Thai couple makes kissing record
A kiss lasting nearly two-and-a-half days propelled one determined
Thai couple to a new record for the world’s longest smooch on
Valentine’s Day, organizers said Friday.
Hospital
security guard Ekkachai Tiranarat, 44, and 33-year-old housewife
Laksana locked lips for 58 hours, 35 minutes and 58 seconds, smashing
last year’s Guinness World Record by more than eight hours.
The
romance of the clinch may have been marred by competition rules
requiring contestants to remain on their feet throughout, slurp food and
liquids through a straw and even go to the toilet while continuing to
press their lips together.
“They
were very exhausted because they did not sleep for two-and-a-half days,
they had to stand all the time so they were very weak,” Sompron
Naksuetrong, vice president of event organiser Ripley’s Believe It or
Not!, told AFP.
The “kissathon” ended shortly before midnight on
Valentine’s Day, with the male couple who won last year unable to
maintain their smooch, collapsing just two minutes before Ekkachai and
Laksana.
The pair won 100,000 baht ($3,300) cash and two diamond rings.
Organisers
said they did not plan to hold another competition next year after
three straight years of bettering the record in Thailand and will wait
for a challenge in another country.
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