by Inga » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:46 pm
"The Worst Hammer Throwing
At an athletics event in the north-east of England during 1952 a hammer thrower broke all known records. With a superhuman effort he swirled and let go of the hammer which flew out the enclosure, smashed on to the bonnet of his own Triumph Spitfire that he had arranged to sell that night, before bouncing off through the window of the athletics office and knocking out the regional organiser for hammer throwing who had been called away to telephone his wife. At previous events he had hit an Esso petrol station, a police car and the Gents, from which a cowering spectator emerged with the belief that he had been struck by lightning."
-Steven Pile