There is lots to do this weekend with the Gladbrook Corn Carnival and State Center Rose Festival underwy…but if those are a little tame for you, you might want to head for Macksburg. It is hosting the annual National Skillet Throwing Contest this weekend.

Organizer Becky Faust says they have a pile of steel skillets of various sizes from which contestants may choose their weapons. They have to hurl the skillet underhanded about 30 feet at the head of a defenseless dummy.

Each set of basketball-headed dummies is surrounded by a reinforced wire fence which is meant to keep stray skillets from braining bystanders.

The Madison County town, population 113, will see skillets flying beginning at noon tomorrow.

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