Manjit Singh is probably a little nuts, but you've got to give him credit for his toughness: Would you pull a double-decker bus by attaching two cables to the bus and clamping the cables to your ears? Neither would I.
But Singh did, in fact, pull a double-decker bus with his ears, all in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record. Singh has a thing for setting records -- he's set a bunch of them -- and a thing for pulling buses: His next record attempt will come on Nov. 12, when he'll try to set the record for the farthest distance to pull a double-decker bus with his hair.
Singh, who was born in India but has lived in England for more than 30 years, is the maanging director of a security company. He said in an interview that he starts every day strengthening his mind through meditation. I would assume he needs to do more than just meditation to strengthen his ears.
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