Free wine from the tap

MARINO - Some residents have benefited quickly to fill buckets and bottles, others were less surprised when they wanted to take a bath. Due to an error of the water company, it was wine instead of water from the tap.
During the grape festival in the Italian Marino, the tradition is that wine from the fountain on the village square sprays, but this year it was different. By a wrong link the wine flowed from the taps of the inhabitants of the town.

The mistake was of course quickly discovered when citizens discovered a strange smell of alcohol when the did the dishes or filling up the bath tub. Palozzi the Mayor of Marino apologized to his citizens later that day. The problem was quickly solved, but smart residents had already as much as possible buckets and bottles filled with wine..

1 dec, 2008