Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Gloucester Cheese Rolling!



From a perpetrator's YouTube blurb:

"Every year daring competitors throw themselves down an almost vertical hill in Gloucester, UK, chasing an 8lb Double Gloucester Cheese. It can never really be caught as it reaches breakneck speeds but the first person to cross the line at the bottom of the hill wins the cheese. Thousands of spectators turn out for the event each year and, unsurprisingly, there are usually a good few injuries. Thankfully St John's Ambulances are on hand to whisk the casualties away to the local hospital."


Should these roguish nutters get their cheese permits revoked? And by revoked, I mean re-affirmed :-) Bonkers -- yet awesome! :-D

5 comments:

Chiv said...

those guys love themselves some cheese!

Chiv said...

Cheese = high in calcium
Cheese rolling = broken bones
Bone density = diet high in calcium

Creatures of irony are we.

journeyinfinite said...

I think you can hear the hill screaming ;-)

Chiv said...

I wouldn't throw myself down the hill. I would however throw my cheeseburger in a can down the hill.

journeyinfinite said...

ha HA! Well played, sir!