|
Har Parkash Rishi, who claims to have set more than 20
records, now calls himself Guinness Rishi.
Born in 1942 in a cinema hall in the capital, New Delhi, Rishi
first got into the Guinness Book of World Records in 1990 when,
with two friends, he rode a scooter for 1,001 hours.
The passion to get his name in the record book led him to
perform some bizarre acts, including delivering a pizza from New
Delhi to San Francisco and gulping a bottle of tomato ketchup in
less than four minutes.
He even got his family involved - his wife Bimla holds a 1991
record for writing the world's shortest will: "All to Son".
While it is the tattoos on his body, more than 500 in all, that
brought him fame, Rishi, an auto parts manufacturer by
profession, says the toughest one was stuffing the straws in his
mouth.
"I am the world record holder of 496 straws in my mouth ... For
that record, I needed space, I had to remove every tooth so that
I could put maximum straws in my mouth," Rishi told Reuters
Television before re-enacting the feat on camera.
He is now getting images of global leaders tattooed on his body
to add to images of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, U.S.
President Barack Obama, Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Mahatma
Gandhi, the leader of India's independence movement.
(Writing by Aditi Shah; Editing by Douglas Busvine)
[© 2016 Thomson Reuters. All rights
reserved.] Copyright 2016 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
 |
|
