Around 10,000 people have paraded in Mexico City dressed as zombies and the organisers are claiming it as the biggest “zombie walk” ever held, eclipsing the current Guinness world record of 4,093 zombies held by Asbury Park in the US. A group in Brisbane in Australia has also laid claim to the record after massing 8,000 zombies last month. In …
All fall down
Palantine Beds, in Newcastle, are eagerly awaiting confirmation of a new Guinness World Record for human mattress dominoes after they toppled 400 mattresses to beat the current record of 380 set two weeks ago by a team in America. Prior to this, the record was held by a Chinese team with 280. The company spent months planning the attempt, having …
Fire up the furniture
Perry Watkins, from Buckinghamshire, is awaiting confirmation of a new world record for the fastest piece of furniture after driving his Queen Anne dining table down a racetrack at an average speed of 113 mph. Watkins drove the Queen Anne table, nicknamed ‘Fast Food’ and set for a silver service dinner, twice down a 500m track at Santa Pod, Nottinghamshire, …
Pi in the sky
Shigeru Kondo, a 55 year old Japanese systems engineer, has set a new world record by doing what most of us would never even consider worth even dreaming about doing. He has calculated Pi (ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter) to 5 trillion digits. Pi, as we all know, is usually abbreviated to 3.14. The previous …
A cutter above the rest
Pendine Sands in Wales was the scene of a new world record, rider Don Wales achieving a speed of 86.069 mph on a lawnmower.
New world record
Sarah clocked 6.13 seconds for 100 metres to set a new world record. Later this month in South Africa, Zaza will attempt to beat the new record.
Damp squib
It didn’t turn out to be the great ‘event’ it was supposed to be, but it was a world record nonetheless. About 175,000 people turned out to see ‘Roar on the Shore’, and attempt to set a Guinness World Record by setting of 110,000 fireworks within 60 seconds from a barge between Bournemouth and Boscombe piers. The spectators were expecting …
New world record
This year’s Bog Snorkelling Triathlon, held in the Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells, was won in world record time by 30 year old Dan Bent from Richmond in Surrey. The new record time was 2 hours 21 minutes and 5 seconds. The triathlon consists of a 7 and a half mile run, two lengths of the 135-foot long, six-foot deep …
World record broken
The previous record was held by Castleblayney in County Monaghan, Ireland, with a total of 1,253, but this has now been more than doubled by the city of Swansea with a staggering 2,510. The world record attempt took place at the Oceana nightclub in Swansea and involved mainly students. Verification of the attempt took several hours and wasn’t made official …