I Smell a Michigan Welfare Program Coming Up!
By Mitch Berg
North Dakota reclaims its rightful place as Snow Angel Capitol of the World:
More than 8,900 people flapped their arms and legs on the state Capitol grounds Saturday in an attempt to reclaim the record, which was snatched away about a year ago in Michigan.
The Guinness Book of Records still must confirm the number. The snow angel category was created in 2002 when 1,791 people made snow angels on the Capitol grounds in North Dakota.
Marilyn Snyder, curator of education for the State Historical Society of North Dakota, said 8,910 people registered for Saturday’s attempt to break the record of 3,784 snow angels set by students at Michigan Technological University in Houghton.“That’s more than 5,000 more people than what Michigan had,” Snyder said. “It’s going to be tough to top.”
Stay out of this, Hewitt…
(Via Red)
February 19th, 2007 at 10:36 am
They got the entire population to show up? Amazing.
February 19th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
To echo Kermit’s point, this is an escalation that North Dakota is bound to lose. The numbers just aren’t there.
February 19th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
I thought the world record was held by Nazi Germany on the fields of Russia.
(As Graham Norton says…don’t bother phoning, we’re sorry already.
February 20th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Were the numbers there when Finland clobbered Russia? When the RAF beat the Luftwaffe? At Thermopylae…
…er, delete that last one.
February 20th, 2007 at 10:57 am
And the first one. While the Finns held the Red Army at bay for a time, when the Russo-Finnish War was over, it wasn’t the Russians making territorial concessions and ceding 10% of their land.
February 20th, 2007 at 11:48 am
the Finns held the Red Army at bay for a time
Yep. And when the snow melts, the “time” is up.
Michigan may be a bigger state, but Houghton ain’t exactly Detroit.
(I presume).
February 20th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Houghton’s population is just over 7,000. I don’t know if any of Michigan Tech’s 6,600 students are counted in that. The entire county has only 35,000, so it will be tough to beat the N. Dakota mark.
The snow angel event is part of Michigan Tech’s winter carnival, along with an ice sculpture contest and a massive broomball tournament. The only reason I know this is that my son is most likely going to Michigan Tech next year.
They would probably be several hundred more people in Houghton, but the environmentalists have been blocking them from re-opening a couple of the existing copper mines. It’s not like their opening a new wound in the earth, just picking open an existing scab.