Resident wheels his way into Guinness World Records
We’ve all heard about and perhaps even read the book. You might have watched the spinoff TV show with varying degrees of intrigue, admiration and awe. Oft-times with tongue planted firmly in cheek. That would be amusement. You might have read about the fellow in Australia who swallowed a sword and then held a sack of potatoes attached to the sword’s end. That set a record for most weight dangled from a tongue (Answer: 44 lb., 4.96 oz.). Then there’s Jackie Bibby of Texas. Apparently disdaining the standard rubber duckies, he set a record by sitting with the most rattlesnakes in a bathtub (Answer: 87). And, yes, he lived another day to presumably sit in a bathtub filled with, well, 87 rattlesnakes. Or maybe 88. There’s the record for pogo stick jumping (Answer: 23.11 miles), longest lawn mower ride (Answer: 14,594.5 miles) and longest leg hair (Answer: don’t ask). Of course they are Guinness World Records. And although that organization — with a worldwide brand meaning even natives
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