A youth in Orissa has broken at least 185 beer bottles on his head and about 100 tube lights on his body in an attempt to create a new world record.Ramiya Ranjan Parida, a 20-year-old from Malkangiri, some 700 km from here, demonstrated his feat to hundreds of people in his hometown Wednesday, eyewitnesses said.At the beginning of his stunt, two of Parida's aides beat him up with old tube lights one by one and smashed at least 100 tube lights in the process, Binash Kumar Mishra, a local martial art trainer, told IANS.
After that Parida himself picked up empty beer bottles kept on a table and broke them one by one on his head, Mishra said and added that he broke at least 185 bottles. Parida took just nine minutes and five seconds to break all the tube lights and beer bottles, he added.
"I have been practising it for the past several months and hoped to create a world record," Parida, who teaches martial arts to children in the same town, told IANS over telephone.
"It is the inner confidence that helped me to do the amazing stunt."
He said his feat has been recorded and would be sent to Limca book of records.
Rakesh Kumar Ludam, assistant surgeon of a nearby hospital, who examined Parida before and after, said: "Although he sustained some minor injuries on his head and body, he was absolutely normal after performing such a dangerous stunt. I am really surprised." (IANS)
