Every summer, the people of Lyme Regis, Dorset, gather on the town’s harbour to take part in the game of conger cuddling.
Like a scene from Monty Python, where two characters slap each other with dead fish, the event involves contestants knocking one another off blocks using a 5ft dead conger eel suspended from a rope. Not only is it a cause of much hilarity, the RNLI-backed game has raised thousands of pounds for the lifeboat charity over the years.
But now all that has changed after an anonymous animal rights campaigner complained that the event was ‘disrespectful’ to dead animals, causing its organisers to pull the plug on it.
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Seaside town banned from ‘doing the conger’ (Daily Mail, via Scribal Terror) Conger Cuddling and Marrow Dangling (Everything2) Another photo, from LymeRegis.com (scroll down a bit) I meant to recommend this movie on “Eel Day”: Unagi, a feel-good story of a boy and his eel |
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