The strangest halakha TB Avodah Zarah 60

The Mishna on today’s daf TB Avodah Zarah 60 is the source for the law when a pagan unintentionally touches the wine. We have learned previously this wine is unlike stam yanum which is prohibited to drink and to drive benefit from. This wine is only prohibited to a Jew to drink, but he may drive benefit from it i.e. sell it to other non-Jews. “If a gentile fell into the wine collection vat and emerged from it, or if he measured the wine in the winepress with a pole without touching it with his hands, or if he cast a hornet out of the wine by means of a pole and the pole touched the wine, or where the gentile was removing the foam that was on the top of a fermenting barrel of wine; with regard to all these cases there was such an incident. And the Sages said that the wine may be sold to gentiles, as it is permitted to derive benefit from the wine, but not to drink it.” (Sefaria.org translation)

Rav Pappa has to present the strangest halakha ever. “The mishna teaches that if a gentile fell into the wine collection vat and emerged, it is not prohibited to derive benefit from the wine. Rav Pappa says: The Sages taught this halakha only in a case where the gentile emerged from the vat dead. But if he emerged alive, the wine is prohibited. The Gemara asks: What is the reason that the wine is prohibited? Rav Pappa said: Since the gentile was rescued from death, he considers that day like their festival day, and he offers the wine as an idolatrous libation in thanksgiving.” (Sefaria.org translation)

I can imagine anybody wanting to buy the wine from which a dead person is fished out. But this example reminded me of the classic Smothers Brother’s routine Chocolate. Here’s the link for your enjoyment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSmqYSVVpTM