Monday, 24 March 2014

World Record Attempt #4: Trampolining (from the archive)

Tomorrow I hope to bounce my way into the record books by trampolining higher than anyone in history.  My target height is 200 feet.

In order to gain sufficient momentum to achieve this amazing feat I shall be leaping out of a hot air balloon half a mile up. The key to success will be actually landing on the trampoline.

I have taken safety precautions. Should strong winds blow me off target Uncle Patrick will be on hand to throw grandmother underneath me to break my fall.

The current world record trampoline bounce is held by Hilda Wilcox, a 96 year old from Hull. She inadvertently smashed the previous record when she tumbled drunkenly from her fifth floor balcony whilst demonstrating the Lambada.

Her landing on a neighbour’s trampoline was fortuitous to say the least, and breaking the previous record even more so. Sadly her luck ran out as she was bounced into a sewage reprocessing plant where she drowned in vat of excrement.

Fingers crossed the same doesn’t happen to me.

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