Pranksters are flogging an old Irn-Bru bottle filled with dirty river water for £75 on eBay - telling prospective punters to ‘feel better this year’ by drinking it.
The mystery seller hyped the water, taken from the Water of Leith, in Edinburgh, as ‘crisp, refreshing and natural’ after warning people about the dangers of tap water.
The Water of Leith is notorious for being a dumping ground for supermarket trolleys, rubbish, and plastic pollution with the impact on wildlife a constant concern.
There are five ‘watchers’ on the 750ml bottle of water which will cost £10 to post.
A pseudo-scientific ad appeared to mock the tone of posh bottled water brands, and boasted the river water was ‘completely raw and unpasteurised’ and filled with ‘micro-organisms’.
It described the glass Irn-Bru bottle as ‘found art’.
The listing said: “Crisp and refreshing natural water, from Edinburgh’s beautiful ‘Water of Leith’. This natural water is in a 750ml ‘found art’ glass bottle, originally manufactured in Scotland.
“All the micro-organisms that nature intended. Completely raw, and unpasteurised. We are all worried about the water that comes from the tap.
"Who knows what is in it? Tap water has probably been linked to lots of problems in in-vitro studies, and possibly in rodents.
“It might have flouride in it, and all sorts of other things, that you might not want.
"Feel better this year. Try some natural unpasteurised water, full of all the micro-organisms that nature intended for the water to have in it.”
