Monday, July 27, 2009

J0usting match turns painful f0r Vt. may0r (AP)

BARRE, Vt. – A Vermont politician who united in recreation to a jousting correct with padded sticks and helmets ended up in the crisis shack after he poor whatever ribs.

Sunday's battle at a festivity in Barre was a modern-day re-enactment of a unreal mitt fisticuffs over the city's naming. Mayor saint Lauzon and Jeff Blow, chair of the town's selectboard, teetered on padded pedestals in the region of a anulus as they wielded their jousting sticks.

The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus reports Blow toppled Lauzon in inferior than 15 seconds and the politician returned the souvenir with a below-the-belt thrust.

In a determining ordinal match, Lauzon poor his ribs when he lunged toward Blow and slammed into his pedestal. The mayor's wife, Karenic Lauzon, said weekday he's OK.

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Information from: The Times Argus, http://www.timesargus.com/


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