Mammoth fund raiser

The Time: 17:00 on Saturday, May 8th, 2010 AD the Location: Pole Mokotowskie park, Warsaw The Event: ‘Loonies’ running around dressed in suits. In short, the second Warsaw Rat Race.  It was 16.59 and wives were adjusting their husbands’ ties for the last time, women were asking their female friends whether their suits looked good on them, and the mammoth put all of his... six legs on the starting line. A minute later, 36 teams of four, started running. The runners were apparently dressed in their office clothes, i.e. suits, shirts, jackets, and carrying a mandatory folder. Patent leather shoes and high heels, however, were exchanged for trainers. A few teams stood out from the white-collar crowd: officers of the Warsaw police force in their uniforms, cadet pilots from Dęblin’s Szkoła Orląt flying school and the mammoth – an intrepid trio dressed as the mascot of the Lolek Pub (which is l