A wife carrying contest recently took place at Hereford Racecourse, in England. The fifty metres race was part of the annual Beer and Cider Day. The rules state that the wife may be carried anyway at all, upside down, in a fireman’s lift, or even piggy back style.
The winning couple had a combined weight of 336 pounds and they won their own weight in beer. How much beer is that? It is certainly a lot.
The lady winner commented: ‘I was terrified that he was going to drop me, but he didn’t’. Their chosen position was piggy back style and she just kept urging him on. It certainly paid off in the end.
Well, I do know that a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter (back to basic junior school science) so let’s assume that beer weighs about the same. So that’s um....268.8 pints, or 33.6 gallons, according to my calculations.
Unless you know better, of course.
More on this story: Telegraph 
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