The lad's no mug (From The Northern Echo)

The lad's no mug

5:50pm Friday 10th February 2012 in News By Chris Webber

A TEENAGE lad reckons he’s no mug but a world record maker after managing to hold 16 mugs in one hand.

Disappointed to miss this year’s Olympics 100 metres final Chris May, 16, of Darlington, has mugged up on other ways to break a world record.

Watch Chris attempt the record again

“I was just in the kitchen, unloading the dishwasher, hanging mugs off my fingers , not even thinking about it, when my friend, Max Wheatcroft, said, ‘hey, how many mugs you got there? You’re not right, man!’ “I think I had about ten and Max just said, ‘keep going, keep going, see how many you can get.’ In the end I got up to 16 and Max said, ‘it’s got to be a record.’ “I went online and the only thing I could find was a bloke who claimed 11 on one hand, which he thought was a record, but isn’t really that hard.

“We ended up on the Guinness World Records site and it turned out there isn’t a category for holding mugs so I emailed an application to be the first world record holder. So far I’ve just had an email back saying they’ve received my application and they’ll be back in due course.

“I haven’t told many people at college just yet because I didn’t want somebody else to beat me and steal my thunder before I got something back from Guinness. I joke that at least I’ll have achieved something in my life as the undisputed world record holder of something.”

Chris is studying for A Levels in Theatre, Law and ICT at Carmel RC College.

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