Take the baubles off first!

What do you do with your old Christmas tree?  Stash it somewhere until the council deign to start collecting garden refuse again (and that's April round my way)?  Take it down the tip and then spend the next 30 minutes vacuuming all the pine needles out of your car boot?  Well in Weidenthal in Germany they hold an annual Christmas tree throwing championship, with competitions for distance and height, and of course all the trees are disposed of at the end of the day. What a good idea.