Sunday, July 30, 2006

Let's not do the conger

A madcap contest in which men slap each other with a dead eel has been banned — 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.

The killjoy protestor claimed it was disrespectful to dead animals.

The contest will go ahead in the fishing town using a rubber buoy instead of the eel.

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