LITHUANIA: LITHUANIAN MAN PULLS JEEP AND FIVE PASSENGERS USING ONLY HIS FACIAL HAIR.

Record ID: 648047

  • Title: LITHUANIA: LITHUANIAN MAN PULLS JEEP AND FIVE PASSENGERS USING ONLY HIS FACIAL HAIR.
  • Date: 6th July 2002
  • Summary: TELSHIAI, LITHUANIA (JULY 6, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. ANTANAS KONTRIMAS, CHAMPION BEARD PULLER, CHATTING WITH SPECTATORS 2. CLOSE UP OF BEARD 3. CLOSE UP OF BELT 4. LAND ROVER JEEP PULLING UP 5. KONTRIMAS DIRECTING DRIVER 6. VARIOUS OF KONTRIMAS CONNECTING BELT TO JEEP 7. ONE OF THE SOLDIERS WHO WILL SIT ON THE JEEP BEING WEIGHED 8. KONTRIMAS GETTING READY FOR PULL 9. SOLDIERS WATCHING 10. KONTRIMAS TYING BEARD TO BELT 11. SOLDIERS WATCHING 12. VARIOUS OF KONTRIMAS PULLING JEEP WITH HIS BEARD 13. CLOSE UP OF WHISKERS CAUGHT IN BELT 14. GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS CERTIFICATE 15. (SOUNDBITE)(Lithuanian) KONTRIMAS, ANSWERING REPORTERS QUESTION WHY DO YOU DO IT? SAYING: "Satisfaction! It's not necessarily about keeping my beard short, just getting some hairs pulled out each time!" REPORTERS QUESTION: "How do you care for your beard?" ANSWER: "Beer, beer and more beer!" REPORTERS QUESTION: "How much beer do you drink each day?" ANSWER: "Up to five litres!" 16. VARIOUS OF KONTRIMAS POURING THEN DRINKING A BEER AFTER SHOW Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st July 2002 13:00
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  • Location: Lithuania
  • Country: Lithuania
  • Reuters ID: LVADUOBVGH8MKRDQJWX09CAKX97Q
  • Story Text: Antanas Kontrimas, already well-known in the small
    Baltic state of Lithuania for having the longest beard in the
    country, has now proved it is also the strongest by pulling a
    jeep and five passengers using his long whiskers.



    At a military exhibition in the Lithuanian city of
    Telshiai on Saturday (July 6), the man with Lithuania's
    longest beard pulled a military jeep and five soldiers over a
    distance of 13.35 meters using only his facial hair.

    Antanas Kontrimas, three times Guinness world champion,
    pulled the vehicle and passengers down a racetrack with the
    2907 kilogram force stretching his beard as far as it would
    go.

    The spectacle was not an attempt at the Guinness world
    record but a show put on for the military games of the
    Lithuanian army.

    After the pull, Kontrimas seemed surprised he had only lost
    a few whiskers in the performance.

    Kontrimas, who weighs 135 kilograms, said he had to give
    up beer for a week before the event, normally he would gulp
    down five litres of his favourite homebrew daily.

    "Beer, beer and more beer," is the secret Kontrimas credits
    to the strength of his whiskers.

    Kontrimas, who holds the world record for lifting a girl
    weighing 61,3 kilograms with his beard said he is keen to try
    a new attempt at the record in August (2002).



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