Dangerous cheeses!

Mike Weaver pic at gn.apc.org
Tue May 27 20:26:53 CDT 1997


>From today's Grauniad (UK in joke, The Guardian newspaper,
  reknowned for its typesetting mistakes)

Title: 18 injured at cheese races.
>At least 18 people were injured yesterday as the Cooper's
>Hill cheese rolling competition attracted record crowds in 
>Gloucestershire.  Seven of the casualities were spectators
>watching the races down the one-in two hill near Gloucester.
> One man in the crowd, who tried to avoid a bouncing Double
> Gloucester cheese as it went off course, lost his balance and
> fell about 100 feet down the hillside. <snip> 
> One of the winners of the four races, Craig Carter, aged 21,
>a postman ... broke his left arm  as he tumbled down the hill.
>About 4,000 people turned up to watch the annual event.

Numbers swollen by M&D readers perchance?

Mike
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