Dispensary Corner 14 Oct 11
October 14, 2011
YOU’LL never get fit riding the bus.
The third place winner of the
Kielder Marathon in North East
England suffered an embarrassing
blow this month, after authorities
stripped him of his medal for
catching the bus.
According to reports, Rob Sloan
originally took third place after
finishing the grueling marathon in
just two hours and fifty-one
minutes.
His victory however began to
sour when fellow runners raised
questions as to his whereabouts
during portions of the race.
Initially Sloan vigorously
defended his honour calling the
allegations “laughable”.
When he heard there was to be
an investigation he told organisers
that he got on a bus at the 32km
mark, because he “felt tired”.
Sloan managed to get dropped
off near a wooded area close to
the finish line.
Witnesses say they observed
him hiding behind a tree and
watching as the first and second
place runners crossed the line,
then emerged to run across in
third place.
PHARMACIES may need to order coat racks to stock this. An inventive NZ designer has created the world’s first breathalyser jacket, which lets wearers know when they have had too much alcohol. The jacket contains a nozzle in its collar which wearers can blow into, and which then carries the air to a sensor in the jacket’s pocket for breath/alcohol analysis. From here, the results are sent to lights stitched into the jacket’s forearm which get brighter depending on how much alcohol there is in the wearers system. The lights only glow for about a minute.
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