Arizona town opens time capsule, can't find brandy

[The Straight Story]

Arizona town opens time capsule, can't find brandy


SOMERTON, Ariz. (AP) -- A town in Arizona is missing a 25-year-old bottle of brandy.

When officials in Somerton opened a time capsule Saturday, they discovered mementos from 1985 - but didn't find a bottle of Mexican brandy that was supposed to be in the capsule.

Somerton street and solid waste supervisor Pancho Soto was part of the crew that buried the time capsule.

He says he was surprised when it was opened and there was no bottle of brandy. Soto says it was there when the crew buried the capsule in concrete along Main Street.

The time capsule did contain letters from Somerton residents, photographs, a VHS tape and a 1981 Time magazine with a picture of President Ronald Reagan on the cover.


http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/03/15/offbeat1.html?sid=101

[tridim]

1. Mole people. nt

[Catshrink]

2. This is in the southwestern corner of Arizona..

and it gets miserably hot there in the summer. I wonder if the bottle burst from the alcohol getting too hot in the summer heat and having no other way to release the pressure. In my lab rat days, we once had a bottle of acetone explode that way -- there were no traces of it left except part of the cap.

[The Straight Story]

3. Nah, it was the mole people. Drunk mole people. (nt)

[Lasher]

7. Does it get hot enough to melt glass?

No mention of the cap or any other remains of the bottle. Mole people got the brandy.

[Catshrink]

10. Mole people or

as too many Arizonans would say... oh, I can't say it. It would be something about immigrants. Use your imagination -- the nastiest part. That feeling is rampant here.

[snooper2]

4. wow, how exciting..

a time capsule from the 80's :rofl:

Only good thing to come out of the 80's was Eazy E :P

[Alexander]

5. Since this is Arizona, the brandy was the most important part.

[Catshrink]

8. I'm surprised there wasn't a gun.

[Historic NY]

6. ha ha.........

[maxsolomon]

9. kids will do anything to get alcohol

they are clever and resourceful

[Kali]

11. was it Presidente or Don Pedro?

no loss:puke: :rofl:

[nykym]

12. It was

Morlocks!

[dashrif]

13. I

drank it and woke up naked next to three morlocks.
Thats the last time that I party with brandy that I find in the ground free or not.