people are weird ...

Man claims record for most squat thrusts
New Yorker achieved his goal on the back of an elephant in Thailand

This article caught my eye today. Actually, a different version of the same article caught my eye, because it had a catchier headline ("Man does 40 squat thrusts on elephant"), but that article wanted me to register to read it.

So, 52-year-old Ashrita Furman decided he could beat the previous world record of squat thrusts in a minute, which had been 30. The previous record did not involve an elephant.

"To me the real beauty of this record is that I did it on the back of a live elephant," he said. "I've had this dream of doing a record on the back of an elephant for many, many years but I've had no way of really accomplishing it until I came to Thailand."

Hmm ... now, has anybody else been dreaming of setting a record while on the back of an elephant? Or, for that matter, been dreaming anything involving an elephant?

Funny, though, the photo I posted in my previous post was taken while riding an elephant at the circus!