A New Sport: Urban Sprinting

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While writing tomorrow's issue of Birds in the News, I found this hilarious video that you might enjoy. Like most sports, urban sprinting is simple. First, you find a shop with a security guard, then you take an alarmed tag off merchandise and walk out the door with it, setting off the alarm. Of course, you haven't stolen anything (except the tag), but they'll still chase you anyway. When you get to the nearest hamburger shop, the clock stops. And that's how you play urban sprinting!

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Now I hear they're trying to make a U.S. version of the I.T. Crowd. It means they'll screw it up, I'm certain. The only successful port of a British TV show so far has been The Office.

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