LONDON: Kevin Pyle, 35, gets his son to drive him slowly around the block and, with his arm stretched out of the window, holds a lead attached to his bull mastiff Bruce, who walks alongside. He claims to cover around four miles a week but never does any walking himself. He said: “It sounds terrible that I take Bruce for a walk like that, but it saves me from getting wet when it’s raining. He really enjoys it and it saves my legs,” the Daily Telegraph reported.
Now he’s won the title of being the region’s Great North Bum. Mr Pyle, of Fenham, Newcastle, was nominated for the competition by his 18-year-old son Karl. “My dad is the laziest person I know. When he gets in from work he has a bath and goes straight to bed. He just lies there and watches the TV,” said Karl.
“He even shouts down the stairs for us to go up and turn the channel over for him. But even we couldn’t believe it when he came up with the idea to take Bruce for a walk like that.
“Dad goes to work at around 4.30am to 5am and he gets me up so I can drive around the block while he holds Bruce’s lead. He is so lazy and deserves the title.”
Competition bosses say he won by a landslide.
