LONDON (Reuters) - An English fishing town has banned the sport of conger cuddling after an animal activist complained. The tradition, once described as the most fun a person could have with a dead fish, involves one team trying to hit another with a conger eel tied to a rope.
But the sport has now been banned after an animal rights activist complained that it was "disrespectful" to dead fish and threatened to campaign against the event. "The RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) were worried that it might show them up in a bad light," Rob Michael, chairman of the town's lifeboat guild, told Reuters on Saturday. Under the rules of conger cuddling, contestants stand on small wooden blocks as if they were skittles. Members of a second team then swing a dead conger eel attached to a piece of rope at the group in a bid to knock them off. The team with the last person standing wins. Conger eels can grow to more than three metres (10 feet).
A few thoughts:
* Disrepectful to dead fish??? Ahh Shut up, & put a helmet on!
* I can't beleive there is such a thing as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. (Sounds like about 4 overweight fishermen sitting around drinking British Ale and cursing the Motherland).
* Why can't Americans come up with fun games like Conger cuddling?
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Ridiculous, man.
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