- Just trying to set the record for the creepiest intro.
The Guinness Book of World Records is filled
with basically every record you could possibly imagine.
And most of them are harmless like the longest hair
or the baldest person.
But then are those records that people literally
have risked their lives for and were incredibly dangerous.
Kids do not try these at home, or adults.
Nobody try these.
Here are the 10 most dangerous world records.
Number 10 is the heaviest car balanced on a head.
If you ever plan to take on any of the records set
by this man, you'd better have the strongest neck
of all time because he just might.
For over 20 years, John Evans has been balancing
large objects on his head without leveling weights
or even his hands.
The 70-year-old Englishman performs incredible feats
for parties and marketing events even selling
ad space on some of the large items
that sway back and forth above him
while being stared at by odd witnesses.
Oh my God that man might die!
Also suddenly I need car insurance.
His most impressive record is likely having
the largest car balanced on someone's head,
a red Mini that weighted a whopping 161.5 kilograms.
As you could imagine, his doctors want him
to stop right now, as the strain on his neck
is insanely high, especially 'cause he's 70.
But Evans still pushes himself.
He's so unbelievable that even the great Stan Lee
has dubbed him a real life superhero.
Number nine are the most rattlesnakes in a mouth.
If you haven't figured it out yet,
it seems like people will do anything
to obtain a world record, up to and including
revealing their dominance over animals.
Or perhaps it's simply revealing one's ability
to not be killed by said animals.
Jackie Bibby is one of those people,
and he's obsessed with rattlesnakes.
In fact, he's obsessed that he continued working
with them every day despite losing his right leg
after receiving a nasty bite during a stunt.
Bibby holds five Guinness world records
because of the rattlesnakes, which include
being a bathtub with 195 of them,
more than any other person ever has.
But among all of them, his greatest is holding
13 rattlesnakes in his mouth at the same time.
But for some reason, this record has never been broken
or even attempted.
Hmm, I wonder why.
Number eight is a human ramp on a bed of nails.
Why simply taken on a dangerous world record
when you can take on an absurd and insanely dangerous one.
Well that's exactly what Simone Calatti would say
who on May 12th, 2013, decided to lay down
on a bed of nails while supporting a metal ramp
that ran from over his head to the floor
by his feet.
One by one, 31 motorcycles ran over the Italian performer
over and over while he supported them with his body
setting a new and utterly bizarre world record
in the process.
And it turns out Calatti isn't the only one
with such a strange death wish as on October 26, 2015,
Bernaby Q Orbachs, which by the way is just the best
name ever, smashed the standing record
by laying down on his own bed of nails
in Vancouver, British Columbia and allowing
70 motorcycles to drive over him.
Okay guys, I'm ready.
Yup, there's some special people in this world.
Number seven is eating an entire plane.
Oh, if your hunger for breaking a world record
is matched only by your hunger for eating things
that are not actually edible, then this could be yours.
Michael Letito, a man from Grenoble, France
who's better known as Mr. Eat All,
was diagnosed with pica at an early age
and had a craving for eating metal.
He turned those cravings into a career
making a show of the over one kilogram of material
that he would consume every day.
During the early 1980s, Letito took on the biggest challenge
when he consumed an entire Cessna 158 airplane.
It took him two years to finish
and helped get the entertainer the world record
for strangest diet.
Oh, you're making steak for dinner.
No thanks, not hungry right now.
I got my own.
Breaking Mr. Eat All's record would be insanely difficult
especially when you consider that he was handed
his bronze plaque from Guinness, which he promptly ate.
I'm not even kidding.
Number six is the highest wire walk.
The men and women who walk the high wire
do so with an understanding that every step
could be their last.
And for many, that last step has been taken
in front of thousands.
Experienced walkers are always looking
for bigger and more outrageous challenges,
many of them well into their golden years.
But one of the greatest record-setting tight rope
performers was Carl Wallenda, whose career spanned
from 1911 until his death, which occurred in 1978
in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
That's when the 73-year-old fell off his line
to the pavement 37 meters below.
His death proved that no matter how much experience
you have, you can't account for every factor.
And in this case it was high winds and poor rope anchoring.
And if you think this is rare, it's not.
Many people have died since then vying
for the distance record of 130 meters
set by Bello Nock in 2010.
