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Casino Beacon > Online Casinos > New Casino Bonuses > Bonus Archive 09 April 2008 Happy Birthday, Big Ben Thursday, April 10 2008 will be the 150th anniversary of Big Ben being cast and William Hill are offering a number of specials for its birthday year. Big Ben has been thwarted for a number of reasons over the years and the bookies are offering odds on similar occurrences in 2008. William Hill offered 500/1 that Big Ben fails to chime over the twenty four hour period of the 10th of April, 100/1 that it fails to chime in 2008 because of bird interference, 150/1 due to snow and 150/1 because of a heat wave this summer. "Big Ben is one of the best known landmarks and in typical British fashion punters are always keen to have a small wager on something going wrong," said William Hill's spokesman Rupert Adams. Big Ben Specials 100/1 Big Ben To Fail To Chime due to Bird interference (In 1949 a flock of starlings managed to stop it briefly by perching on one of the minute hands). 150/1 Big Ben Fails to chime due to being frozen / Snow Build up in 2008 (A build-up of snow on the hands caused it to ring in the New Year ten minutes late in 1962). 150/1 Big Ben to stop due to a heat wave in 2008 (In May 2005 it ground to a halt for more than an hour and a half, probably because of hot weather). 500/1 Big Ben To Stop On Birthday. 1000/1 One Of The Hands To Fall Off in 2008. |
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