The dangers posed by 'hilarious' PR photoshoots was underscored in Norn Iron recently when some daft bint dressed as a tomato sustained a spinal injury after getting clobbered by a gymnastics-attempting politician.
It was all bound to go wrong sometime or other and the inevitable happened when Bail-Fawst Lord Mayor Jim Rodgers, performing for the cameras, whacked the unsuspecting Lorraine Mallon, who was impersonating a tomato at the time to help the promotion of a gourmet garden event. A creative photographer had stumbled on the idea of having the Mayor leapfrog Ms. Mallon for that perfect comic photo but poor athletic prowess on his part means the whole fiasco ended in tears.
Unfortunately Mayor Rodgers isn't as spry and nimble as he thought and possibly tiring after three false starts (you only get two at the Olympics), he ended up walloping the unsuspecting Ms. Mallon across the back of the head with his knee as he attempted his final vault. She now has a slipped disc.
"I have been absolutely devastated over what has happened. There had been three false runs and I think Lorraine thought this was just another one. I just caught the top of her head and unfortunately I injured her," he blubbed.
"I'm very fit and look after myself, but it was just one of those unfortunate things," he added, trying to assert his masculinity despite having failed so miserably at this most basic of childsplay disciplines. Never let him do the conga or innocent bystanders could be decapitated.
Ms. Mallon meanwhile, has been off work since September 4th, and it's unclear if she plans to take up her salad-dressing career when she is upright again.
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