SYDNEY (AFP) - The arrival of the troubled Olympic torch relay in Australia next week will revive memories of a 1956 stunt in which a hoax runner fooled crowds with a homemade torch topped by flaming underpants.
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Barry Larkin, then a university student, carried a wooden chair leg crowned with a blazing metal pudding container which held the remains of the pants, up the steps of Sydney's Town Hall and delivered it to city mayor Pat Hills.
The mayor, sensing nothing wrong as tens of thousands of people cheered the runner, took the torch and gave the first part of his prepared speech before becoming aware of the prank.........................
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