The rules of the game are simple, you show up, you chase cheese off a cliff, you tumble for a couple hundred yards, then you go to either the pub or the local hospital.
"This Cheese Rolling thing is MAD, and I still can't believe how steep the hill was either, cripes! At the start I manged to take about 6 steps before things went grass, sky, grass, sky, grass, sky... then the next thing I knew I was at the base of the hill standing next to a guy with what looked to be a broken leg.
A word of warning: YOU WILL BE INJURED!
Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake is dangerous and can easily result in serious injury or possibly death. When we had a go in 2002 it seemed someone wound up being karted off in an ambulance after almost every run - and considering only 15 people participate in each run the odds of being injured are not favourable.
Spectators have been known to be injured as well. One year a spectator caught the round of cheese in his head and sent him tumbling down the hill where he received treatment from the paramedics. Participate at our own risk, and good luck!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/3761541.stm
http://www.doctordanger.com/other/Cheese.htm
