Later, they called it immolation, and stopped promoting it as a tourist attraction. Once a proud
demonstration of discipline and courage, fire walking has waned in favor of more popular spectator sports like soccer and giant bodybuilder wrestling. My guess is the advent of television made it apparent that advertising is more
lucrative on ESPN than Geraldo. Lower insurance premiums, too.[Ed. note: It's against our better judgment, but since this card was so outrageously popular, we'll toss in another even tackier one. But that's all.] Caption: "Samoan firewalker in Lava-Lava"Credits: [none] |