Tourist’s order of ‘grenade’ drink sparks bomb alert in Lisbon restaurant

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A tourist who wanted a pomegranate drink at a restaurant in Lisbon, Portugal last Friday got more than what he asked for because of a translation error. The 36-year-old Russian speaker from Azerbaijan used a language app on his phone to translate the Russian word for...

A tourist who wanted a pomegranate drink at a restaurant in Lisbon, Portugal last Friday got more than what he asked for because of a translation error.

In the Russian language, the words “pomegranate” and “grenade” are the same, said the report, citing Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha. The tourist wrote his order, which was read by a waiter who thought that he had a grenade and called the police.Portuguese town ‘flooded’ with 2.2 million litres of red wine after distillery tanks explode

 

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