The Modern Olympics

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
03/04/2009 10:14

The increasing ranks of the unemployed in America today aren't just sitting around the house feeling sorry for themselves. A group of the recently job-deprived gathered in New York City's East Village Tuesday for an event described as the Unemployment Olympics.

Rather than a multimillion-dollar stadium, the inaugural jobless games took place in an appropriately low-budget concrete playground decorated with hand-painted cardboard signs.

Events included "Pin the Blame on the Boss," a dash to the "unemployment office" and a version of Skee-ball in which participants tossed an office phone at targets. A planned competition to see who could throw a fax machine the farthest was sadly canceled at the last minute due to safety concerns