December 11, 2004

Vodka Pipeline running from Belarussia to Lithuania uncovered. The thin three kilometere long plastic pipe, buried a few centimeters underground, ran under several roads, along a riverbed and ended next to the home of a Lithuanian citizen.
  • Vodka is illegal in Belarus? Why? Seems to me, if you're capable of laying 3km of pipe across a border, then you could easily carry bottles across the border.
  • But this is a million times cooler. They should have built in a filtration system while they were at it.
  • A man's gotta eat...
  • This is more impressive than some irrigation systems used in the creative agriculture field!...3 klicks and under roads. Wow!
  • Once again, proof positive that neither god nor government can keep a man away from cheep booze. It's a tribute to the enduring addictive nature of the human spirit.
  • Is it just me, or does that still look like it was made from a YUGO's exhaust system?
  • Obviously a fake story. Call snopes.
  • Did your hear about the Polacks that tried to open a liquor pipeline to the Ukraine? Uhh.. damn, I can't think of a punchline.
  • OK, how about this. "Ireland claims the Belarus-Lithuania border; threatens to send troops."
  • I'm with Booby Turner.
  • er, I mean Bobby Turner
  • What are the taxes like on liquor in the Baltic states?
  • Very suspicious name of alleged vodka pipeliner. Homer Simpski?
  • Insofar as they said Reuters reported it, they're right. International smuggling pipeline: make it faster, better, cheaper.
  • The articles make it sound like the EU bans countries from selling vodka. Is this true? and if so, WTF?
  • The articles make it sound like the EU bans countries from selling vodka. No it's about avoiding excise duty "Moonshine vodka from Belarus is sold on the black market in Lithuania, undercutting prices of legitimate alcohol that have risen sharply since the Baltic nation joined the European Union in May."
  • best. pipeline. ever.
  • does that still look like it was made from a YUGO's exhaust system? Probably was. I once read an article by a distillation researcher who mentioned seeing stills in Eastern Europe made out of car radiators and old air conditioners. He had avoided testing the product personally.
  • Where do you get that moonshine? Where do you get that swill? It's cheaper than legal rotgut, and a man can drink his fill. We ran a tiny plastic tube the sort used for fish tanks*, across the border, underground, and along the river's bank. If you are a proud Lithuanian and also a thirsty, zany one, drink it plain with minimal pain before winter freezes the ground again. *imagined, not factual -- it's how I'd do it
  • Howdy, Mr Storekeeper, I'd like to buy three kilometers of fish tank tubing, please. O wot is wroing with my head? It is true, alas, some days I have poo for brains.
  • This would work so WELL around here, where some counties are dry & some are wet - I can't believe nobody ever thought of it. Damn Russians, they've beaten us to the (spiked) punch again!
  • What we have here, gentleman, is a Vodka Pipeline Gap! We cannot allow the Belorussians and the Lithuanians to take the lead in critical alcohol pipeline technology. In no short order, the Poles, the Ukrainians, the Latvians, and the Russians will have transnational alcohol pipelines, while the rest of the free world falls irrevocably behind. What we are seeing is the beginning of an Iron Pipeline sweeping across Europe, and we MUST respond in kind! Call your senator, congressman, and W. and tell them that we need to boost our domestic interstate alcohol pipeline funding, or watch the American Way of Intoxication come to an end. This message brought to your by your friends at StrangeLove Technologies: Better Living Through Fluoridation