WIENERDOG STAMPEDE

IT STARTED WITH A WARNING.

The real origin, in Dane Shakespear’s words.

The first warning

When I was a kid, I visited a psychic in San Francisco. She told me I was going to live a long life. Then she added, jokingly, “Unless you get killed in something crazy — like a wienerdog stampede.”

I never forgot it.

Years later, Wienerdog Stampede became a game.

— Dane Shakespear

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