Idiotarod in NYC

Surely, the Left Coast is up to this, non?

The Idiotarod, disori5nt team.

My favorite is our friend Ted, looking like the world's most pornj retard.

From the NYPost:

"MUSH ADO IN WACKY N.Y. RACE

By HEIDI SINGER and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN

Alaska's famed Iditarod dog-sled race took a wacky urban twist yesterday in the Big Apple's second annual "Idiotarod" competition.

Instead of mushers driving sled dogs through the wilderness from Anchorage to Nome, hundreds of costume-clad contestants schlepped some 75 decorated shopping carts across the Brooklyn Bridge to the finish line in Tompkins Square Park.

A Post reporter and four teammates braved the freezing temperatures, which felt like Alaskan weather, to wheel their Mexican-bandit-themed cart and mascot Ocho the Chihuahua on the grueling five-mile course, starting at the Fulton Ferry Pier in Brooklyn.

"We wanted to put the dog in the cart and have us drive the dog instead," said team member Jorge Monahan.

Another teammate, Dean Dalfonzo, added, "It's great to do something completely ridiculous for no reason at all — just because it's fun."

The 90-minute drive through city streets was inspired by the slightly more famous Alaskan dog-sled race that covers more than 1,000 miles.

Some of the colorful carts included a blow-up octopus and an all-girl team dressed as "Ghostbusters" movie characters.

Alexis Lawrence, 22, of Boston, threw popcorn at startled pedestrians as she and her Ghostbusters teammates rolled by.

"What's it like to fight ghosts? It's scary sometimes, but it's a living. Busting makes me feel good," she said.

The Post's team trailed the first-place winners, the "Bush Mushers," and the runners-up, the "Van Halens."

"I did it for the fun and glory," said Jared Tankel, 25, of Brooklyn, whose second-place team won about $300."