I know this guy this guy passed, but I give him
all kinds of credit.
After all, how many old people do you see
just being like, I can't even walk.
And this guys like I'm just gonna walk all this way,
watch me go.
Number five is the highest parachute jump.
On October 14th, 2012, much of the world watched in awe
as Felix Baumgartner stepped out of the helium balloon
carried pod he descended to the stratosphere in,
and plummeted to the earth breaking the sound barrier
on his way.
Eh, eh, eh, watch me go.
The Australian skydiver fell from an outstanding
39 kilometers up setting multiple records for the trip home.
But of course, records are meant to be broken
and Baumgartner's altitude record was beaten
just two years later by the VP of Google himself,
Alan Eustace.
On October 24th, 2014, the then 57-year-old
executive may a similar, incredibly dangerous leap
but this team from 42.43 kilometers up.
Both men were lucky and prepared enough
to be successful.
But a host of things can go wrong in such jumps
and the smallest miscalculation or error
can lead to a very big splat.
Number four is the fastest moving.
If you are looking for the ultimate thrill
and are willing to take the ultimate risk
to achieve it, then perhaps going faster
than you were ever meant to go is for you.
An unaccountable number of people have set out
to break speed records, be it on the ground,
in the air or water.
And not surprisingly, a great many of them
have lost their lives to the challenge.
On July 14th, 2013, after attempting to break
his own record for the fastest speed traveled
on a conventional motorcycle over a 1.6 kilometer stretch,
the 44-year-old Bill Warner from Florida
lost control at 459 kilometers an hour,
crashed his bike and soon after lost his life
while in the hospital.
His record was set at 476 kilometers an hour
and has yet to be broken.
Number three is jumping the most buses on a motorcycle.
Evel Knievel and his son Robbie are two of the most famous
dare devils of all time, each of them holding
some incredible records in the sport of motorcycle jumping.
On October 25th, 1975, soon after his 37th birthday,
Evel successfully jumped 14 Greyhound buses
for a total of 40.5 meters on a Harley Davidson motorcycle.
And he held that record for over 24 years.
But that doesn't mean that others didn't try
to claim it for themselves.
One of those individuals was 44-year-old Iranian
daredevil Javad Palizbanian, who attempted
to not only break Kinevel's record,
but put it to shame on August 28th, 2005
by jumping 22 buses for a total of nearly 64 meters,
more than 50% further than Evel's jump.
Unfortunately he didn't make it,
crashing into the 13th bus.
And sadly he died on impact, which only made the sport
more popular.
I might be getting old but someone explain
to me how dying makes something more popular, what?
Number two is the deepest dive.
One of the most dangerous records you can take on
doesn't involve speed or height, but depth.
Rebreather deep divers where special pieces
of SCUBA equipment that recirculate the air
they breathe out and provide them
with clean oxygen while they're hundreds
of meters below the ocean surface.
On March 26, 2014, UK free diver Will Goodman
set a world record when he reached a depth
of 290 meters in Indonesia.
It's estimated he made it further but unfortunately
his instruments stopped working due to the pressure.
Others, such as 40-year-old Swiss diver
Bridgette Lenoir, weren't lucky enough
to reach the surface alive.
Man if you go that deep, pressure should be
the last thing on your mind.
You know how many creepy crawly things
are down there, giant squids and stuff
that are just gonna be like I'm gonna eat ya now.
And number one is the highest pool jump.
In 2015 alone, at least 29 cliff jumpers
lost their lives while engaged in the sport,
many of them very experienced in performing such a feat.
Yet still more and more people seem to be flocking
to the dangers of it.
One of them is 29-year-old Brazilian Swiss
extreme athlete Laso Schaller who took high jumping
to the highest limit in recorded history
both literally and figuratively.
Okay everybody, let's see how it goes.
On August 4th, 2014, he stepped off a platform
at the top of the Cascata del Salto,
a waterfall on the Swiss-Italian border
and plunged nearly 59 meters into the pool
at the bottom.
On the way down he hit a velocity of over
122 kilometers an hour and dislocated his hip on impact.
But still he was lucky enough to survive
and got a whole new world record for his trouble.
Raise your hand if you're terribly afraid of heights.
Okay, these are all the people that are not
attempting this.
So those are the 10 most dangerous world records.
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