Man stuffs mouth with 16 cockroaches in record bid
Oct 25 2009
LANSING, Mich.— A Michigan pet store employee got himself a mouthful of cockroaches _ on purpose. The Lansing State Journal reported Sean Murphy on Friday stuffed 16 Madagascar hissing cockroaches into his mouth. He was trying to set a new Guinness World Records mark and said the old record was 11.
Murphy initially got 12 squirming cockroaches into his mouth, but then kept adding them until he got to 16. He says it was a "big surprise" since he's never fit that many in his mouth before "in one try."
No mention was made of whether any of the cockroaches were hissing at the time, nor how many roaches the store keeps in inventory.
The employee of Preuss Pets in Lansing says each cockroach was at least 2 1/2 inches long. Murphy says he might try for 20 next year. A video of the feat was posted on the newspaper's Web site.
Murphy's effort would need to be certified by Guinness for it to be official.
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Information from: Lansing State Journal, http://www.lansingstatejournal.com
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