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Comments on: Finns dominate mobile-chucking contest

Disappointed to see... 

Posted Tuesday 28th August 2007 12:16 GMT

That La Campbell herself was not participating. You'd think she'd be a natural, all the practice she gets...

Meanwhile, here in Britain.... 

Posted Tuesday 28th August 2007 12:48 GMT

....we had the Bog Snorkelling competition yesterday, where a new world record was also set.

Well, it is a Finnish sport... 

Posted Tuesday 28th August 2007 12:49 GMT

...along with swamp football, snow football, wife-carrying and sauna-sitting competitions, to name only the most well-known. As well as the annual kissing competition somewhere north of Tampere. When it comes to weird sports, the Finns are up there with the best of them...

Important details 

Posted Tuesday 28th August 2007 12:59 GMT

As usual, the important details are excluded: make/model of the phone? Battery included? Did the phone work afterwards?

As a variation, they could send themselves a text message just before chucking the phone and see whether it arrives before the phone lands.

Freestyle 

Posted Tuesday 28th August 2007 13:30 GMT

Being in Finland, I'm surprised that the Freestyle winner wasn't juggling / throwing flaming Nokias...

"Taxi!"

TeeCee

still not as far as foxy... 

Posted Tuesday 28th August 2007 13:56 GMT

"The distance travelled by a tantrum-driven flying PDA shall be defined in Campbells (1cB=231lg). Example: "Yeah, I asked that Foxy Brown to turn her car stereo down and she only went and threw her bleedin' Blackberry about three Campbells.""

Extreme sports 

Posted Tuesday 28th August 2007 20:42 GMT

Oh, come on folks. I bet it`s nowhere as exciting as the sport of "extreme ironing".

http://www.extremeironing.com

This is where the men are men and the sheep are scared.

I suppose this is expected.... 

Posted Wednesday 29th August 2007 03:23 GMT

But why wasn't Russell Crow issued with a "wild card" entry into this comp... he woulda been the champ !