How Dumb Can You Be?

I feel sorry for Vladimir Ladyzhensky but what in the world was he and the organizers of this insane competition thinking?

From the AP...

A Russian man trying to win the Sauna World Championships died after collapsing with severe burns in the final stage of an event that required contestants to sit in a 230F degree room.

The annual contest, which had over 130 participants from 15 countries, had been held since 1999. It will never be held again, Arvela (organizer of the "contest") said. There was no prize other than “some small things."

“I know this is very hard to understand to people outside Finland who are not familiar with the sauna habit,” Arvela said. “It is not so unusual to have 110 degrees in a sauna. A lot of competitors before have sat in higher temperatures than that.”

I know I'm typically pretty hard on some folks such as creationists, global warming deniers, and anyone who thinks Sarah Palin is presidential material but this falls into a completely separate category of stoopid.