Visitors to an Alaska winter festival will get the chance to run shoulder-to-shoulder with reindeer.
For the first Running of the Reindeer, about a dozen reindeer will be set loose on Feb. 24 in downtown Anchorage. They will be joined by people who will pay $20 (NT$650) to run along.
"I think we'll have to turn people away," said Bob Lester, a local radio host who came up the idea.
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Officials at the festival, called the Fur Rendezvous, are limiting entrants to 500 men and 500 women. The men and women will run with the reindeer separately. So far, about 40 people have signed up.
Tom Williams, who owns the reindeer, is worried that the reindeer will just be docile.
"I'm afraid the deer are just going to stand there. It may be a very slow walk, with the animals sticking their noses in people's pockets, looking for something to eat," Williams said.(STAFF WRITER WITH AP)
到阿拉斯加參加冬季節的遊客將有機會和麋鹿並肩奔馳。
首屆「與麋鹿同跑」活動將在二月二十四日舉辦，當天在安克拉治市中心將有近十二隻鬆韁的麋鹿，遊客只要繳付二十美元（新台幣六百五十元）就可以享受與麋鹿同跑的樂趣。
當地廣播節目主持人，同時也是此活動的發起人巴伯．萊斯特說：「我想我們得謝絕一些人。」
這場名為「毛茸茸的約會」的慶典主辦單位將管制進場人數在五百位男性和五百位女性，男女將分開與麋鹿同跑，截至目前為止，已約有四十人報名參加。
麋鹿的主人湯姆．威廉擔心麋鹿會太溫馴。
威廉說：「我擔心麋鹿到時候會站在原地，加上牠們會把鼻子湊到民眾的口袋找吃的東西，所以前進的速度可能十分緩慢。」（美聯社／翻譯：袁星塵）
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