Gum Wrapper Chain Champion
Recently we have featured sites that showed the world’s largest rubber band ball, and another ball with more coats of paint on it than anything else in the world. What could we find that would rival or even make those sites pale by comparison. It took a little looking, but today’s Warped site may just qualify.
The site today is the official site of Gary Duschil, the Guinness World Record holder for a Gum Wrapper Chain. He has been working on it since March 11th, 1965. Now, thirty one years later, the chain has reached a length of 48,077 feet, and contains 1,124,044 gum wrappers. To help put that into perspective, that is 9.1 miles, 160 football fields, 32 Empire State Buildings, or 26 CNN Towers.
This Virginia Beach man offers to let visitors into his piece of history. Send him your signed used wrappers and he will use them in his chain. If you include your email address, he will send you information on where they appear in the chain. There are also instructions on the site on how to create your own chain, just in case you want to make one of your own. If you think about giving Gary a run for his money, you had better get started, he doesn’t look like he’s going to be slowing down in the near future.
http://www.gumwrapper.com/
