{"id":279847,"date":"2016-11-18T07:18:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T06:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bungee-dunk-daredevil-dips-biscuit-in-tea-during-73-meter-dive-video\/"},"modified":"2016-11-18T07:18:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T06:18:58","slug":"bungee-dunk-daredevil-dips-biscuit-in-tea-during-73-meter-dive-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bungee-dunk-daredevil-dips-biscuit-in-tea-during-73-meter-dive-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Bungee dunk\u2019 daredevil dips biscuit in tea during 73-meter dive (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2016.11\/thumbnail\/582dad17c36188371b8b462e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        One bungee jumper brought a significantly greater level of peril to the quintessentially British habit of dipping biscuits in tea by dunking a chocolate snack while plummeting more than 70 meters (230ft).<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Simon Berry, 24, leapt from a towering platform erected by the shore of Bray Lakes, Berkshire, holding a chocolate Hobnob biscuit \u2013 and managed to dunk it into a tea-filled mug some 73.41 meters below.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, the Berkshire man has pulverized the previous 60.5-meter bungee tea-dunk record set by American Ron Jones back in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The incredible feat came on the 12th annual Guinness World Records Day, which saw more than 600,000 attempt to break into the record books.<\/p>\n<p>In footage of his bizarre record, Berry can be seen munching on a biscuit prior to his sky-high record attempt.<\/p>\n<p>A GoPro fitted to his head provides a unique and queasy perspective of bungee biscuit dunking, while a shoreside camera picked things up in slow-motion.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGoing down and having to nail that cup of tea was tricky,\u201d<\/em> Berry said afterwards. <em>\u201cThe feeling in my chest and seeing everyone smile was fantastic.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Berry\u2019s name is now enshrined in biscuit folklore and he has received a Guinness World Record certificate acknowledging his stunt.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xIvUYlXUD3c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><center\/><\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/367255-bungee-biscuit-record-berkshire\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One bungee jumper brought a significantly greater level of peril to the quintessentially British habit of dipping biscuits in tea by dunking a chocolate snack while plummeting more than 70 meters (230ft). Simon Berry, 24, leapt from a towering platform erected by the shore of Bray Lakes, Berkshire, holding a chocolate Hobnob biscuit \u2013 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-279847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}