The Fablieaux

The Belgian bodybuilding championship has been canceled after doping officials showed up and all the competitors fled.

A doping official says bodybuilders just grabbed their gear and ran off when he came into the room.

“I have never seen anything like it and hope never to see anything like it again,” doping official Hans Cooman said Monday.

Twenty bodybuilders were entered in the weekend competition. Cooman says the sport has a history of doping “and this incident didn’t do its reputation any good.”

Hugo Ghailergh, one of the most promising contestants, commented “We were lucky to get out of there when we did. Those testers are much smaller and faster than we are. Thankfully we always have a back door. We will do whatever we have to to preserve the sport. No drug testing will kill this fine sport.”

During testing of bodybuilding events last year, doping authorities of northern Belgium’s Flanders region found that three-quarters of the competitors tested positive. Competitors this year were determined not to have the same shame brought upon the sport, and they succeeded.

Daytone Beach, Florida authorities said two men called 911 after they were robbed at gunpoint while trying to buy 20 pounds of marijuana.

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office reported that the men went to a home Monday with $12,000 to buy the drugs. Two men at the home jumped them, took their money and drove off. A report said the victims jumped in their own vehicle to follow and one of them called 911 for help.

The other vehicle got away, but deputies went back to the house, where they arrested a 34-year-old man and charged him with robbery. Authorities are still looking for the other man. It’s not clear if drugs or money were recovered.

A sheriff’s spokesman said charges could follow for the men seeking to buy the drugs, but would probably be dropped as they didn’t get the drugs.

“There is such a thing as ‘honor among thieves,’” Walter Ishton, Deputy Sherriff for Volusia County said, “and we are chartered with upholing the law-even if it among drug dealers. A deal is still a deal, and we will seek justice for the drug buyers-and if not, then the dealer.”