A rip-roaring celebration for Velcro

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - May 14, 2008

Yesterday, current and former employees of Velcro USA lined the streets of Manchester, New Hampshire, for a rip-roaring celebration.

For more than mile, people ripped apart strips of the fastener that has gone the moon and helps to keep babies' bottoms covered.

Velcro was developed by a Swiss inventor, after studying the burs that stuck to his dog's fur and his wool hunting pants.

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