Treadmill Woes
MYSTERY surrounds the identity of the hapless Stubby who came a cropper on a running machine and became the laughing stock of the gym.
The well-known figure, whose identity is being protected for fear of subjecting him to ridicule by fellow club members, was upended while on the treadmill at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham.
Dressed in the latest, fetching lycra, our hapless figure was in the middle of a circuits session at the hospital. Clearly trying to impress the gym class made up of the "Wecock Farm Fight the Flab Over-60s club" plus a sprinkling or Hattie Jacques-type nurses, he tried to jump straight onto the machine which was already in full flight and promptly fell off grass over grit.
There were screams and shouts from those in the gym bellowing to Stubbington's very own Mr Magoo how to turn the machine off. His main concern was to continue flying off the moving piece of machinery and into a pile of dumb bells lying nearby.
"It were agony," confessed the victim after. "There I was in the hospital gym with third degree burns after falling off a treadmill. It were so embarrassing. I'm not sure if I can show my face in the gym again. Mind you, the ladies have a larf!"
You want a clue as to who the victim is? Oh no, that would be grossly unfair!