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05-28-2009, 12:09 PM #11Pogonotomy rules
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2009 cheese rolling comp
Gareth (Galopede) -- this one's for you. This year's Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling competition which happened only a few days ago. Look at those people fly! There are broken bones, idiots being stretchered off by the ambulance crew, and - best of all - a rugby team at the bottom to bring you to a halt by rugby tackling you as you reach your peak speed. Man, I love this country sometimes.
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Originally Posted by majurey
Gareth (Galopede) -- this one's for you. This year's Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling competition which happened only a few days ago. Look at those people fly! There are broken bones, idiots being stretchered off by the ambulance crew, and - best of all - a rugby team at the bottom to bring you to a halt by rugby tackling you as you reach your peak speed. Man, I love this country sometimes.
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This year's Cheeserolling came off quite lightly actually. This from the local rag:
The bone-crunching races saw 58 casualties and 11 people were taken to hospital in ambulances.
Thirty five were competitors, four were catchers at the bottom of the hill and 19 spectators.
Their injuries included two spinal and a dislocated shoulder.
One member of the crowd fell out of a tree while trying to gain a better vantage point caused the final two runs of the day to be delayed.
Makes you proud to be British!
Gareth
) the organisers would have had their (bruised) butts sued off, as well as participants who caused injuries to others through falling. Actually, I'm surprised our bonkers attitude to 'Health & Safety' (aka Killjoy Law) hasn't outlawed this yet. There may not be many more years of this to come!
