Saturday, September 29, 2012

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

There is so much evil and stupidity in the world, sometimes it is therapeutic, uplifting even, to examine the nobler pursuits of man; like the annual North American Wife Carrying Championship in Newry, Maine.

Yes, not only is this a real event, it's an international sport and part of the World Alternative Games. The object of the event is to carry your wife through a challenging open field course with plenty of mud, muck and water hazards.

The origin of the sport was apparently inspired by the Finnish wife-carrying tradition and a 19th century character named Herkko Rosvo-Rankainen, who--as folklore has it --chose people for his marauding band of thieves based on how well they could carry wives away from the villages they plundered.

The modern day version includes only willing participants, and the women don't even have to be married. To compete teams must be comprised of a man and a woman and be 21 years or older. The rules even allow for the woman to carry the man in case he gets exhausted.

The best part of this heroic endeavor is that the winner, in addition to a cash prize, wins his wife's weight in beer. Now that is what I call a relationship-building exercise.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Bizarre October Holidays --*
October 1 is World Vegetarian Day and Magic Circles Day
October 2 is Name Your Car Day
October 3 is Virus Appreciation Day
October 4 is National Golf Day
October 5 is National Storytelling Festival
October 6 is German-American Day and Come and Take It Day
October 7 is National Frappe Day
October 8 is American Tag Day
October 9 is Moldy Cheese Day
October 10 is National Angel Food Cake Day

(More 'Bizarre October Holidays' Next Issue)


*-- Former prison for sale in Pa. --*
EBENSBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania municipality is seeking a buyer or tenant for a unique property -- the former county prison. The Ebensburg Borough Council said the back portion of the facility, which is newer than the front, is being used to house county records, but the front portion, which was the original Cambria County Prison, has been vacant for 15 years, WJAC-TV, Johnstown, Pa., reported Thursday. "If it wasn't the landmark that it is in town, if it wasn't on the national list of historic places, we still couldn't tear it down," Ebensburg Borough Manager Dan Penatzer said. "I think it's probably impossible to tear this building down." He said there are many different potential uses for the building. "A restaurant, a microbrewery, retail, offices, anything," Penatzer said. "There's so much crazy character about this building that could apply it to any business theme like that. I think there's a lot of possibilities."


*-- Man had friend serve his prison sentence --*
GOTHENBURG, Sweden - Swedish authorities said an international arrest warrant has been issued for a man who had a friend pose as him to avoid a prison term. Police said the 37-year-old Gothenburg man was sentenced to one year in prison in January 2008 after being convicted of charges including copyright infringement, breaking Swedish medical laws and handling smuggled goods, the Swedish news agency TT reported Thursday. However, the man was not held in remand in between being sentenced and the start of his prison term, and police said during that time he convinced a friend to serve the sentence for him. Investigators said the convict took out a driver's license bearing his own name and the picture of his friend to carry out the identity swap. Police said the other man had served the majority of the sentence by the time the ruse was discovered. The man was set free. "We were the victims of advanced con," said Ulf Jonson of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. Police said an international arrest warrant has been issued for the convict, who is believed to have fled to the Philippines.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Hi Lewis, You might like to include this story in Bizarre News: This London butcher is selling fake human meat! Cheers, Carolyn
[Is it made out of rubber and shaped like a penis? Because there are places in the U.S. that sell that, too.]

Lewis, I would think beer would be a little frothy for an an enema.
[These are college kids. What do you think they are using, Cristal?]

ONLY YOU AND TZ WOULD LIKE SPARKLING BUBBLES UP THERE! -DOC

Have u ever seen the show '1000 ways to Die'? there was this guy who couldn't do alcohol regularly because of some problem, and had his wife do alcohol enemas on him. -Anna
[And let me guess, he died?]

Hey Lewis, I remember reading about this incident a few months ago although some details were a bit different. The unfortunate recipients of the enemas were female, it was not placed in the backside but rather in the vagina, and they were using tampons soaked in vodka. Effective but very dangerous. Besides, imagine if a guy went down on her... Mark
[You probably read it in Bizarre News...and I can think of worse reasons to go down on a woman.]

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