Well it finally happened

[Ranger99]

I buy jugs of distilled water for tea
and coffee.  I have several sitting
here at any one time, and I picked
one up to make some coffee, and
there's a hypodermic needle hole
in the top part by the spout where
I barely noticed it. Now, I have had
jugs of water and milk and plastic
cold drink bottles get busted or
punctured transporting from the
store, but it's always on the side
or bottom. This was obviously
deliberate, and obviously a
needle hole

Somebody that contaminates
food or drink or medicine, anything
that we consume needs the
death penalty

[mcbammer]

 If it were me i'd throw it out , especially this day & time . no since in taking a risk over a dollar jug of water .

[Ranger99]

Taking it back to the store
Monday to show to the manager
and exchange it. I don't go
places like that on weekends
anymore

[Mule 11]

Buy a berkey, it will pay for itself in the long run...
Plus, distilled water has all the minerals removed which you need. It takes a while to get used to the mineral taste in the purified water. I no longer notice it and love my berkey filtered water.

[Dixie-Dude]

I use a water filter pitcher.  We also use it for making coffee and tea.  We do use it for humidifiers in our bedroom on very dry days.  It makes each of the machines last longer by not getting corrosion in them. 

As much as you spend on water, the pitchers with filters would probably cost the same. 

I have a salt water pool.  Out of curiosity, we ran some pool water through one, then tasted of it.  The salt and chlorine were gone.  This pitcher came with a purity tester and either the filter gets clogged and will not filter the water or when the impurities get too high for our comfort.  Our normal tap water has not only chlorine but fluoride in it.  Then you have cast iron water mains that get rusty and copper service lines to the house.  So traces of iron and copper are also there. 

[Ranger99]

Yeah,  I have a filter pitcher, and
a camping/survival water filter
for creek water, etc.
This is more like - something was
deliberately poked into the jug.
What was in/on it?
Was something injected in the water?
Did the hypodermic owner have an
infectious disease?
Was poison injected into the water?
Was anything injected, or was it done
as a sick joke?

That's what concerns me.
Water filters don't always remove
all foul substances from water.
A bottle or jug of water from the
store is supposed to be assumed
to be pure and uncontaminated,
just as if you park your car in the
driveway at your house that it's
supposed to be left alone and not
messed with, just as when you
lock your doors and windows at
night and lay down in your bed
you're supposed to be safe and
secure from any harm that may
befall you

I'm unhappy with the idiot pinhead
loser that messed with my water.
Other issues I can deal with.
A person did that, and I won't
allow someone to enable them
and make excuses for them.
If I'd did that as a kid when my
daddy was alive, he'd have beat
me half to death and made me
pay for the water, and rightly so

[ironglow]

My water is fine, except for an over abundance of lime. For most uses, I use the tap water, since I want the minerals which are available.
   My Keurig builds up lime, so I bring jugs of water from my son's house, since he has a conditioner, and among other things it removes the lime.

    Meanwhile, here's a chuckle for those who pay big bucks for fancy water..

[Bob Riebe]

Here we also have heavy lime in the water so I buy distilled or other bottled water often so I do not have to clean the coffee machine as often.
Before I did that a coffee maker would last on average three years.

Often I transfer water from plastic bottles to glass bottles with a hinged stopper that I get with sparkling beverages.
Bottled sparkling water used to come in glass bottles but now more and more also come in plastic bottles.