado Department of Public Health advised residents to avoid contact with the creek south of the brewery because of a small bacterial risk. The water could cause illness if consumed, health officials said. State and federal investigators have not determined whether any fines will be levied against the company.
Response #1
By: Da Sissop
Date: 8/26/00 8:40:24 AM
Okay... um, *why* does the Coors brewery even *have* a switch that can send 77,500 gallons of beer into a nearby creek?
Response #2
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 8/26/00 8:24:16 PM
You know that 'cool mountain spring water' they always advertise? Guess where it comes from...
It's also worth noting that the watershed where the Coors plant lives is the same watershed where the Rocky Flats site is. Rocky Flats is where cold war nuclear warheads were manufactured, and the area is highly radioactive.
Taste the mountains!
Response #3
By: Ralf
Date: 8/27/00 8:25:34 AM
It's *BEER*, right? The fish drank the beer -- actually breathed it, I suppose -- and croaked.
SO why can't we eat the fish? Aren't they like marinated in beer now?
Response #4
By: Da Sissop
Date: 8/27/00 9:04:38 AM
It sounds tasty, except I think it's generally a bad idea to eat creatures you find already dead and floating in a river.
Call me old-fashioned, but I'd rather eat something that was alive and healthy and fighting like hell right up until the bitter end. Like sausage, for example.
Response #5
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 9/2/00 11:11:02 PM
Rolling Rock is right down the way from 3 Mile Island.
Response #6
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 12/27/00 5:35:53 AM
I saw this, and couldn't help but think of posting it here.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20001226/ts/news_from_the_crime_blotter_1.html
In the article titled Wacky Weed Whacker Bears All, a 15 year old girl calls the cops on a 62 year old man doing his gardening in the nude. Now at first you could think we yeah maybe she has a point. 62 year old man doing his gardening in the nude, probably not too attractive. Then you read the part that, at least to me, stuck out volumes (pun intended). He was doing his gardening in the nude, AT MIDNIGHT!
This is a prime example of a little spolied bitch!
I mean granted, this is probably not exactly the moon lit night that many of us would hope for, but folks something is really, really wrong when some little 15 year old cunt can not only call the police over something like this, but have a 62 year old man arrested, JUST becasuse he was in his garden, nude at midnight. We all know damn well that probably what was happening here was that the old guy probably caught her sneaking out one night, told her parents, and this is her retribution for getting narced on. Ok, let's forget right and wrong here, what about good, plain common sense? If even the police that were called out on this "offense" can't see what was going on here, we are truly, truly in the darkest days of our history.
What the hell was this little bitch doing up at midnight watching him anyway?
Sheesh!!!
Response #7
By: sooz
Date: 12/27/00 7:37:48 AM
Spas sez: "If even the police that were called out on this "offense" can't see what was going on here, we are truly, truly in the darkest days of our history."
The Inquisition, Trail of Tears, Holocost and slavery are NOTHING compared to THIS!
Response #8
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 12/27/00 12:48:01 PM
Sooz:
"The Inquisition, Trail of Tears, Holocost and slavery are NOTHING compared to THIS!"
That's right!
He-he.
But you know, is the apathy and stupidity around situations such as these, that ultimately lead to tragedies as those.
Response #9
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 12/31/00 10:00:26 AM
I say we all work in our gardens in the nude in solidarity. Ralph's got a head start.
Response #10
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/19/01 1:33:13 PM
I can't believe that 77,500 gallons of beer were WASTED. Just like that.
Then again, it was COORS. So I can't really properly MOURN now, can I, since it was not really a TRUE BEER.
Response #11
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/20/01 2:42:16 AM
The true beer is the beer that cannot be known.
(Cuz you were too sloshed to remember the name.)
Response #12
By: bob
Date: 10/20/01 11:00:31 AM
yeah, but the pictures of all the rednecks in lawn chairs with straws in the creek was hilarious
Response #13
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/20/01 1:40:52 PM
It would be fun to have a beer-tasting party. NO labels, just bottles. You could have people guess which beers they are. And then vote on which is the best beer.
Mmmm. I think it's time for a brewsky.