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Spectator pranks London Marathon runners (video)

One spectator at the London Marathon had little respect for the pain and agony of runners traversing 26.2 miles on Sunday.

In the below video (warning: graphic language in the description), what appears to be a child offers high-fives to runners. That’s not unusual at large marathons.

However, when the participants put their hands out, the spectator flippantly moves to avoid the congratulatory ritual.

As if running a marathon wasn’t already an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves.

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