Lucky or unlucky? Locked in a pub for days!

Biggins

While thousands braved the cold to begin their Christmas shopping, seven people in North Yorkshire are praying for better weather after being snowed into a pub for eight days and counting.

Heavy snow showers and strong winds have left the group stuck in the Lion Inn pub in Blakey Ridge, Kirkbymoorside since last Friday, with little chance of an escape.
Drifts of up to 16ft blocked the inn's doors and windows, with the surrounding roads impassable, and to make matters worse, the stranded seven's cars are buried under nine foot of snow.

More here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335602/UK-snow-Seven-trapped-Yorkshire-pub-days-Big-Freeze-set-week.html

So what would you do for those days to keep your spirits up (no pun intended)?

MagicMarker

It probably had a pool table, so that's where I'd be. In my dad's pub as a kid he'd give us the key to the table so we didn't have to pay, many an hour I spent at that thing hustling the old folk :cool:

Saila

never heard of a lock-in

Patri

They need to stop wine-ing :pac:

Saila

beerkfest

Mint Sauce

Drink!

I saw this earlier. I wonder if the owners/bosses will make them pay for the stock that was lost

**Timbuk2**

Although it sounds bad, I'd much rather be locked into Tesco for the whole night. Think of the fun 8-)

Saila

Saila wrote: »

never heard of a lock-in

if carlsberg did lock-ins...

Saila

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

Although it sounds bad, I'd much rather be locked into Tesco for the whole night. Think of the fun 8-)

yeah eating lots and freezing your ass off...funtimes!

papajimsmooth

They probably realized how annoying their friends are sober

3hn2givr7mx1sc

As long as the telly was working and ya had a pool table and/or darts board ya'd be grand.

minidazzler

Saila wrote: »

yeah eating lots and freezing your ass off...funtimes!

Tesco has vast amounts of drink, a bedding department, food and a camping department, very easy to eat well and keep warm in there!

Biggins

If there was some way of staying warm (fire/blanket) enough and there was food.
As much as I would consider myself to be unlucky, more so however, I would see myself as lucky to be still alive and be in a place where my best mates could be found.

The_Minister

Eating would be the main issue - that and the water pipes freezing.

Adyx

Did this not happen last year too?

Edit: Yes it did. Also North Yorkshire, New Years Eve/Day.

bryaner

Free beer lucky, having to pay unlucky..

Saila

minidazzler wrote: »

Tesco has vast amounts of drink, a bedding department, food and a camping department, very easy to eat well and keep warm in there!

you forgot the patio heaters, barbeques and firelighters

Saila

Adyx wrote: »

Did this not happen last year too?

Edit: Yes it did. Also North Yorkshire, New Years Eve/Day.

deja vu IRL!

policarp

Time for a change of underwear.

John change with Paul.

Peter change with James.

Geoff change with Michael.

Sorry Anthony you'll have 'till next week...

brummytom

I get locked, in a pub, every week.





/gets coat

The_Minister

The_Minister wrote: »

Eating would be the main issue - that and the water pipes freezing.

Got marooned in a pub once, floods! The food ran out before the beer, we were fedup with drinking by then.

Ended up drinking tap water...

tony1kenobi

Biggins wrote: »

So what would you do for those days to keep your spirits up (no pun intended)?

I'd compose my angry letter to the Daily Mail.....no doubt blaming it all on darkies...and I would ponder what outfits Katy Perry has changed in to since I last saw a paper.

Dravokivich

To be honest, I'd love to call into work and explain that I couldn't come in because I was stuck in a pub.

neil_hosey

fcuk that.. my biggest worry would be running out of beer..

admiralofthefleet

it would be all well and good getting locked into a pub but you would need a kitchen to make food becuase as we all know, an empty sack wont stand

Son Of A Vidic

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

it would be all well and good getting locked into a pub but you would need a kitchen to make food becuase as we all know, an empty sack wont stand

Possibly not, because your 'sacks' would be full of beer.

TPD

Any decent pub will have a month or two's stock of bacon fries and peanuts behind the bar. Sorted.

seanbmc

minidazzler wrote: »

Tesco has vast amounts of drink, a bedding department, food and a camping department, very easy to eat well and keep warm in there!

In the event of a zombie apocalypse that's where I would be holding up

ejmaztec

If they're still there next May, someone's bound to find the snow machine.

Nodin

Has to be said its possibly one of the best places you could get stuck in...open fires and all.....
http://www.lionblakey.co.uk/photosinsidelion.htm

CrazyRabbit

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

Although it sounds bad, I'd much rather be locked into Tesco for the whole night. Think of the fun 8-)

You'd be fine for the first 2 days. Then all their food would start to rot. By the 6th day, you'd be starving and dying from the gases being given off by the rotting food.

cooltown

Lucky! Eating crisps, drinking and watching tv.
Doesn't seem to bad to me!

nitromaster

Nodin wrote: »

Has to be said its possibly one of the best places you could get stuck in...open fires and all.....
http://www.lionblakey.co.uk/photosinsidelion.htm

*looks at pictures of beds*

jackiebaron

Folks,

It's an inn, not just a pub. They have armchairs, multiple bars, open fireplaces and I'm sure the coal/wood bunker is well stocked. They have bedrooms. They have a cellar with enough beer to float a battleship. They have a large restaurant therefore they have a huge kitchen with EVERYTHING for breakfast, lunch and dinner...so they have the ingredients for full English fryups, steaks, fish, poultry, the lot.
There is no eating peanuts and pork scratchings with this crowd. And they have cable/sat tv and internet. Actually we should ring them up and tell them to register on boards.ie and give us all a running commentary of what they're up to.