Winners battle cold, boredom in Swedish ice-sitting contest
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Six contestants have braved butt-numbing cold and boredom to win an annual ice pole-sitting contest in northern Sweden.
Two women and four men shared the 20,000-kronor prize ($3,100) for remaining on 8.25-foot-tall (2.5-meter) blocks of ice during the 48-hour contest, which ended Saturday.
Competitors said the worst part of the competition was not the cold - temperatures dipped below -18 F (-28 C) - but the monotony, even though they were allowed to come down for 10-minute toilet breaks every other hour.
Organizer Annica Andersson said the contest has been held annually for a dozen years, and was brought to the Swedish town of Vilhelmnina by a local resident who had participated in a similar competition in Russia.
Two women and four men shared the 20,000-kronor prize ($3,100) for remaining on 8.25-foot-tall (2.5-meter) blocks of ice during the 48-hour contest, which ended Saturday.
Competitors said the worst part of the competition was not the cold - temperatures dipped below -18 F (-28 C) - but the monotony, even though they were allowed to come down for 10-minute toilet breaks every other hour.
Organizer Annica Andersson said the contest has been held annually for a dozen years, and was brought to the Swedish town of Vilhelmnina by a local resident who had participated in a similar competition in Russia.
You can Allways tell a Swede. You just can't tell him much!
Well, that's certainly one way to freeze your a*s off.
I remember years ago there was a news story where there was an ice sitting contest
by Cheer Leaders at a High School for charity. Some bad boys slipped in some dry Ice
and the girls got frost bite on sensitive parts of their anatomy.
Here is the bacon dress story for our weekend entertainment:
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Let the "pork her" comments begin......
 @WendyTeagarden Were you going to have a cup of coffee with that?
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 @Kushfan  @WendyTeagarden Okay that is just warped.
@Kushfan I don't think I will be opening that link. Thank you very much.
I'll wait to get all the "poop" first hand when I go over there this summer.
@WendyTeagarden Hopefully that information won't be Mind Numbing.
Can one really walk to the toilets with a frozen bottom???
Perhaps they crawl.
@WendyTeagarden Gives a hole new meaning to ice hole
@Pvpbw --- funny!
@The Resistance ...not if you're a girl......