Sledging

Posted by Skytower on Thu January 14, 2010

Nope, not that sort. Nor the cricketing sort, for once – and given the performance turned out today by the England team, it’s probably best to move on anyway.

Instead, two interesting, if unusual, examples of people’s enjoyment of the recent snow. All I will say is… hasn’t it bloody melted yet? Go away, you evil bastard white stuff…

Exhibit 1: Riot police in Oxford make novel use of their riot shields, in using them to slide down a hill. The footage was captured, and stuck on YouTube for all to see – and seemingly approve, it seems. Except for, that is, their superintendent. Maybe they should have stuck to snowballing each other. (PS: if you click the linky, you get to see footage of them in action…)

Exhibit 2: From the “not the most intelligent move in the world” file (i.e. pretty fucking stupid) comes the 4×4 owner who decided that his kids were possibly too good to slide down a hill, and instead tied the sledge to the back of their vehicle. Then again, it was in Mansfield. I’ve lived there, and anything is possible.

Supposedly, the temperatures will rise to a meteoric +3 degrees celsius tomorrow. There’s a slim chance we might actually rediscover what the roads and pavements look like…