Weighing mayor. The tradition worthy of widespread implementation

In the British town of High Wycombe is an old interesting tradition, according to which the locals publicly weighed their mayor.
This tradition was wound up in High Wycombe started in 1678, when the inhabitants of the city decided to do away with the mayors, to steal money from the city treasury and literally tolstevshimi of nourishing life. Every year in May to weigh the mayor, along with his other officials and advisers. If compared with the last year the mayor had put on weight, it is believed that he did it for the taxpayers' money, so it can be mocked and booed, and the crowd traditionally had the right to beat him with rotten fruit and vegetables.

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