Unemployed workers gathered in New York's Tompkins Square Park Tuesday, during what was normally a lunch hour, to enjoy the Unemployment Olympics. Organizers reason this is the first, and they hope last, event of its kind.
Nick Goddard, 26, who lost his job as a computer programmer last month, said he came up with the idea for the Unemployment Olympics because he wanted to "battle all the unemployed people for stuff," the New York Times reported.