Oh sweet ever-loving Jesus, it’s been at least twenty-five years since I read that article on ferret-legging, but one does not forget an essay like that.
Thanks for the tumble down the memory lane rabbit hole!
Let’s quote the gist of it, so our fellow Boing Boing readers are properly warned:
Basically, the contest involves the tying of a competitor’s trousers at the ankles and the subsequent insertion into those trousers of a couple of peculiarly vicious fur-coated, footlong carnivores called ferrets. The brave contestant’s belt is then pulled tight, and he proceeds to stand there in front of the judges as long as he can, while animals with claws like hypodermic needles and teeth like number 16 carpet tacks try their damnedest to get out.
