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

...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...

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

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.

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

"Taxi!"

TeeCee

"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.""

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.

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