Cooper's Hill is outside the village of Brockworth in Gloucestershire. Every year for 200 years the locals have held a cheese-rolling contest, when a 7lb wheel of Double Gloucester cheese is rolled down the very steep hill, chased by dozens of strong and frankly lunatic young men and watched by cheering hundreds. This year "health and safety fears" caused the contest to be banned.
However, the people of Brockworth were not going to take this lying down. The ban was defied and the event went ahead as usual, in spite of official efforts to stop it happening.
How many people were injured, I don't know. Judging by past years there were probably several injuries of varying severity, but at least they knew what they were doing and took the risk for a bit of fun and frivolity, all too sadly lacking these days. Well done, lads!
So long as folk are aware of the risks, get on with it !
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