Rickshaw driver makes world record for ‘side wheelie’

A RICKSHAW driver has achieved the world record for the furthest side-wheelie on an automatic tuk tuk. During the day, Jagathish M. operates a taxi service for residents and tourists in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in India — but by night he likes to put his rickshaw to a slightly different use.

Jagathish spends countless hours practicing extreme stunts using his automatic tuk tuk — and claims his speciality is side-wheel driving.

Jagathish has now smashed his way into the Guinness World Record book for driving the vehicle on just two wheels. For the record, Jagathish was required to drive the rickshaw a minimum of one kilometre but he more than doubled this and ended up covering a whopping 2.2km distance and managed to achieve the impressive feet by revving his tuk tuk up to 50mph before using the steering wheel to tip it onto two wheels.

INDONESIA’S anti-drugs agency has proposed building a prison on an island guarded by crocodiles to hold drug convicts, an official said.

The proposal is the pet project of anti-drugs Chief Budi Waseso, who plans to visit various parts of the archipelago in his search for fierce reptiles to guard the jail.

“We will place as many crocodiles as we can there. I will search for the most ferocious type of crocodiles,” he said.

Crocodiles would be better at preventing drug traffickers from escaping prison as they cannot be bribed — unlike human guards. But he is banking on the convicts lacking Roger Moore’s crocodile-running skills showcased in Bond movie, Live and Let Die when he escapes from an island using the reptiles as stepping stones.

The plan is still in the early stages, and neither the location nor potential opening date of the jail has been decided.