LEESBURG, Fla. -- Leesburg's annual Bikefest is set for next week and city leaders are about to make sure it doesn't get too rowdy. City officials want to ban Jello and pudding wrestling matches. Leesburg city officials want no rain at next week's Bikefest and no controversial events either."We have had some odd events take place in the past. It's simply not the kind of event we want to have at the Leesburg Bikefest," Mayor David Knowles said...For Knowles that means no type of fighting competitions, especially the ones that include Jello, after hearing that some vendors that sell alcohol planned to hold wrestling matches involving desserts. Officials plan to ban them; the city does not want its event to be like Daytona Beach's Bike Week."We've had a number of organizations come to Leesburg and look at Leesburg and say, 'This is not really our kind of party place.' And they go elsewhere," Knowles explained.The mayor wouldn't name names, but says well-known motorcycle gangs now skip Leesburg's gathering, and that's fine with him. He says the city doesn't specifically bill Bikefest as a family-friendly event; it's mostly motorcycles after all. But there are still lots of children and a few events geared toward them, and a more responsible crowd of grownups that tend to behave."It may be an adult event, but it's not an x-rated adult event," Knowles said.
Well Jesus H. You know why you're a second rate (if that) Florida town Leesburg? Because of shit like this. "Does not want its event to be like Daytona Beach." You should be lucky to be even mentioned in the same sentence as Daytona at this point. People across the country know Daytona and go out of their way to visit Daytona. You're a backwoods, redneck, hick town that no one has ever heard of, and now, thanks you your mayor, no one ever will. Seriously, while your mayor is busy tucking his sack back, other towns are hosting jello and pudding wrestling events and making a fortune off the tourism dollars.
If you're holding a bike week you go all out, and if that means gelatin food based fighting contests, then so be it. Embrace it, higher Bill Cosby to ref the fights, this is your big ticket out of the sticks and into the spot light. Bike week isn't for families, it's for convicts and bull-dykes. And if I know one thing about convicts and bull-dykes its that they love watching females duke it out in J-E-LL-O.
