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.
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