Couples race through mud for wife's weight in beer and cash
NEWRY, Maine (AP) - A Finnish couple has added to their victories by taking first place in the North American Wife Carrying Championship at Maine's Sunday River ski resort.
Taisto Miettinen and Kristina Haapanen traveled from Helsinki, Finland - where they won the World Wife Carrying Championship - for Saturday's contest.
The Sun Journal reports that the couple finished with a time of 52.58 seconds on a course that includes hurdles, sand traps and a water hole.
The winners receive the woman's weight in beer and five times her weight in cash.
For Miettinen and Haapanen, that meant a check for $530. They shared their beer winnings with the second- and third- place finishers - Jesse Wall and Christine Arsenault of South Paris and David and Lacey Castro of Lewiston.
Taisto Miettinen and Kristina Haapanen traveled from Helsinki, Finland - where they won the World Wife Carrying Championship - for Saturday's contest.
The Sun Journal reports that the couple finished with a time of 52.58 seconds on a course that includes hurdles, sand traps and a water hole.
The winners receive the woman's weight in beer and five times her weight in cash.
For Miettinen and Haapanen, that meant a check for $530. They shared their beer winnings with the second- and third- place finishers - Jesse Wall and Christine Arsenault of South Paris and David and Lacey Castro of Lewiston.
No way a woman is going to admit how much beer she won.
@Kushfan She gets the cash, he gets the beer.
Yeah, that sounds like fun. Fun for him, degrading for her.
 @theobserver what part of beer and cash did you miss??? Beer for him, cash for her...
Gotta just love the way that the women get the mud kicked up into their face.....NOT!
 @WendyTeagarden Oh come on Wen, where is your sense of adventure.....
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@beernpizza see below
Just for you Wendy. It's Florida, and it's probably the Darwin Award Winner.
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@Kushfan   Well, it is Flori-duh
What is this? Beer and no Pizza.......the travesty of it all....
 @phastphx Never fear, beernpizza is always in the house!
 @phastphx I'm with ya Phast....I'm with ya....the whole thing is a travershamockery.....
Could be worse. It could be this beer.
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@Kushfan reminds me of "Temple Grandin"
 @Kushfan Kush, you just had to go there dintcha....damn buzzkill....
@phastphx Plus what the heck are the doing in the picture, she's supposed to be on the other side, nobody 96s ;-)
AFH, how many whack jobs cancelled their subscriptions because of the Penzone endorsement?
@WendyTeagarden I'm sure the entire population of Sun City and Sun City West, plus Leisure World, aka Seizure World. But next time they are in Fry's they'll take the special and sign back up to get the coupons, it's a crazy cycle
 @AmFromHere  @phastphx a meal including beans, cauliflower or broccoli is not encouraged here....
@AmFromHere Just think, if you carry me I can show you how it's done AND you may get to win my weight in beer.