BED WINS HUMPING TITLE

October 21, 2005
Butte, Montana

An Old Oakland oak furniture bed from the little town of Deer Lodge won the humping title for the second year in a row at the "2005 Best Banging Bed Competition" in Butte, Montana.

The annual event awards beds for their performance in 3 categories:

1) Depth: this is the ratio of bounciness to firmness a user would encounter.

2) Headboard action: this is determined by the texture and tone the bed's headboard provides when the user's head bangs against it for 20 minutes or longer.

3) Flexibility: this is a free-style category to determine how the bed handles the highest variety of positions.

The Old Oakland furniture bed is made using traditional methods, hand finished with carvings in traditional designs that all help create one great hump.

"It (Old Oakland furniture bed) really gives you the most hump out of any of the bed's in the competition," said one of the judges. "You can lay pipe all day and know that you've got a solid framework to do your dirty work."

The runner-up this year was a high-end futon. No waterbeds were to be seen in the finals.