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A Seattle personal injury attorney became the first woman to set a world boomerang record for time aloft. Betsylew Miale-Gix shattered the previous record--her boomerang was airborne for 3 minutes and 49 seconds.
Betsylew broke the record at a United States Boomerang Association (USBA) tournament in Tuscon, AZ. This summer, Seattle will host the 2008 World Boomerang Championships at the University of Washington. You better believe Seattlest will be there with their own stop-watch to enjoy the time-aloft competition, which sounds fascinating.
According to the USBA, Betsylew has been the premier female competitive boomerang thrower for the past decade. Being a boomerang champion doesn't come without it's drawbacks, though. In 2002, Betsylew was arrested and detained at a Connecticut airport after refusing to remove the boomerangs from her luggage. Considering that boomerangs were invented to be weapons, we suppose the TSA agent may have had a point, but we don't blame Betsylew for arguing.
Sadly, The Boomerang School went out of business according to Flickr Contributor vanderwal
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Wait wait, according to the USBA, boomerangs were not used as weapons: "Returning boomerangs aren't heavy enough to kill anything bigger than a large insect. In Australia, where the returning boomerang probably originated, boomerangs may have been used as decoys to mimic birds of prey, tricking a flock of ducks into the waiting nets of the hunters."