A Finnish teenager has smashed the world record — and probably his phone — in this year’s annual mobile-phone throwing contest in Finland.<\/p>\n
Eighteen-year-old Ere Karjalainen launched a phone the “amazing” distance of 101.46 metres (332 feet 10 inches), Finnish public television network YLE said after Saturday’s event.<\/p>\n
Second place went to South African Jeremy Gallop, who threw a phone 94.67 metres.<\/p>\n
According to contest organisers, the competition offers mobile phone users a unique opportunity to “pay back all the frustrations and disappointments caused by these modern equipments.”<\/p>\n
Finland is the home of Nokia and is awash in obsolete phones, organisers said. “There will be no doping tests,” organisers said on their English website.<\/p>\n
“However the jury can rule out the contestant if his\/her mental or physical preparedness is not adequate for full a performance.”<\/p>\n
The event has been held in the southeastern town of Savonlinna since 2000.<\/p>\n
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