they did not believe this mans story , not because it was beyond the realms of belief ( after all , even the most educated people in monrovia believed that a bucket of human blood had been discovered under taylors bed in a recent house raid by a nigerian battalion of ecomog ) but because last week , while working on a late shift , its storyteller drank too much palm wine , began raising his voice around midnight , woke some irate residents , and got some of the other night guards into hot water the following day .