Maryland Company Holds Landscape Olympics

The Landscape Olympics is just like the regular Olympics, only without all the backstabbing, kneecap-crunching and vote rigging.

Held by Landscape Projects Inc. of Bethesda, Md., the second annual contest allowed the company's 24 employees to show off their skills in events including push mower, riding mower, edge work and planting. There are also two written tests.

You want competition? First place got $400. Second place, $300. Third, $250. Loser had to eat his hat.

LPI's owner, Michael Abert, would be the first to advocate the inclusion of lawn mowing in the 2004 Olympics in Athens. As owner, Abert is the Juan Antonio Samaranch of the Landscape Olympics. He walks around with his clipboard, surveying his men.

Source: Washington Post