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Minnie Mouse rescued from Lakes after bike crash leg break
9:41am Thursday 11th December 2008
MINNIE Mouse has been rescued from a Lake District fell after breaking her leg while crashing her mountain bike.
Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue team had to rescue a woman mountain biker dressed as popular Disney cartoon character Minnie Mouse on Sunday afternoon.
The woman, an experienced rider in her 30s, was on a festive ‘fancy dress ride’ with Lancaster based mountain bike club The Bogtrotters.
The group - which included riders dressed as Dennis the Menace, Shrek, a sugar plum fairy, a pre-op transsexual and a sexy Santa - were riding along Elterwater Common, near Great Langdale, when she crashed her bike, breaking her left ankle.
Nick Owen, spokesman for Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue, said: “She just fell off her bike and badly broke her ankle.
“She was on a fancy dress ride, there was a bloke there with suspenders and stockings on. They were all in good spirits.”
The woman was taken by ambulance to Lancaster Royal Infirmary.
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simonfbarnes, Lancaster says...
11:21am Fri 12 Dec 08
it's supposed to be funny :o) Obviously no sensible person would normally dress that way, whatever their sexual orientation...
See more photos of the event here:
http://www.bogtrotte
rs.org/show_album.ph
p?srcdir=rides/2008/
7dec
simonfbarnes, Lancaster says...
11:24am Fri 12 Dec 08
http://tinylink.com/
?KPEeODEq9q
BigLiz, East Kilbride says...
5:08pm Fri 12 Dec 08
simonfbarnes, Lancaster says...
8:53pm Fri 12 Dec 08
OK, I'll go with that :o)
Lord Nelson, Kendal says...
9:58am Wed 17 Dec 08
Anyway i think events like this one are great fun and often like to dress as a woman on accasions myself! (But not as a fruit cake dressed as a tart!?) Lol.
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BigLiz, East Kilbride says...
3:04pm Thu 11 Dec 08