Some hits, some misses as record seekers pursue wacky 'achievements'

LONDON: Manjit Singh, a 59-year-old security consultant from Leicester, England known as the "Ironman", on Thursday pulled a double-decker bus weighing more than eight tons over a distance of 21.2 meters with his hair.

The new record was set in central London to coincide with the fifth annual Guinness World Records Day, which organizers said prompted thousands of people around the world to set some bizarre benchmarks of their own.

For Singh, his latest achievement makes up for the disappointment of 2007, when he failed to break the record for the furthest distance to pull a double-decker bus with the ears.