Mates pop out to pub - and are trapped in it for three days

Two New Zealand men have had to spend three days in a pub because of bad weather.

Julian Watt and Blair Stewart popped out to the Clarks Junction Hotel, near Outram, for a quiet beer.

Three days later the 24-year-olds are still there because heavy snowfalls have closed the road which passes the building.

Mr Watt swears he has made three attempts to get home to Dunedin, on one occasion resorting to a tractor, but to no avail.

The architect has missed two days of work but told the Otago Daily Times: "I think my boss is pretty good about it. I'm beginning to smell a bit, because I'm in the same change of clothes."

The two say they are passing the time chatting and learning to play cards.

Pub owner Adrian Bardrick said it was the first time in his five years at the pub it had been snowed in. "If the trucks don't arrive in the next two days, we'll start to get a bit short of things," he said.

"But there's plenty of beer because there's been no-one here to drink it."

[From Ananova.com, 29 May 2002]