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I bumped into Adham Fisher
I bumped into Adham Fisher yesterday on the orange line, who previously held this record. He was trying to set the record again yesterday. Plus with new orange and red line trains coming eventually the record will probably be broken soon if it hasn't already.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-oxfordshire-42721785/adham-fisher...
Heaviest Twins
Do the two fat guys with beards and cowboy hats riding the mopeds still hold that record?
I always remember this photo
As a kid, I'd buy the Guinness Book every year and these guys were always in there.
me too!
me too! I was fascinated with the Guiness Book when I was a kid. I remember those twins. And the people with the curly fingernails
Surprise witnesses!
Each more surprising than the last
https://twitter.com/deadhomers/status/843096097417576448
McCray Twins
Fun Fact: their weight ballooned after a measles infection damaged their pituitary glands.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/60at60/2015/8/1978-heaviest-twi...
Poorly written headline
Poorly written headline
N/A
I think anybody that can wherever they're going on the MBTA in under 8 hours deserves an award.
but enough about my daily commute
n/t
green line extension ?
green line extension ?
Damn, this was an ambitious record attempt
I wonder if they'd ever try this with the buses, what with them being "MBTA superfans" and all.
Couldn’t do it in a single day
There are too many lines and a lot of rush hour only runs. Miles on the MBTA has done just about all of them, and now he’s going statewide.
Some fellow Guiness World Record Mass-holders
are listed in this Patch article:
https://patch.com/massachusetts/worcester/10-guinness-book-world-records...
Good for them!
Good for them!
"A complex logistical challenge"?
Really, Boston Magazine? I realize it's a happy little offbeat fluff piece, but "complex logistical challenge" is overselling it.
Come to some sort of basis for start location & start time, and decide how to minimize time spent on changes & overlaps. There are only four lines, each of which crosses two or three others, and eleven end points.
I wonder how much more
I wonder how much more difficult it would be to do it if they chose the "wrong" sequence and if the Guiness people were really persnickety about the definition (especially in older days):
We're sorry, the record category is shortest time to complete a full system ride without exiting the system*. You were recorded paying an exit fare (and re-entering) at Braintree on the Red Line. Fail.
*When you think about it, "not exiting the system" would be part of the definition. Otherwise a person could save time eliminating repeats of in & out the full length of a branch by hoofing it between, say, Reservoir & Cleveland Circle, or Cleveland Circle & Chestnut Hill Avenue; or having somebody waiting to drive them between Lechmere & BHCC or Lechmere & Kendall.