contest in which men slap each other with a dead eel has been banned on health and taste grounds after just one complaint. Conger Cuddling is a kind of human skittles which has raised thousands for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute. Rival teams knock each other off small boxes by battering them with a 5ft conger swinging from a rope. But locals are furious after RNLI chiefs had to axe this year’s event over the single protest. The killjoy protestor claimed it was disrespectful to dead animals. Richard Fox, 67, who invented the sport 32 years ago, fumed: “It’s the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard. How can you be disrespecting an animal’s rights when it is dead?” The Sun 29/7/06.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Don't do the conger
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contest in which men slap each other with a dead eel has been banned on health and taste grounds after just one complaint. Conger Cuddling is a kind of human skittles which has raised thousands for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute. Rival teams knock each other off small boxes by battering them with a 5ft conger swinging from a rope. But locals are furious after RNLI chiefs had to axe this year’s event over the single protest. The killjoy protestor claimed it was disrespectful to dead animals. Richard Fox, 67, who invented the sport 32 years ago, fumed: “It’s the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard. How can you be disrespecting an animal’s rights when it is dead?” The Sun 29/7/06.
contest in which men slap each other with a dead eel has been banned on health and taste grounds after just one complaint. Conger Cuddling is a kind of human skittles which has raised thousands for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute. Rival teams knock each other off small boxes by battering them with a 5ft conger swinging from a rope. But locals are furious after RNLI chiefs had to axe this year’s event over the single protest. The killjoy protestor claimed it was disrespectful to dead animals. Richard Fox, 67, who invented the sport 32 years ago, fumed: “It’s the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard. How can you be disrespecting an animal’s rights when it is dead?” The Sun 29/7/06.
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