Here we go again. China seems to be the kind of place where P.T. Barnum and the Ripley’s Believe it or Not folks could retire happily. Recently we gave you the stainless steel pot-eater, and today we’ve got this dude holding five chairs in his teeth in a Hong Kong shopping mall.
I don’t completely understand the marketing strategy here. Back when I lived in Hong Kong, frenzied shoppers were so interested in buying gems and designer luggage that they never even would have noticed a guy chomping down on five chairs.
So, have they done research and isolated a demographic that has money and would love to spend it, but only if they can go someplace and see carnival freaks at the same time? “Grab your wallet, honey, the fire-eating geeks are performing at Jimmy Choo!”
Guo Guozhi, one of the “China’s Top Ten Extraordinary Men”, uses his teeth to lift 5 chairs, each measuring 1.1m in length and 3.1 kg (6.8 pounds), at a shopping mall in Hong Kong February 9, 2007. REUTERS/Paul Yeung
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Sorry — is this seat taken?
- Posted by John C AbellTaken just seconds before collapse, Guo gets ready for the applause, unfortunately the attempt ended in disaster as his dentures came loose his face was indented by falling wood.
- Posted by DJI almost instantly became bored of the chair man.
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks