Weird Wackos Of The World.....

Can anyone beat this crazy guy?


Ken Edwards ate 36 cockroaches in 1 minute on The Big Breakfast show in London in 2001. (If you are still reading this) He is a retired rat-catcher and part-time entertainer who took to the stage at 18.

His talent for bizarre acts was unveiled on a TV show when he was 39. His 47 rats-down-the-trouser trick made him a celebrity overnight. About eating cockroaches, he says, "It's like having an anaesthetic at the back of the throat."

Between Ken and a nuclear war, we guess roaches'd prefer the latter because having lived unchanged for over 320 million years, they are the only creatures equipped to survive a nuclear war.

Strange World Records - Link

Looks like this fad has caught up in the past elsewhere too:

An animal rights group called Tuesday for a North American theme park operator to cancel a competition in which people will try to break the world cockroach-eating record.

Theme park operator Six Flags Inc, based in New York, is staging the contest as part of a promotion leading up to Halloween in which it is also offering customers free entry or line-jumping advantages if they eat a live Madagascar hissing cockroach.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said it had been flooded with calls from children, adults and even anonymous employees of Six Flags opposing the record-breaking contest and the overall promotion.

“Insects do not deserve to be eaten alive especially for a gratuitous marketing gimmick,” PETA spokeswoman Jackie Vergerio told Reuters.

The competition to beat the world cockroach eating record is being held Friday at a Six Flags park in Gurnee, Illinois. Anyone who beats the record will win a season pass for four people for 2007 with VIP queue-jumping status.

Competitors will try to break the current world record, which is held by Ken Edwards of Derbyshire, England, who devoured 36 Madagascar hissing cockroaches in one minute in 2001.

However Six Flags spokesman James Taylor said the only complaints the company had received were from people who did not have the opportunity to sign up and eat a cockroach because only 12 of its 30 parks in the United States, Canada, and Mexico were participating in the promotion.

Taylor dismissed any health concerns, saying the cockroaches were raised in a sterile environment and were as safe to eat as shrimp or lobster with high nutritional value.

Madagascar hissing cockroaches are large, wingless cockroaches that can grow to between 1.5 to 3 inches.

Taylor said no one who had indulged in this rare delicacy had complained.

“It’s something that’s supposed to be scary, it’s icky, it’s gross, it’s Halloween fun and it’s just one small part of the haunted houses and thrilling rides going on.”



Cockroach-eating contest bugs animal group!!!

And here's another freakin' muncher:

Cockroach-eating record bid

An Indian man hopes to get his name in the record books by eating 50 cockroaches in a minute.

Ramesh Kumar, from the southern city of Coimbatore, says he has eaten cockroaches since childhood.

He says he has developed a taste for the pests and also claims a fondness for other insects and lizards.

The goldsmith told Asian News International the current cockroach eating record was 36 in a minute but he was confident of eating 50.

He said: "I do not have any kind of fear from them. One day I tried to taste a cockroach and I liked it very much and thought of making a record by it."

The 26-year-old is also planning to stay in a glass case filled with 25,000 cockroaches for three days.

Cockroaches' nuclear war survival capability seems to be the single most widely known fact about insects.

I can't help thinking that it is actually no more than a theory though.

Anyone has something equally weird to share?

Batman wrote:9. His 47 rats-down-the-trouser trick made him a celebrity overnight. About eating cockroaches, he says, "It's like having an anaesthetic at the back of the throat."

Between Ken and a nuclear war, we guess roaches'd prefer the latter because having lived unchanged for over 320 million years, they are the only creatures equipped to survive a nuclear war.

Strange World Records - Link

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It is popularly suggested that cockroaches will "inherit the earth" if humanity destroys itself in a nuclear war. Cockroaches do indeed have a much higher radiation resistance than vertebrates, with the lethal dose perhaps 6 to 15 times that for humans. However, they are not exceptionally radiation-resistant compared to other insects, such as the fruit fly.[17]

The cockroach's ability to withstand radiation better than human beings can be explained in terms of the cell cycle. Cells are most vulnerable to the effects of radiation when they are dividing. A cockroach's cells divide only once each time it molts, which is weekly at most in a juvenile roach. Since not all cockroaches would be molting at the same time, many would be unaffected by an acute burst of radiation, but lingering radioactive fallout would still be harmful.[18]

Cockroaches and other insects may be more resistant to radioactivity than human beings, but i can't help thinking that the local detonation of the equivalent of a million tons of TNT makes them feel equally uncomfortable.

Similarly with regard to the absence of any sunlight reaching ground level for a year or two.

I found this on youtube and it looks very freaky to me . . .

And then there was this guy who wrote a guide on how to forum as well . . .

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:And then there was this guy who wrote a guide on how to forum as well . . .

Here's some real wacky wackos who munch the whole range available in the video....Roaches, Lizards, Worms, Earthworms....works!!!!!

Very disturbing video.

Tell ya that Chinese are the wackiest of 'em all.....

Gross Buffet - Link

Just seeing this amde me feel

Grossy's day out. I wonder if her Boyfriend kissed her after seeing her do this.....






He probably went and

I wonder how many of you saw the original Creep Show Movie, especially the scientist and the roaches episode?

What a Discovery.....