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  • Colorado Town Marks 'Frozen Dead Guy Days' (Still not as ridiculous as the UN)

    03/11/2003 5:21:33 PM PST · by wimpycat · 10 replies · 231+ views
    Celebration Includes Parade, Lookalike Contest NEDERLAND, Colo. -- Nederland celebrated the second annual "Frozen Dead Guy Days" over the weekend. For the second year, residents of this town near Boulder honored an 89-year-old Norwegian man who was cryogenically frozen after his death in 1989 and stored in a shed in town. Local officials tried to stop the experiment. But once they figured out there wasn't much they could do, residents decided to make it the focus of a winter festival. Saturday, a slow-moving parade complete with the shed and a grim reaper passed through town. Then, there were coffin races...