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Move over, Rasputin ...
h/t LRC: http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/no_author/10-records-nobody-wants-to-break/
10 Records Nobody Would Want To Break
http://listverse.com/2014/05/29/ten-records-nobody-would-want-to-break/
Steve Wynalda (29 May 2014)
Many of us dream of setting a world record. Who wouldn’t want to break the record for blowing the world’s biggest bubblegum bubble or owning the largest collection of traffic cones? But some record holders never planned or wanted the record they now hold, and few will seek to dethrone them.
[... continued at link: http://listverse.com/2014/05/29/ten-records-nobody-would-want-to-break/ ...]
5. Longest Time Spent On A Gurney In A Hospital Hallway
Guinness created a new category when Tony Collins, a 40-year-old Brit, reported that he had lain on a gurney for 77 hours and 30 minutes. Collins was a diabetic and caught a virus that sent him to Princess Margaret Hospital at Swindon, England on Saturday February 24, 2001. Told that he would have to wait for a hospital bed, he was put on a gurney in a hallway parked outside the bathroom at 3:00 PM. “I developed a bad back, had no privacy, and had to rely on the nurses to bring me a drink because there was nowhere to rest a jug,” he said. They finally found a room for him at 8:30 PM—on Tuesday.
Ironically, while Guinness was investigating Collins’s claims, he again fell ill and returned to Princess Margaret. This time, he was left on a gurney for 60 hours. As for his record, he said, “Unfortunately, it will probably be the sort of record that gets broken every day in the NHS.” He was referring to the National Health Service, Britain’s government-run, public-funded healthcare system.
Collins’s prediction came true—in March 2013, 62-year-old Herbert Edwards was admitted for a suspected heart attack to Great Western Hospital, also in Swindon. He waited for a room on a gurney for six days, a total of 144 hours. He, however, will not break Collins’s record because he was kept in a “designated area” instead of a hallway. In that same hospital, 41-year-old June Rogers waited 157 hours for a bed, 88 of them on a gurney. She will not break Collins’s record either, because her hours on a gurney were not consecutive.
[... continued at link: http://listverse.com/2014/05/29/ten-records-nobody-would-want-to-break/ ...]
2. Survived The Most Fatal Incidents In One Day
[This involves the police ... of course. - OB]
Dosha, a 10-month-old pit bull mix living with her master in Clearlake, California, had a really bad day on April 15, 2003. That morning, she jumped a fence to escape her yard and was subsequently hit by a pickup truck. Dosha was glassy-eyed and limp when the police arrived. Thinking that the dog was fatally wounded, the cop shot Dosha in the head, just below her right eye, to put her out of her misery. Animal control arrived and put what they thought was a carcass in a plastic bag. They transported Dosha back to the dog pound and loaded her into a freezer. Two hours later, a worker opened the freezer to find Dosha sitting up, still in the bag.
The officer’s bullet had traveled along Dosha’s skull—barely missing her brain—and had lodged in the skin under her jaw. She also suffered from hypothermia but had no broken bones from the initial accident. The bullet fragments were removed, but she was left with some hearing loss in her right ear. For her triple death-defying feat, Guinness dubbed Dosha the luckiest dog in the world.
1. Hardest to Kill
Because they don’t want people competing for this record, Guinness doesn’t have an official category for this. But if they did, there would be a number of runner-ups. There’s the Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin who, in one frenzied night, was poisoned, shot three times, castrated, and dumped in a frozen river before he died. But the record-holder would undoubtedly be Michael Malloy.
Malloy was a 50-year-old Irish immigrant living in New York City in January 1933. He was formerly a fireman, but by then he was homeless and an alcoholic. Five acquaintances hatched a plan to take out three insurance policies on him, then murder him. One of the conspirators owned a speakeasy and gave Malloy an unlimited tab, hoping he’d drink himself to death. But even though Malloy spent nearly every waking moment exercising his elbow, he didn’t die.
Frustrated, the bartender, another conspirator, replaced Malloy’s whiskey with antifreeze. Malloy drank six shots of it before he passed out—but he didn’t die. For a full week, Malloy drank nothing but antifreeze. Next, it was straight turpentine. This was followed by horse liniment mixed with rat poison. When raw oysters marinated in wood alcohol failed to kill him, they tried spoiled sardines sprinkled with carpet tacks. Malloy came back for seconds.
One night, the temperature dropped to -25 degrees Celsius (-14 °F) and the conspirators dumped Malloy in a snow bank and poured water on his bare chest. When that didn’t work, another conspirator rammed Malloy with his taxi, sending the hapless man flying like a rag doll. The conspirator then drove over Malloy for good measure. That put Malloy in the hospital for three weeks, but he returned to the speakeasy, complaining, “I sure am dying for a drink.” Finally, they waited until Malloy passed out, stuck a rubber hose in his mouth, and fixed the other end to a gas outlet. It took an hour and Malloy’s face was purple, but he finally kicked the bucket.
