There are some pretty obscure Guinness World Records out there . If you ’re bluff enough to devise something completely insane and execute it , you could sure cement yourself in the chronological record of history , just like 24 - year - old Simon Berry did when he bungee jump from 240 feet to dunk a cookie into a mug of tea .
Berry , a native of the United Kingdom sporting a strapping beard and a fierce daze of heavyset hair , fearlessly jump from the dizzying height and drown his cookie with razor - sharp-worded precision . This is essentially how superheroes eat snack .
To document just how gnarly the feat actually is , Berry filmed his jump with a mounted head television camera , so you’re able to watch from a first - individual view as he plummet toward his Union Jack - themed mug . Berry clasped one handwriting over the other to give himself dandy command over the cooky , which he easily could have dribble or taken a nibble from during his extraction .
He was interviewed after his leap , much in the same mineral vein as a heroic athlete after clinch triumph in a championship football plot . concord toThe Telegraph , Berry said of his record : " It was pretty unmanageable - the team helped by getting me roughly in there in the correct place , but going down and birth to nail that loving cup of tea was pretty tricky . ”
The previous record – yes , this is in reality a competitive sport – was typeset after American Ron Jones bungee cord climb up from 198 feet to souse his own cookie . But snap are in order for Berry , who ’s drive bite into a bold , Modern frontier .
Sam Blum is a News Staff Writer for Thrillist . He ’s also a martial art and music grind who appreciates a fine sandwich and cunning click . Find his clips in The Guardian , Rolling Stone , The A.V. Club and Vice . He ’s on Twitter@Blumnessmonster .
