{"id":267522,"date":"2016-11-12T12:05:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T12:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=267522"},"modified":"2016-11-12T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T12:05:32","slug":"slovak-brothers-win-burial-competition-with-fastest-neatest-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/slovak-brothers-win-burial-competition-with-fastest-neatest-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovak brothers win burial competition with fastest, neatest grave"},"content":{"rendered":"
Two brothers from Slovakia won a grave-digging competition at an international exhibition of funeral, burial and cremation services on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Ladislav and Csaba Skladan, aged 43 and 41 respectively, dug a grave 1.5 meters deep, two meters long and 90 centimeters wide in 54 minutes in the western Slovak town of Trencin, beating 10 other two-member teams from Slovakia, Poland and Hungary as a small audience cheered loudly.<\/p>\n
Their grave was also the neatest, a five-member jury agreed.<\/p>\n
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“We want to show and appreciate the hard work of grave diggers,” said Ladislav Striz, who established the contest last year.<\/p>\n
“Most Slovak graveyards are so crowded and spaces between graves so narrow that we need human diggers instead of machines,” he said. “They work hard, come rain, come snow.”<\/p>\n
“I am happy we won, it’s a satisfaction after fifteen years in this job,” Csaba Skladan said.<\/p>\n
“I had to focus on speed today but usually, when the weather is nice and I can chat with my brother, it’s a dream job,” added Ladislav Skladan.<\/p>\n
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Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two brothers from Slovakia won a grave-digging competition at an international exhibition of funeral, burial and cremation services on Thursday. Ladislav and Csaba Skladan, aged 43 and 41 respectively, dug a grave 1.5 meters deep, two meters long and 90 centimeters wide in 54 minutes in the western Slovak town of Trencin, beating 10 other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":267527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117],"tags":[13535,9172,13536],"yoast_head":"\n