A downpour, before and during the 27th annual ‘Mud Day’ event in suburban Detroit, created conditions that were conducive for maximum filthiness.
The festival was open to 12-years-old and below who rolled and swam in a 75-by-150-foot mud pit, which consisted of 200 tons of topsoil and 20,000 gallons of water and was built over a week.
The honor is bestowed upon the boy and girl judged to have best ‘piled the most mud possible’ on themselves, said Lawrence Hemingway, the director of Wayne County Parks
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