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Finland Hosts Mobile Phone Throwing Championships
hypnosec writes "In this year's annual mobile-phone throwing contest held in Finland Ere Karjalainen has smashed the world record by throwing his phone 101.46 meters. The event, being held every year since 2000 in the town of Savonlinna, saw quite a few mobile-phone throwers participate. 2nd place went to Jeremy Gallop, a South African who managed to throw his phone 94.67 meters. Contest organizers are of the opinion that users can vent their anger on their phones and that this offers a unique opportunity to 'pay back all the frustrations and disappointments caused by this modern equipment.'"
Someone should cross breed this with pumpkin chunkin. The main category should be limited to being propelled by only the energy stored in the phones' battery.
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They're the ones with the oddball "sports".
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They finally found a use for all those Nokia Windows Phones.
Ere Karjalainen said that he is normally an iOS man but preferred the aerodynamics of the new Android phones for throwing. The exception being any iPhone running AT&T which are universally accepted as the best for throwing.
One last niche market for Nokia to fill. And it's local, too!
Nice photo gallery too (but no mentions on the phone brands!)
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Finn National Frustration Venting? Given that this is held in Finland, may be the expression the populace's frustration at its onetime darling Nokia throwing away the mobile phone market. Actually, I think I just invented a new word in honor of this event and Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop:
WEEE*lop. the act of needlessly throwing away a Nokia
Publicity Stunt? Could be a last-ditch effort by the country to allow Nokia to claim to still be best at something, as its "dumbphones" would probably be the only ones to survive the competition.
Finland, home of the Nokia 3310. I hope all the nearby buildings were insured.
from outerspace as well??
Hey, it's all in how you spin it!
With this attitude, how do you defend the cost of the electricity used by your computer while posting this comment? That resource could have gone to feeding a starving child somewhere. Even worse, how do you defend the time you spent writing that comment when that time could instead have gone to making money in order to feed starving children? By your own standard you are yourself despicable and so is every other person in the world. I agree that feeding starving children is a worthwhile goal, but I don't know that your perspective on the whole thing is very useful here.
On another note, flooding third world markets with free food is a disaster for the farmers in those regions who then can't sell their food and then there will be even less food grown in that region the next year. If the problem was as easy to solve as throwing some tomatoes at the third world, we'd have solved the problem completely by now because that is a very manageable proposition, but of course it isn't that easy.
There's no chance that the skinny kid in the video threw his phone 102 meters. That's the length of a football field. Or the distance from home plate to the (nearest part of the) outfield wall. I just don't see that happening using a cell phone...
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if all you seek to do is feed them, the starving children will just become starving adults.
If a Samsung phone did end up winning, Apple might sue and argue that this was due to Apple's patented rounded corners being the most aerodynamically efficient design.
Most people on Slashdot are fucking idiots.
Throwing most phones results in drag due to the device being constantly bombarded by signals from the carrier cellular tower.
The AT&T phones are mercifully free of such drag, and as a result can fly much further.
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Starving adults with many starving children.
JavaScript white list, you'll thank me later.
And he threw it 17 metres farther than the throw that brought a gold medal in the javelin event at the London Olympics.
Why not convert the starving children into food?
Kid-proof tablet..
Perfectly usable cellphones that could have found better usage in third world countries are being destroyed, just for the fun of it
Given that this is in Finland, they are probably Nokia phones... (post Microsoft acquisition, the N900 actually was a great machine...)
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If the problem was as easy to solve as throwing some tomatoes at the third world
Well maybe someone needs to organize a competition where we throw tomatoes at poor and hungry people.
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I believe it was Jesus that said:
"If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. If you don't, then there will be more fish for you tomorrow."
Or something like that.
- Holy crap, I've got MOD points! Who thought that was a good idea.