Even Sitting in a Dumpster, Beer is Beer
Two Columbia, MO garbage men decided throwing away one shipment of expired beer was hard enough, and they just couldn’t bring themselves to do it again.
A Columbia distributor, Scheppers Distributing Co., sent 1,500 cases of expired beer to the landfill on April 1 in two shipments. The first shipment was destroyed immediately, but the second, containing about 700 cases of Budweiser and Michelob Ultra, was not.
Margrace Buckler, the city’s human resource director, said two Solid Waste Division workers, who haven’t been identified, brought a city pickup truck to the landfill and hauled off about 50 cases of the beer.
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