Unsuitable/Unfeasible Prizes

[kedge]

Mention of Hollie Orr getting an axe as a prize at the O-Ringen today, reminded me of a discussion on prizes I had with Dave Gittus (see the Trail-O thread) the other day on getting prizes which were either bizarre or impossible to bring back from another country.

I've never won such a prize, although I did get a ginormous bouquet of flowers at the WTOC prizegiving in Japan last year when we won the team prize, which I rapidly presented to the assistant planner's wife.

However, Dave recalled taking juniors on various Scandinavian tours at which people were presented with such things as a sofa, and even once a 3-piece suite! Try getting that back on your Ryanair baggage allowance.

Most bizarre of all was the M20 who had the choice of one of two prizes: either the front half of an elk or (yes, you guessed it) the back end of the elk. Suitably jointed of course. Apparently he opted for the front end and had the skull & antlers mounted as a trophy.

Can anyone else add to the list?

[HotShot]

At a Bayern Cup competition (Bavaria, Germany) in about 1995, one of my club colleagues was presented with a mousetrap as a prize!

[Doug T]

i won a blender when i was at a bof tour to halden and we competed in the modum 2 day event.it stayed in halden!

[gowrie]

In the early 1960's in North East Harrier cross country league we won a team prize consisting of cigarettes, ashtrays and cigarette cases!

[Roger]

On the other hand, sometimes those household goods can hit just the right spot: on an OUOC backpacking tour (Sweden and Estonia by public transport), 7th H21AK in Eskilstuna netted me a small hand-towel. Perfect.

[Supersaint]

I heard from a friend in my running club that he once won a fire extinguisher for winning a road race. And i've seen brussels sprouts given as a prize before.

[threerock]

I won an ashtray - 1987 Northern Ireland O-champs as an M17 - nice healthy message for the kids...

[the duncan]

i won a trip to do a race in sweden, which sounded great, but in fact was a nightmare!!

had to organise our own roof rack, bike rack, kayaks etc... not easy at all!!

but we did get a cool hotel to stay in!

[harry]

Last week as well as the usual bottle of wine, i won a jar of wild hare pate in a hill race. it looks revolting but someone in my club is keen on the stuff so i'm donating it in return for a lift to the race tonight.

Natti natti is a multi-runner-many-leg night O relay in stockholm. The winning team shares a big pile of food donated by the supermarket ICA. When we won i took a leek, 6 bananas and a coconut!

[harry]

Another guy from my hill running club said he was at a race last week in the Lakes and 1st place won 1 bottle of beer. He was 9th so he took home 9 bottles of beer! 10th place was the best winning 10 bottles but 11th got nothing so would have to be careful if you were running tactically.

[jet]

As Hollie's overall prize she got a swedish cookery book and a large cooking pot!! my mum tryed to hit that it would be useful for uni, hollie didn't like the sound of that! jet

[Little Hoddy]

Joy won herself a large, extremely heavy cast iron frying pan at last year's oringen whcih was interesting
SOW first day the winners recieved huge £35 pound penknifes, even the H10's! The following days were all bag prizes, seems they reached they're budgit early!

[rocky]

last night i won a watermelon with a golden christmas tree decoration sellotaped to it.

[ratleikur]

I did a race in Iceland a couple of weeks ago in which the prizes and momentos were decorated lumps of lava - very unusual, very Icelandic but also very heavy! I ended up with 3 of these (or a mini rockery as a friend called them) weighing nearly 5kg - good job I travel light...