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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.'"
They finally found a use for all those Nokia Windows Phones.
Well, they did not invent mobile phones. Besides, Finland was already known for the fine sports of wife carrying and swamp soccer.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
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.
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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