the random statements thread

An Australian prison guard held hostage for two days was released after a ransom demand for pizzas was met.

A New Zealand man who called police officers 'pigs' has been ordered to spend a day at a pig farm.

A 77-year-old granny made a citizen's arrest in Germany when she rugby-tackled a 25-year-old jay walker.

A drunk driver was arrested in Germany after he accidentally rang the police instead of a breakdown service when he had a flat tyre.
 
The pump to pressurize a [beer] keg is called a bung.
The hole you insert it into is called a Bung Hole.

bung holes are more commonly used when talking about wine, but can be used with any type of liquid. References go back to Shakespearean times:

Hamlet: To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
Horatio: 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
Hamlet: No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...ine:cask&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?bungho01.wav=bunghole

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bunghole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunghole

just to clear things up on the bung and the hole
 
Your canadian paranoia has no place in here! lets keep it factual!
*hides from the evil canadian robots*

and i knew about "bung hole" way before dirty jobs even existed.
 

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