VANCOUVER — A cheese-rolling competition in Whistler, B.C., went from fun to frightening when a runaway wheel of cheddar crashed into a three-year-old girl and broke her leg, a lawsuit alleges. Toshihiro Nonaka filed the lawsuit in British Columbia Supreme Court on his daughter’s behalf. He said in an interview that he wasn’t with his daughter at the festival, but his wife was. The defendants are named as: Vail Resorts, the U.S. owner of Whistler Blackcomb; Dairy Farmers of Canada, the hosts of the festival and Smak Media and Promotions, the event promoters. A photo of an X-ray provided by Nonaka shows an upper leg bone that is broken at the thigh.

Source: National Post October 20, 2016 13:18 UTC