It almost seemed like a miracle to Haldis Gundersen of Oslo, Norway, when she turned on her kitchen faucet and found the water had turned into beer.
Two flights down, employees and customers at the Big Tower Bar were horrified when water poured out of the beer taps.
By an improbable feat of clumsy plumbing, someone at the bar in Kristiandsund, in western Norway, had accidentally hooked the beer hoses to the water pipes for Gundersen’s apartment.
“We had settled down for a cozy Saturday evening, had a nice dinner, and I was just going to clean up a little,” Gundersen, 50, said Monday. “I turned on the kitchen faucet and beer came out.”
Gundersen said the beer was flat and not tempting, even in a country where a half-pint can cost about $3.75 in grocery stores.
Per Egil Myrvang of the local beer distributor said he instructed bartenders by telephone how to reconnect the pipes.
“The water and beer pipes do touch each other, but you have to be really creative to connect them together,” he said.
Gundersen joked about having the pub send up free brew for her next party.
“But maybe it would be easier if they just invited me down for a beer,” she said.
Two-bedroom townhouse for sale; includes groom
Mark R. Miller of Greensburg, Pa., hopes some female homebuyer is looking for a unique feature: him.
The 47-year-old says he’s been too busy to get married. He helps parents find missing children through his charity, the American Association for Lost Children.
Miller has been running ads in newspapers and on the Web site www.townhousewithgroom.com for his two-bedroom town house, which includes a wooden deck, air conditioning and gas fireplace. The asking price is $95,000.
“I’d like to be married, and I was going to sell (the town house) on my own, so I thought, why not put the two together?” Miller said.
Miller came up with the idea after reading about a woman who sold her home through a “house with bride” marketing campaign. Any deal is subject to compatibility, his ad says.
Miller said he will donate to his charity any profit after satisfying the mortgage.
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