You can’t get decent rum over here – not easily anyway, only that white stuff or the heavy navy rum – so someone who gives a whole bottle away is generous indeed. But this story is definitely one for filing under unbelievably bizarre & unfortunate.
A sixty-three year old man died of a suspected heart attack. It was only after two friends suffered seizures at his home while on a visit to pay their condolences that the true cause of death was discovered to be pure liquid cocaine which had been mixed in to a bottle of good Caribbean rum.
The rum had been given by one man to an acquaintance who agreed to carry it so that the first could avoid excess baggage charges. The first man was detained in customs at the airport, so the man who had been doing him the favour gave the bottle to a friend of his in London; she in turn gave it to the man who died after he gave her a lift as a favour.
