Canada: Police Break up ‘Bermuda Shorts Day’
The annual ‘Bermuda Shorts Day’ at a Canadian University ended with much aplomb; the arrival of the Police, a student carted off by ambulance and another student arrested after attempting to steal an ambulance.
Bermuda Shorts Day is a decades old tradition at the University of Calgary, which started 50 years ago when one student decided he would mark the last day of classes by wearing the tackiest Bermuda shorts he could find, and encouraged others to join him.
Now considered an unofficial part of the annual last day of class celebrations, the day involves “couch races“, where Bermuda-short-wearing students outfit couches with wheels and race down a hill on them.
Hundreds of students gathered earlier this month, many wearing garish Bermuda shorts. One race resulted in one student being injured and whisked away by ambulance, which resulted in the police arriving to break up the event.
At least two more students suffered minor injuries when couches crashed into the crowd; one had a chipped tooth and another had a concussion.
Amid all the madness someone else tried to drive off with an ambulance. The individual, who was drunk, is said to have slowly taken off with the vehicle, and ended up being caught very quickly.
