Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Raptor's Den II -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CharlieChina who wrote (2067)	7/21/2004 1:17:58 PM
From: Tom Swift	Respond to of 3432

Swedes Get Sloshed on Alcoholic Soap Suds 2 hours, 1 minute ago Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo! By TOMMY GRANDELL, Associated Press Writer STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Some people at a three-day music festival in southern Sweden got more than just clean hands from the liquid soap in the portable toilets. They got a nice clean buzz, too. Since the detergent had 62 percent alcohol in it, some users were more keen on spiking their sodas than washing their hands. A 14-year-old girl was briefly hospitalized with a minor a stomach ache after she put too much soap into a carbonated beverage during the Baltic Sea Music Festival in Karlshamn, a town that once was the center for Sweden's liquor production. Most of the soap, locked in dispensers, disappeared over night, said Anders Persson, whose company Bajamaja was hired to provide 65 portable latrines. "I suspected something was wrong because the soap went like hot cakes," he said Wednesday. Many of the soap dispensers were smashed by the time the festival ended on Sunday, Persson said. Access to alcohol is tightly regulated in the Scandinavian country of 9 million with the state-monopoly selling spirits through a national chain of retail outlets. Swedish law prohibits the sale of any alcoholic products to anyone younger than 18. Some 200 years ago, Karlshamn was a hub for the production of "snaps," a Scandinavian variety of hard liquor, which was made at the town distillery and then shipped throughout Sweden. Since then, the distillery has become a museum and the only liquid made in the town is vegetable oil.