Wrong Way Corrigan is a Cleveland cop. Sends 200 10k runners the wrong direction

[Dr.Phool]

Mods, although this just happened a couple of hours ago, I don't think it measures up to LBN standards, so I'm posting in GD instead.


http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/2007/05/wrong_turn_turns_rite_aid_clev.html#comments


Rite Aid Cleveland 10K takes a wrong turn
Posted by Plain Dealer staff May 20, 2007 12:01PM
Categories: Marathon

A wrong turn sent between 200 to 300 runners off course in today's Rite Aid Cleveland 10K race. So instead of running 6.1 miles some of them ran close to 9 miles. And now the results of the 10K race are in chaos.

According to racers and race officials, a police officer at the two-mile mark of the race (see a map of the route) diverted the lead car guiding 10K competitors through the course. Highway cones had been misplaced in the area, and some racers in the Cleveland marathon who were walking the area had also created a bottleneck.

So instead of going onto the Shoreway, the car's navigator sent runners through the Flats, tacking on as much as 2.7 miles to the race.

Jack Staph, the race's executive director, said he had never seen such a fiasco.

Some runners ran less than the extra 2.7 miles, race officials said. It's unlikely to change the outcome of the men's results. However, the women's results and the results for the top-Ohio finishers and masters (runners older than 40), may be altered. Runners in these categories are awarded cash prizes between $100 and $1,500.




:wtf: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[tabasco]

1. It says highway cones had been misplaced.

Maybe it's not the officer's fault.

It would be really unfair to saddle this on him when it is somebody else's fault.

[Dr.Phool]

3. I spent many years drinking with some of Clevelands finest.

I know some who would do it for a joke. And they work these events.

[EFerrari]

5. That's funny. Today was SF's "Bay to Breakers" race

that ends in my neighborhood -- swamped by thousands of happy, sweaty runners.

Maybe I need to bone up on that cone thing. :rofl:

[Dr.Phool]

7. Kinda reminds you of diverting the marching band in "Animal House".

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

8. Yes!

lol

[donco6]

11. Ha! That's what I thought of, too.

What a great finale!

[MADem]

2. In my town, when they have races, they use chalk and wash-away paint

to mark the route ON THE STREET....with stupid little logos, so no one can fail to take the point.

Which seems like an easy way to do it.

[EFerrari]

6. Look at all these runners (this from 2003). They ALL ran into my hood today

It was sort of scary. :rofl:

edit to fix 'way too big jpg

[matt819]

4. Hey, maybe this kind of stuff happens

But you just have to wonder - Why can't they get basic stuff right in Ohio?

[Dr.Phool]

10. I'm glad nothing like that happens since I moved to Florida.

Nothing but normal people down here.

[shenmue]

9. Oh that is bad

Eeeeeeeeeeek.

:scared:

:dunce:

[LiberalFighter]

12. Was it the same course they ran last year and previous years?

Who was in charge of the route?