Caddies Protest Threat Over Being Too Fat

AP/Yahoo ^ | Wed Oct 13, 5:47 PM ET

[martin_fierro]

Strange News - AP

Caddies Protest Threat Over Being Too Fat

Wed Oct 13, 5:47 PM ET

BANGKOK, Thailand - More than 400 caddies from a renowned Thai golf course rallied at the Labor Ministry on Wednesday to protest an alleged threat by their manager to fire them for being "too fat, short and old."

The manager of the Pinehurst Golf Course — where Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his Cabinet play regularly — ordered overweight caddies to lose at least 11 pounds within two weeks or face dismissal, said one caddy, who identified herself only as Umporn.

The unidentified manager "told us during a meeting last week that the bosses (golfers) do not want old, fat and short caddies anymore," Umporn told reporters.

"We can manage to lose weight, but what can we do about being short and old?" asked Umporn, who claimed the manager had said that new caddies must be slim and have a height of at least 5 feet, 5 inches.

She said the current caddies were better on the course than any younger, less experienced workers the Pinehurst managers might recruit.

The protesters shouted: "Fat, short and old can work better than slender and beautiful!"

Officials at the golf course were not immediately available for comment.

[martin_fierro]

These considerations sure didn't keep Hugh Rodham from carrying Slick's balls.

[escapefromboston]

obligatory caddyshack joke:

So we finish 18 and he's gonna stiff me and I say: 'Hey Lama, hey how about a little something, you know, for the effort?!' And he says: 'There'll be no money, but when you die, on your deathbed you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that going for me, which is nice."

-now back to your regularly scheduled posts