It is said that 'records are made to be broken'. It may be an appropriate statement,because whenever a record is broken by you, The way with which world look at you completely changes and you gain more respect from others!
But there are some dangerous records which are made unknowingly by some people and which no one wants to break!
Here in this article we are going to discuss some of the most dangerous records of the world that you will not want to break.
1.Record of Farthest distance survived in a tornado
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On 12th march 2006,a big and dangerous tornado struck the city Portland ,United States. A boy named Matt suter (age :-19 years) was with his Grand father and grandmother in their house. When they Suddenly saw there house to be collapsed with the tornado, Matt was taken away by the tornado and was thrown in a field which was about 398 m away from his Grandfather's house.
It was interesting to note that this distance was equivalent to about 4 big football grounds but there were only little scars discovered on his body and none of his bone was broken.This incident of surviving the longest throw of a tornado is in itself a world record .
2. Record of Longest time spent in a jail
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Born in 1894, Paul Gradle junior, was found guilty in killing a 32 years old man when he was just 17 years old. It was decided that he has to spend 20 years in jail as a punishment of his crime, But because of his good behaviour in jail, his punishment was decreased.However very soon doctor's of jail got to know that he was suffering from some mental disease, knowing about his problem authorities decided to keep him in the jail only.
Paul spent total 68 years and 245 days in the prison and was finally released at the age of 86 years, which became a historic event and his name was mentioned in Guinness book of world records!
3. Record of most failure in driving test
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In 2009 a women from south korea cha Sa soon, passed the written test for her driving license , it was a very happy day for her,as in 2005 she was passed in driving test in her 10th attempt but was failed in written test.
After which she started giving the writing test every day and she every time faced failure in front of him.She spent nearly 2 lakhs 50 thousands as test fee and finally in 2009 she passed the written exam in her 967th attempt.
Due to her strong determination she finally achieved her target and was entitled the record of most number of failures in driving exams.
4. Record of largest number of kidney stones ever removed from a body
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A 45 years old Dhanraj vodille was suffering from stomach ache since past six months, when he approach to a doctor in 2009, Several tests were conducted on him and the problem was found to be of kidney stone present inside his body.
The doctors were unable to predict the total no. of stones present in his body and after an operation of about 4 hours, all kidney stones were removed and he was entitled the record of most number of kidney stones present in a human body,with a total of 1,72,155 stones removed from his body!
This was the first case of removal of so many kidney stones from a body.Before this ,the world record of most kidney stones removed from the body was about 14 thousands from a single person !
5.Record of most escapes from death
An irish man of new york city,U.S.A named Michael meloy was well known by people, as Iron mike,the reason behind his name was, his victory on death in so many attempt of his relatives to kill him.His 5 relatives planned to capture all the money from his insurance, after killing him.
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Michael was a drunken person. One day his relatives give him a glass of beer in which a large no. of sleeping pills were mixed. However the death of Michael was not accepted by the nature and he stand once again after sometime.
He was given turpentine, rat killing pills and bleaching powder mixed with his beer.But every time he was successful in defeating his death!
He was even buried in the snow when temperature was around minus 25 degree celsius but nothing happened to him and he come back home, saying his relatives that he was dying for beer.Relatives give him beer to drunk and when he became drunk again they put gas pipe in his mouth and this time his relatives were finally successful in killing Michael, but was failed in receiving insurance money as they were captured by the policemen and were found guilty for the crime!
