The Writer of Pop website brings us today’s history story. It happened today in 2005.
Domino Day was an annual event where teams from all over the world traveled to the Netherlands and worked together to create the world’s largest display of toppling domino stones. The event was broadcast on TV each year from 1998 to 2009.
Typically, the event would have a few setbacks during the building of the display, but on this day in 2005, the unthinkable happened. A sparrow flew into the building and landed on a few of the stacked dominoes which then led to the toppling of 23,000 dominoes (of the 4 million already stacked) to fall.
Outraged by the disruption, the event organizers hired an exterminator to shoot the sparrow. But then, the shooting outraged a few animal rights groups who took court action against both the exterminator and Endemol Netherlands (the Domino Day production company). In the end, the exterminator was fined 200 euros.
I’m guessing that this is one of the worst cases of “erect tile” dysfunction on record …..
