For Guinness Sake!

It's great to have goals. This guy

(Associated Press)Jim Purol took a seat at the Rose Bowl, and then another, and then another, until he broke a world record.

The Anaheim man set a Guinness World Record on Wednesday for "Most Seats Sat in 48 Hours" by sitting in 39,250 seats.

seems to have a lot of time on his ass. I'm guessing you can become famous for just about anything if you apply yourself or your heinie diligently and contact Guinness. The world records book was started by the famous Guinness beer company, so I suppose you could do a combo platter and earn recognition from Guinness for downing the most Guinness in one sitting. That'd have to include time to give the beer back, naturally. Hmmm..wonder if there's a record for that? And what kind of person would want to set it? Don't recall seeing an entry for "Longest continuous pee stream" in the books yet, but it's only a matter of time. Woops...here 'tis:

The longest pee delivered at one continuous scoot was one of 36 mins 24secs by Mr George Wingfield (GB) in the doorway of a newsagents shop in Knutsford high street on 22nd December 1986. Mr Wingfield was arrested and charged with a public order offence 17 mins into his record attempt, but arresting officers had to wait a further 19mins 24sec before taking him back to the station for a kicking.

Found that on WikiAnswers, although it's certainly not an official record; the police arrested the peepeetrator instead of calling Guinness.

With the abundance of reality tv shows like Jackass and Fear Factor, there appears to be a huge number of creative ways to achieve notoriety, embarrassment or incarceration. At least Seat Man's stunt doesn't look dangerous, and that's a refreshing change. Since he's broken the record already, and the rest of his work is just gravy, I wonder how long he'll remain top-seated? Who'll be the next contender?

Oh, and don't bother to go for the gusto; Guinness eliminated all alcohol themed records from their books beginning in 1991. But I bet a lot of you are going for the unofficial title. I hear someone's offering $500 and a new liver donated by the runner-up.



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