Man Spends 266 Hours Awake For World Record, Now Feels Stupid

This is how clock tower sniper rampages start… A bleary-eyed researcher who normally sleeps like a log went to bed yesterday claiming a world record after staying awake for more than 11 days and nights. But when Tony Wright, 43, finally regains wakefulness today after catching up on his sleep, he could be in for […]

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This is how clock tower sniper rampages start...

A bleary-eyed researcher who normally sleeps like a log went to bed yesterday claiming a world record after staying awake for more than 11 days and nights.

But when Tony Wright, 43, finally regains wakefulness today after catching up on his sleep, he could be in for a cruel awakening. The human guinea pig will discover that he may have given up ten hours too early to claim the crown.

It turns out that the real record is for 276 hours, set by a Finnish man but expunged from the Guinness Book of World Records because they feared it would encourage people to staple open their eyelids and indulge in round-the-clock coffee enemas to match it.

Man who stayed up for 266 hours awakes to bad news [Times Online]