If  it’s true that “Health & Safety” has gone mad and our “sue everybody” culture has outlawed anything remotely risky, then how do you explain THESE goings-on in Sharlston West Yorkshire?

It’s worth watching around the 2 minutes 30 second mark to see the topless bloke fail to stop and go slicing through the crash barriers (i.e bails of straw) at the end of the race. It looks like he nearly got cleaned up by a 4 wheel drive going the other way but I’m sure everyone took it in a good spirit.

The entry process for the race involves some pretty heavy disclaimers and a stern warning not to consume alcohol until after the race is over. As the “Race HQ” is actually a pub my guess is that plenty of people would get stuck into the ale as soon as circumstances allowed though.

So, the newspaper might tell us that petty bureaucrats have managed to ban anything reckless in our public life but the defiant people of Sharlston tell us otherwise!

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