The conspirators would have gotten away with it, but they squabbled over the insurance money loud enough for the police to get wind of the scheme. They were tried and four of the five conspirators were executed in the electric chair. All of them died on the first try.
h/t LRC: http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/no_author/10-records-nobody-wants-to-break/
10 Records Nobody Would Want To Break
http://listverse.com/2014/05/29/ten-records-nobody-would-want-to-break/
Steve Wynalda (29 May 2014)
Many of us dream of setting a world record. Who wouldn’t want to break the record for blowing the world’s biggest bubblegum bubble or owning the largest collection of traffic cones? But some record holders never planned or wanted the record they now hold, and few will seek to dethrone them.
[... continued at link: http://listverse.com/2014/05/29/ten-records-nobody-would-want-to-break/ ...]
5. Longest Time Spent On A Gurney In A Hospital Hallway
Guinness created a new category when Tony Collins, a 40-year-old Brit, reported that he had lain on a gurney for 77 hours and 30 minutes. Collins was a diabetic and caught a virus that sent him to Princess Margaret Hospital at Swindon, England on Saturday February 24, 2001. Told that he would have to wait for a hospital bed, he was put on a gurney in a hallway parked outside the bathroom at 3:00 PM. “I developed a bad back, had no privacy, and had to rely on the nurses to bring me a drink because there was nowhere to rest a jug,” he said. They finally found a room for him at 8:30 PM—on Tuesday.
Ironically, while Guinness was investigating Collins’s claims, he again fell ill and returned to Princess Margaret. This time, he was left on a gurney for 60 hours. As for his record, he said, “Unfortunately, it will probably be the sort of record that gets broken every day in the NHS.” He was referring to the National Health Service, Britain’s government-run, public-funded healthcare system.
Collins’s prediction came true—in March 2013, 62-year-old Herbert Edwards was admitted for a suspected heart attack to Great Western Hospital, also in Swindon. He waited for a room on a gurney for six days, a total of 144 hours. He, however, will not break Collins’s record because he was kept in a “designated area” instead of a hallway. In that same hospital, 41-year-old June Rogers waited 157 hours for a bed, 88 of them on a gurney. She will not break Collins’s record either, because her hours on a gurney were not consecutive.
[... continued at link: http://listverse.com/2014/05/29/ten-records-nobody-would-want-to-break/ ...]
2. Survived The Most Fatal Incidents In One Day
[This involves the police ... of course. - OB]
Dosha, a 10-month-old pit bull mix living with her master in Clearlake, California, had a really bad day on April 15, 2003. That morning, she jumped a fence to escape her yard and was subsequently hit by a pickup truck. Dosha was glassy-eyed and limp when the police arrived. Thinking that the dog was fatally wounded, the cop shot Dosha in the head, just below her right eye, to put her out of her misery. Animal control arrived and put what they thought was a carcass in a plastic bag. They transported Dosha back to the dog pound and loaded her into a freezer. Two hours later, a worker opened the freezer to find Dosha sitting up, still in the bag.
The officer’s bullet had traveled along Dosha’s skull—barely missing her brain—and had lodged in the skin under her jaw. She also suffered from hypothermia but had no broken bones from the initial accident. The bullet fragments were removed, but she was left with some hearing loss in her right ear. For her triple death-defying feat, Guinness dubbed Dosha the luckiest dog in the world.
1. Hardest to Kill
Because they don’t want people competing for this record, Guinness doesn’t have an official category for this. But if they did, there would be a number of runner-ups. There’s the Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin who, in one frenzied night, was poisoned, shot three times, castrated, and dumped in a frozen river before he died. But the record-holder would undoubtedly be Michael Malloy.
Malloy was a 50-year-old Irish immigrant living in New York City in January 1933. He was formerly a fireman, but by then he was homeless and an alcoholic. Five acquaintances hatched a plan to take out three insurance policies on him, then murder him. One of the conspirators owned a speakeasy and gave Malloy an unlimited tab, hoping he’d drink himself to death. But even though Malloy spent nearly every waking moment exercising his elbow, he didn’t die.
Frustrated, the bartender, another conspirator, replaced Malloy’s whiskey with antifreeze. Malloy drank six shots of it before he passed out—but he didn’t die. For a full week, Malloy drank nothing but antifreeze. Next, it was straight turpentine. This was followed by horse liniment mixed with rat poison. When raw oysters marinated in wood alcohol failed to kill him, they tried spoiled sardines sprinkled with carpet tacks. Malloy came back for seconds.
One night, the temperature dropped to -25 degrees Celsius (-14 °F) and the conspirators dumped Malloy in a snow bank and poured water on his bare chest. When that didn’t work, another conspirator rammed Malloy with his taxi, sending the hapless man flying like a rag doll. The conspirator then drove over Malloy for good measure. That put Malloy in the hospital for three weeks, but he returned to the speakeasy, complaining, “I sure am dying for a drink.” Finally, they waited until Malloy passed out, stuck a rubber hose in his mouth, and fixed the other end to a gas outlet. It took an hour and Malloy’s face was purple, but he finally kicked the bucket.
The conspirators would have gotten away with it, but they squabbled over the insurance money loud enough for the police to get wind of the scheme. They were tried and four of the five conspirators were executed in the electric chair. All of them died on the first try.
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