Idiotarod 2013 (slide show)
Costumes, seminudity and an upright piano were all par for the course at Idiotarod 2013.
Mon Jan 28 2013
With the Coney Island Polar Bear Club's New Year's Day Swim and the No Pants Subway Ride behind them, wacky thrill-seekers tackled Idiotarod 2013 over the weekend. The annual shopping-cart race is inspired by Alaska's Iditarod dogsled derby, but with the added elements of bribery, sabotage, costumes and creative vehicle modification. As nutty as the event proper was, the Gowanus Ballroom after-party is where things really got cray-cray—a shopping cart was set on fire, Hendrix-style.
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