Posted on 05/30/2005 9:37:41 PM PDT by kingattax
LONDON (AP) - Contestants in a traditional British cheese rolling competition broke bones and took skin off knees and elbows Monday in their pursuit of a giant piece of cheese down a steep hill.
The competition, in which participants hurl themselves 640 feet down a hill after an eight-pound piece of cheese, has been celebrated for centuries in Gloucestershire, northwest of London.
The race is thought to originate from a heathen festival to welcome the spring. The first person to follow the cheese across the line at the bottom of the hill wins the cheese and a small cash prize.
Thousands of people attended Monday's event and the local ambulance service reported three people were taken to hospital with suspected fractured limbs, while 18 were treated for bruises and abrasions.
Teenager Chris Anderson, who won one of four cheese rolling races contested Monday, was taken to hospital on a stretcher, clutching his winning slab of cheese to his chest.
"The pain was worth it," Anderson said. "This cheese is going straight in a cupboard when I get home. It's definitely not for eating."
Organizer Richard Jefferies said Monday's event ran smoothly and injuries were down on previous years.
"It's a good part of the local heritage and a tradition we would like to keep going," Jefferies said.
It's as if G-d designed women to have more fun.
I was.
LOL, Laz.
Dang, did you have to move?
Nothing a little limb-burger cheese can't fix.
Just be sure not to land in the Venezuelan Beaver Cheese.
SERVPRO wouldn't come NEAR that mess.
lol...it had to happen
" OK Cheese.. you better talk, or you're gonna FRY, I tell ya..."... Mwa hahahahaha...
And the ambulance drivers have Wednesday off (National Health rules, dontchaknow).
Has a Moose ever Cut the Cheese??"
A moose once bit my sister.
No realli! She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law -an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...
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