A father of two was recovering in hospital last night after attempting to complete the Moyles Marathon. Dave Rigsworth, 38, of Weston-Super-Mare collapsed only 12 hours into the event.
“I guess I’m not as young as I thought I was” he said from his bed. “I knew it was going to be tough, but I had been training.”
Dave, a self-employed heating engineer had started by listening to Radio One as he drove his two boys to the local school. “I found that I could tolerate 20 minutes of the inane drivel so I had the idea of seeing just how much I could take. After a month or so I was up to a full programme and pushed myself a bit further with the BBC iPlayer.”
“I thought that, on the day, the adrenalin would help me get to the end, but I was wrong.”
After only half a day, Dave simply hit a wall. “It was as if my brain and body just started to shut down. I was trying to listen but the sycophantic babble and witless northern drone was just too much.”
Wife Joan,36, found her husband in a near catatonic state and called 999. “It was terrible, I’d gone to bed but Dave had stayed up to spare me the pain. When I found him he was rocking from side to side with his head in his hands and begging for it to stop.”
The quick thinking ambulance crew played recordings of “I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue” and old Wogan shows during the mercy dash to Weston’s Memorial Hospital where doctors were able to stabilise him.
Consultant, Mr. James Pearce praised the paramedics and expects Dave to make a full recovery.
“People over 20 should recognise the dangers of listening to this kind of stuff. Once the brain is fully developed it simply cannot cope with such a mindless onslaught. Mr. Rigsworth is very lucky. Another few minutes and the damage could have been irreversible. He could have developed Cordon-Gervais syndrome; laughing pointlessly at everything he hears.”
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Dad of two collapses during Moyles marathon
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