Things that make you go...huh?
A Sri Lankan man has died while trying to set a record for
the longest time spent buried alive. Police said Janaka Basnayake, 24,
buried himself over the weekend with the help of family and friends in a
trench sealed with wood and soil in the town of Kantale, about 137
miles (220 kilometers) north of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo. A local
newspaper reported that the trench was 10 feet (3 meters) deep.
Basnayake was buried at around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Police said that
when he was brought to the surface at 4 p.m., he was unconscious and was
taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Get
this, there's no world record for the longest time buried alive. So the
attempt, which ended his life, was for nothing...sad. Continue
reading...
Dr. D.G. Costa of the Kantale hospital said a post-mortem
could not determine the cause of death and further medical
investigations are being conducted.
Basnayake’s mother, L.D. Leelawathi, said her son had enjoyed
performing unusual acts since his childhood — a liking that grew after
watching movies, the Lankadeepa newspaper reported.
It quoted her as saying that her son had been buried alive on two
previous occasions — for two and a half hours and six hours
respectively.
It was unclear whether there is an official world record for the longest time buried alive.
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