Unable To Leap A Tomato In A Single Bound
Honestly, we are amazed at how real life is actually stranger than fiction. The Lord-Mayor of Belfast, prompted by photographers at a food festival, attempted to leap over a tomato. Unfortunately, this did not end well for the tomato. She suffered a slipped disk.
The Lord-Mayor of Belfast was left rather red-faced when he tried to leapfrog a colleague, who was dressed as a tomato - but ended up squashing her.
Jim Rodgers was asked to perform the athletic feat to promote a food festival.
At first he expressed doubt as to whether he was agile enough - but the grey-haired Lord Mayor gave it a go anyway.
He took a dep breath and a running leap, hoping to clear the head of Belfast City council worker Lorraine Mallon, who was wearing the tomato costume.
But the Ulster Unionist councillor caught Ms Mallon on the back of the neck with his leg.
She suffered a slipped disc and has been unable to return to work since the accident on September 4.
Superman he ain't. (They have a picture at the link apparently taken just before impact.)
World news | Gaius Thursday, 4 October , 2007
By NortonPete, Thursday, 4 October , 2007 @ 12:13 pm
Being of Irish decent this kind of foolishness does not surprise me.
I bet alcohol might have been the power that propelled the mayor.