While travelling in Vietnam, I came across a small bar absolutely heaving with locals, shouting and cheering coming from the back room.
I asked the barman what was happening, Oh it's just the weekly snail racing. Snail racing I said never heard of that before, you can win big money said the barman.
I thought I'm having some of that. So I bought myself a racing snail, 5 races 5 times last place. The chap who sold it to me said, take his shell off it will make him move faster.
I did this, but it just made him sluggish.