Doubt this will send me to hell
but it was fucking funny, so I thought I'd share

a couple of years back me and some of my amigoes headed to Hay Tor on Dartmoor for some sledging action, it having just snowed properly.

The day was chock full of humourous mishaps, two of which I will now relate to you:

The first involved a group of guys similar in age to me and my friends but where we had old bodyboards, crap plastic sledges and an enormous victorian wood and iron contraption, they had snowboards, state of the art sledges and a large table from a set of plastic patio furniture.

They were just leaving and loaded all their stuff into the table, including themselves, for a graceful descent.

I looked at this, then looked away. Then I looked back.

By this point one was left on the table, holding on for dear life, two were sprawled on their backs sliding slowly down the hill, and one was holding on to the table at arms length, being dragged along on his face as they careened down the slope.

The second story is much funnier, and a little more shaming for laughing at.

By the time we arrived so many people had slid down the hill that it had pretty much turned into hard packed ice.

We saw a young boy, must have been about 8-10 mincing across the slope to get to his father (I assume)

Slipperiness being inherent in the properties of ice he slipped and fell to the ground, seemingly hitting his head.

We watched for a moment when, like a bat out of hell, a guy riding an enormous Boddington's sign flew down the hill and bailed at the last minute, leaving this big sign to hit and wrap itself round the kid at high speed.

A lot of people rushed to see if the, now unmoving, kid was ok.

Me and my mates? For our part we collapsed to the floor in gales of laughter...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 9:50, 3 replies)

If it was just the "arch" bit of the boddingtons logo
it'd be like pre-teen Hoopla!
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 12:16, closed)

it was the whole thing
the sign was about 6ft by 8ft and made from a heavy duty version of the stuff that estate agent saleboards are made of
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 12:46, closed)

Are you...
..from the Glory Bay?

I've heard this story before, and I suspect I know you...
(inflateable, Tue 16 Dec 2008, 21:55, closed)