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Rafael
PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:17 pm 
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I meant to post this last week, a bit old news. The 2010 Gloucester Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake has been canceled for 2010. The concern wasn't so much the myriad of casualties inevitably caused by chasing a 7# wheel of cheese down a hill where it can reach speeds of over 70mph but rather, potential property damage and group liability insurance (as the event used to be informal but is not skyrocketing in popularity) as well as logistics such as how to direct traffic and parking.

Surely the Japanese have something even crazier?

2009:

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2008:

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Here's an e-mail I sent to a co-worker discussing the topic:

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Last night I was thinking about the 7lb(3.1818kg) cheese wheel reaching 70mph(112kph or 31.111 m/s). I got out some paper and looked up the ballistic performance on some common handgun rounds and I found this out:

The cheese wheel at 70mph has 3079J worth of KE.

At the muzzle, these rounds have the following ballistic energies:

125Gr Hollow Point .357 Magnum: 960J

165Gr JHP(Hollow Point) .40S&W: 656J

185Gr DPX .45 ACP: 644J

115Gr 9x19mm Parabellum, Full Metal Jacket: 570J

That means the Cheese Wheel is several times more powerful than a .357 magnum round (321%) which is considered the gold standard for stopping power in small arms cartridges. It is 474% (for the .40Smith&Wesson and .45ACP) and 540% (for the 9mm) more energetic than the 3 most commonly issued chamberings that Law Enforcement and Military carry for side-arms. And those are the most optimally powerful loadings commonly available for each respective cartridge and based off muzzle velocity where the velocity peaked.

Even if the cheese wheel only one third of its top speed (23.3 mph, pretty easy), it still packs more power than the .357 magnum which has been described by people who have been hit by a round as “being struck by lightning”.

Ouch.

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I've rolled Easter eggs down that hill, but I never made it for the cheese rolling.
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I've rolled myself down a hill, in a tyre... the result was not pretty...
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Rafael wrote:
I meant to post this last week, a bit old news. The 2010 Gloucester Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake has been canceled for 2010. The concern wasn't so much the myriad of casualties inevitably caused by chasing a 7# wheel of cheese down a hill where it can reach speeds of over 70mph but rather, potential property damage and group liability insurance (as the event used to be informal but is not skyrocketing in popularity) as well as logistics such as how to direct traffic and parking.

Surely the Japanese have something even crazier?
{snip}

You mean Onbashira? I thought that was every year, but Wikipedia says it's once every six years. It's the one where they take big freakin' logs down from the mountain:
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The course of the logs goes over rough terrain, and at certain points the logs must be skidded or dropped down steep slopes. Young men prove their bravery by riding the logs down the hill in a ceremony known as "Ki-otoshi."


A few more Joules there, I suspect. :D

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YES, someone described that to me. I heard it's really extreme, like expect fatalities extreme.

Obviously, the Japanese heard someone was doing something weirder than them and took the oneupsmanship to unheard of levels.

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Here's a link to the official (? semi-official, at the least) page for the event. Looks like they plan on picking it up again next year, though.

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Better cancel my plane ticket then.

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Rafael wrote:
YES, someone described that to me. I heard it's really extreme, like expect fatalities extreme.

Obviously, the Japanese heard someone was doing something weirder than them and took the oneupsmanship to unheard of levels.

Yeah, about 1200 years ago, if their local legends are to be believed!

OK, had a chance to look at the videos from home. That's pretty crazy. Quite a few face plants going on there. And it looks like the local rugby team at the bottom doing the catching, which is pretty cool.

It has the panache of drunken revelry in a way only the English can do. The Japanese thing is supposed to be all sacred and stuff, and they're probably all completely sober for it. From what I see on the web, someone died last time (or the time before maybe?).

Don't cancel your plane tickets, Elmo, just reschedule for New Years. Head to Allendale, in Northumberland, for the Tar Barrel Festival:

[youtube]czyTfJ4Io7k[/youtube].

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Not quite as appealing in terms of drunken sods rolling down a hillside, but still quite the spectacle and good debauchery. We were there about 10 years ago.

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