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Sparrow ruins domino record attempt
A sparrow knocked over 23,000 dominoes in the Netherlands, nearly ruining a world record attempt, before an exterminator shot it dead. Humans? Why do they hate me? The unfortunate bird flew through an open window at an exposition centre in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden yesterday, where employees of the television company Endemol NV have worked for weeks setting up more than four million dominoes. They were preparing to break the official Guinness World Record for falling dominoes on Friday night. Only a system of 750 built-in gaps in the chain had prevented the bird from knocking most or all of the dominoes over ahead of schedule, according to organisers of "Domino Day". An exterminator shot the bird with an air rifle while it cowered in a The organisers are out to break their own record of 3,992,397 dominoes, set last year, with a new record of 4,321,000, which marks the seventh time that the Dutch team have taken the title. Posted by: Jackal 2005-11-15 |
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