Searching the wine news is always amusing but today's article in the Napa Valley Register really had us thinking about the power of wine (and hugs). . .
Drink wine, stop crime
By Jack Heeger
Friday, July 20, 2007
By Jack Heeger
Friday, July 20, 2007
A story making the rounds of the news media last weekend involved a small group whose outdoor dinner in Washington, D.C., was interrupted by a hooded intruder carrying a gun.He pointed it at a teenager and said he’d shoot if he wasn’t given money.Everyone froze except one guest who offered the gunman a glass of wine (it was Chateau Malescot St-Exupery, a Third Growth Bordeaux). He took it, praised it, put his gun away, apologized, said he might have come to the wrong house, then asked for a hug. The woman who offered him the wine gave him one. He asked for a group hug and all five people did so, then he left with the crystal glass (with wine) still in hand.Police acknowledged that while it was a strange story, it appeared to be true.
(While giving him the group hug, someone should have whacked him on the head with the bottle.)
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