Blood for Beer

“How many beers would it take you to get drunk after giving a pint?

PRAGUE (AFP) - Czechs are being offered two beers in return for their blood in an effort to recruit blood and bone marrow donors.

Anyone donating blood as part of the "beer for blood" campaign taking place in Prague Friday will receive two half-litre glasses of beer in return.


"The objective is to recruit new regular blood donors and also bone tissue donors," the initiative's organiser Jaroslav Novak, editor of a Czech beer magazine, told AFP.


The campaign will be held as part of a fair dedicated to St Wenceslas at the Vystaviste exhibition ground in the north of the city. It will then travel to other parts of the country.


The Czechs are the world's largest per-capita consumers of beer, knocking back 162 litres per person last year”

“Too funny--
When the Red Cross says to replenish with liquids, I don't think they meant beer... of course you know that many college students give blood for precisely the same reason... LOL”

“Yes, I did the same thing in the military and I can say you get drunk a lot quicker. I'd say you'll feel pretty good after those two beers.”

“There's been blood drives in the U.S. where they give out vouchers for beer as an incentive. It works well around here that's for sure.”

“Long Beach, Ca, 1966. Sold the blood for ?$ and there was a bar right next to the blood bank. Not just a cheap drunk, but a free drunk. Trivia: giving blood in the military and getting the afternoon off was called "Vampire Liberty".”