Balancing of 16 spoons on face world record set by School Boy

[Mr.BaD BoY]

As he placed the 16th spoon delicately on the end of his nose, Joe Allison felt a huge rush of achievement.

For at the age of nine, he had broken a world record.

The schoolboy beat the previous record for balancing spoons on the face, by just one.


After his success, he said there wasn't really a secret to the art, adding: "The spoons just stick on and I don't really know how.

"It's something I can do easily and I know I'll make 17 one day but I'll probably have to wait until I grow a bit so there's some more space on my forehead."

Joe discovered his talent two years ago when his cousin challenged him to balance a spoon on his nose.

His mother Fenella, 42, a swimming teacher, said: "I'm really, really proud of him because he can do something that no one else in the world can do.

"Apparently it's always youngsters who beat the record because they have slightly greasier skin.

"It works even better if Joe's sweaty but I don't let him get away without washing."

Joe, who lives with his mother and father Peter in Totnes, Devon, is to appear on the TV show Britain's Got Talent - where he will hang the spoons from his face and do a jig.

The previous world record belongs to Tim Johnston, 16, who balanced 15 stainless steel spoons on his face for 30 seconds at Havens High School, Piedmont, California, on May 28, 2004.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Tim balanced "one on each ear, two on each cheek, three on his chin, two on his lips, one on his nose and three on his forehead".

A Guinness spokesman said photographs and video of Joe's record attempt would be examined before the record is made official.

[delilah]

interesting...did you see any picture of that guy by any chance? I would love to see that!

[habijabi]

@ jonab kharap balok: i cant see the images given

[Bristir Chhonde]

hmmm really interesting. thanks for sharing....

images:

[habijabi]

how the hell is that possible! what did he do? glued the spoons to his face? or i must be seeing things!

[dark_saint]

...marattok

[ChickenKing]

umm...

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now thats what you call --- " man with MAGNETIC personality "

[Mr.BaD BoY]

Sristikortar ajib Sristi.....

[Mr.BaD BoY]

Liew Thow Lin is known as the "Magnetic Man" of Malaysia, because of his incredible ability to stick metal objects to his body.




After a deep medical study, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) lecturer Nasrul Humaimi Mahmood said this ability was probably associated with "suction properties in his skin." Professor Dr. Mohamed Amin Alias, from UTM's electrical engineering faculty in Johor, agreed.

After seeing Liew perform, the professor did research on the matter, and decided, "His skin has a special suction effect that can help metal stick to it." "These powers are not an illusion," he said, "That is why his two sons and two grandchildren also have the magnetic-like ability.

They have his genes." Dr. Atsusi Kono, former chief physician at the Djo Si Idai Hospital in Tokyo, was so impressed with a Russian he saw doing this stunt, that he commented: "There is absolutely no doubt that the objects stick as if their bodies were magnetic."

Dr. Friedbert Karger of the Max Planck Institute in Germany, in January 1997, investigated another "magnetic man" named Miroslaw Magola who was born in Poland in the 1960s, and was able to demonstrate the ability "to pick up a cup from the floor without touching it, and to control its suspension in mid-air."