POLAR BEAR'S ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S DIP RULED INVALID DUE TO BALMY TEMPERATURES

PITTSBURGH - The International Polar Bear Committee invalidated the local chapter’s annual New Years Day swim because, the Committee said, the weather here was too warm to evidence true courage. However, when the Committee learned that the body of water the swimmers had immersed themselves in was the Monongahela River, the Committee not only reversed itself but ordered the swimmers to be examined by a Hazmat team.