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From: JakeStraw	2/9/2005 8:20:43 AM
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DID MAN REALLY PISS HIS WAY TO FREEDOM? News sources around the world last month reported a story about a Slovak man who was trapped in his car under an avalanche and freed himself by drinking about eight gallons of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it. Rescue teams reportedly found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi car was buried in the Slovak Tatra mountains. "I was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then I peed on it to melt it," he was quoted in stories. "It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt. But I'm glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there." Too good a story to be true? Snopes.com, a web site that tracks urban legends, isn't sure. It points out that a correspondent who works for a Slovak news agency said that us that not only has the avalanche story (or any news story about an avalanche) not appeared in the news media there, but the very same tale (of Czech origin, told about an unnamed man caught in the Austrian Alps) was circulating in that country as an e-mail joke even before the heavy snows described in the article occurred. realbeer.com

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