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Today is the final day of the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain

"First staged in 1620, this strange event celebrating Corpus Christi sees grown men dressed as the Devil leaping over a row of babies lying in the street."

Admission is free! Where else can you get that kind of entertainment at no charge?

It's kind of dull in the early stages when the guys jump over one or two babies, except when the drunken fat guys try it, but it gets pretty exciting on the final day (today), when they start to go all Evel Knievel on the babies and leap over ever-longer lines of them.

Oh, some of you Nanny Staters will get all concerned for the babies. Don't be silly. They use more than 10,000 babies in the competition, and fewer than 100 of them die. That's not even one percent. Given all the drunks driving during the festival, and all the bulls running through the streets, the babies would have a greater chance of dying if their parents took them out for a walk in a stroller.