10,267 Chinese participants did just that, sitting in a field until it was their turn to topple onto the person behind them. They smashed the world record set in 2000 by a whole order of magnitude.
They even wore colour-coordinated shirts that spelled out their city name, Ordos, in English and Chinese. [Yahoo News and People's Daily Online via Geekosystem]
plenty more where that came from
Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 5:34 AMI’m sure there’s something worhwhile to add to this – but for the life of me I can’t think of it!
DK_Son
Monday, August 16, 2010 at 11:25 AMLike “Oh, finally. Asians being knocked over by something that wasn’t a tank” ?
DoctorOwl
Monday, August 16, 2010 at 3:11 PMWay more boring than it sounded. Maybe they needed to show a sped-up overview of it.