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  Home › Archive › 2008 › October › "Man Arrested In Santa Cruz With Beer Keg, Harmonica, Wet Suit..."	"Man Arrested In Santa Cruz With Beer Keg, Harmonica, Wet Suit..."Posted by Alan McLeod on Thursday, October 30, 2008 in Beer and Law, Beer and Media - 2 comments"...and hallucinogenic mushrooms."That's a headline in The Mercury News of San Jose today. When I go hunting Goggle, once in every while, for beer news to comment upon there are always masses of these sad stories about beer and violence to get through about, say, man beats man with beer or, you know, man beats beer with man or, heck, even beer beats man with man. They are unendingly dreary, always say pretty much the same thing and undermine the work everyone does to raise the perspective folk have about beer. But the fine work of Marshall Cartwright, 33, reported this week in The Mercury News really stands apart from the crowd. What a genius. Especially given he was "claiming to be a covert military operative from Australia" even while he was "urinating in the bushes" when he was not sell the beer in the keg by handing around a Mason jar...11:45 a.m. last Monday. Excellent work Marshall Cartwright, 33. Brilliant. You have reached the apex of the beer pig pantheon. We salute you!-------Have you read The Unbearable Nonsense of Craft Beer - A Rant in Nine Acts by Alan and Max yet? It's out on Kindle as well as Lulu. Maureen Ogle said this about the book: "... immensely readable, sometimes slightly surreal rumination on beer in general and craft beer in particular. Funny, witty, but most important: Smart. The beer geeks will likely get all cranky about it, but Alan and Max are the masters of cranky..."Ron Pattinson said: "I'm in a rather odd situation. Because I appear in the book. A fictional version of me. It's a weird feeling."CommentsComments are locked. No additional comments may be posted.Knut Albert - October 31, 2008 6:13 AMhttp://knutalbert.wordpress.comThe wet suit sort of supports the Australian military story, though the harmonica is a bit more tricky.We trust you to follow the case, Alan. If we don't hear more about Mr. Catwright, 33, we can assume that the story is hushed up and that he really is a spy. Maybe he had all his funds in Icelandic Kroner and had to sell beer to get money to call home to Australia?neesee - November 4, 2008 5:52 PMBeer keg, harmonica, wet suit AND psilocybin? Sounds like my kind of party! Militaryoperative from Australia peeing in the bushes is too funny. But when he took the masonjar with him, I'd be a little suspicious that he might be recycling the beer!	Please visit our kind sponsors, Ontario Craft Brewers. They are the makers of many of the fine ales and brews you read about around here.