Five records that the Guinness Committee no longer accepts, and this is for the best

Almost everyone wants to leave their mark on history. Some try to achieve recognition through discoveries, others resort to war, and still others are ready to disgrace themselves. Some people even go to extremes. From now on, the Guinness Book of Records will not record dangerous achievements for the sake of glory at any cost. Cracked.

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This book documents various achievements, sometimes some of which were rather strange to say the least.

For example, for food-eating competitors, diarrhea is a small price to pay for immortality and a mention in the pages of a record book.

However, people sometimes demand that the Guinness World Records Committee ban or refuse certain achievements simply because the participants overestimated their capabilities and endangered not only their bodies, but their health in general.

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We offer you to get acquainted with five records that are no longer fixed for our own good.

heaviest pets

The Guinness World Record for Pets is sort of a double whammy of dubious achievement. The size of pets, namely the record one, is very popular and in demand. You can have a huge pet and boldly claim that your proud photo hit the Internet.

However, there is one exception: weight. At one point, the Guinness World Records Committee tracked down the heaviest pets, including fish. He stopped setting such records due to fears that fame seekers were force-fed their pets. A big fat guinea pig is fun, but stuffing food into it day and night is inhumane.

Lack of sleep

Sleep deprivation is no joke. Many of us have spent sleepless nights with caffeine or stronger pharmaceuticals in order to pass, say, the only mandatory art school math test. But the records go far beyond a couple cans of Monster and 16 hours of sleep the next night.

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When you go several days without sleep, things start to seriously go awry. Concerned about the well-being of people who may try to stay awake for long periods of time by abusing stimulants, Guinness World Records has closed this category. The championship in this record will forever remain with a teenager from San Diego named Randy Gardner. It started as a school science fair project. The project ended 11 days later. All these sleepless days, Randy was watched by a Stanford professor and his brainwaves were scanned at the Naval Hospital.

Alcohol

This is not particularly surprising to anyone. The idea of ​​a world drinking record is like beer ping-pong: it might sound cool when you're in college, but not safe when you're an adult. Obviously, health problems in a person trying to drink an unlimited amount of alcohol will begin immediately. The minimum fee for getting into the record book is guaranteed - this is alcohol poisoning.

One such achievement is now carved in stone - the maximum amount of beer drunk per hour. Now and forever, the record belongs to Jack Case from Northern Ireland, who drank 36 pints (17 liters) of beer in one hour. This gave the 90-kilogram man a blood alcohol concentration of roughly 1 percent. To be precise, the blood alcohol level was 1,08 percent, that is, Case drank so much that 1/100 of his blood volume was alcohol.

Bicycle eating

Probably due to medical concerns and pure surprise at humanity's ability to overeat, the Guinness World Records Committee removed most of the categories associated with overeating. Historic competitions like eating Nathan's hot dogs and other sanctioned events still exist, but sitting at the kitchen table and drinking a hundred milkshakes no longer makes sense.

However, in the food category, the Committee removed a couple of sections that dealt not so much with the amount of food, but with the fact that it wasn't food at all. The record, unconvincingly titled "Greatest Omnivore," is held by a man named Michel Lotito, also known as Monsieur Cuffetou or "Mr. Cuffetou who will eat everything." A Frenchman famous for a combination of unusually thick stomach lining, strong stomach acid and an eating disorder ate 18 bicycles and six chandeliers. For this, he was awarded a diploma by the Guinness Book of Records, which, of course, he ate.

To be buried alive

The coffin is an unusual item. Of course, in the end, a person will have to spend eternity in it. But once there was a daredevil who wished for the sake of world fame and recognition of the Guinness Committee to lie in it for more than one hour or a day. The last record in history belongs to Mike Meany from Ireland. He spent 61 days at a depth of almost 2 m. In fact, he was surpassed by a man named Jeff Smith, who in 1998 lay underground in a coffin for three months. But when the experiment ended, he was informed that the Guinness Committee no longer registers this record. Bummer.

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However, the refusal of the Guinness Committee to register such risky records could not stop some daredevils. One of the attempts even ended in tragedy.

In 2012, a Sri Lankan man attempted to break the record of lying in a coffin underground and died during his attempt. It's unfortunate, but somewhat convenient. If you suddenly risk breaking this record, do it anyway where you want to be buried so that the local gravedigger does not have to bother.

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