Mobile Phone Throwing: Finland's Sport of Hurling Your Nokia

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 09:00:00 +0000

In the year 2000, in the Finnish lake town of Savonlinna, somebody decided the most satisfying thing you could do with an obsolete mobile phone was to throw it as far as humanly possible. They were, of course, completely correct. Thus was born the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championship, and Finland added another entry to its remarkable catalogue of taking a joke entirely seriously.

The origin story is almost too good. The event was launched by a Savonlinna translation and interpretation company, whose multinational staff apparently had a lot of frustration and a lot of dead handsets to work through. The two problems solved each other. You take yesterday’s technology, you wind up, you hurl it across a field, and the local recycling centre collects the wreckage afterwards. Catharsis and waste management in one clean motion. It has run in Savonlinna most years since, usually in late summer.

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Mobile Phone Throwing: Finland's Sport of Hurling Your Nokia