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Alcohol fear - prison inmates get a Christmas chocolate ban
Dec 21, 2007, 13:42 GMT
Stockholm - Inmates at a Swedish prison have been banned from ordering boxes of chocolates for the festive season over fears that some confectionary contains alcohol, reports said Friday.
The management of the Brinkebergsanstalten prison in Vanersborg, south-western Sweden, feared the inmates would overindulge in confectionery containing alcohol, the tabloid GT reported.
The inmates had saved up to buy a popular box containing assorted chocolates, including some flavoured with rum and raisin, the report said.
But the boxes were stopped. 'They are not allowed to drink alcohol at the prison and that also applies for rum-raisin confectionary,' prison official Karin Eriksson told the newspaper.
A spokesman for Kraft Foods that owns the maker of the chocolates initially thought the newspaper was joking when asked to comment.
In order to consume the equivalent of one shot of snaps, you have to eat some 32 pieces of confectionary, Anders Carne estimated, adding: 'Gosh, what an effort.'
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www.thesharkbook.com/blogDec 24th, 2007 - 06:54:59
In related news, a California school district suspended a 12-year-old for having a piece of chocolate candy filled with a half-ounce of booze. The 7th grade scofflaw received a suspension notice that would not look out of place in the type of institution mentioned above, for having 'possession, used, sold, furnished or been under the influence of any controlled substance, alcohol or intoxicant.'
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