A video of a gardener from London breaking a world record on a high speed sofa has been a surprise online hit, having been viewed on You Tube more than 70,000 times, uploaded to countless other video sharing sites, featured on The Sun Online and carried by 2,000 bloggers.
London, UK (PRWEB) June 8, 2007 -- A video of a gardener from London breaking a world record on a high speed sofa has been a surprise online hit, having been viewed on You Tube more than 70,000 times, uploaded to countless other video sharing sites, featured on The Sun Online and carried by 2,000 bloggers.
And now the brilliant final edit, which features a high speed spin, has today been uploaded by the sponsor. See it at www.sofa.com/sofarecord.
Marek Turowski, 38, from South London, won an eBay charity auction run by Sofa.com for the privilege of being behind the wheel, with cash going to The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths.
The previous record of 87mph was set in 1998 by engineer Ed China - the man who built the new wacky machine for company sofa.com.
Despite being disappointed about seeing his crown slip, he added: "At least I still have the constructor's title to boast about."
The record attempt was witnessed and verified by a representative of The Guinness Book of World Records and the feat will appear in the next published edition.
The record was broken in May at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome in Lutterworth Leicestershire on a two mile long 60 metre wide racing straight normally used to test top-secret specialist Ministry of Defence projects.
Selling Sofas:
Sofa.com (www.sofa.com) is the UK's newest and best sofa retailer providing beautiful, well made, generously proportioned and practical sofas. The sofas are covered in seriously good natural fabrics and represent outstanding value. More often than not they can be delivered immediately. Sofa.com sells online and over the phone. It was started in September 2006 by Pat Reeves and Rohan Blacker, founders of Deliverance, London's renowned home-delivery food business.
In an Excellent Cause:
Sofa.com was pleased to donate 100% of proceeds from the auction to The Foundation for the study of Infant Deaths (FSID) which is the UK's leading baby charity aiming to prevent unexpected deaths in infancy and promote infant health (www.sids.org.uk). FSID fulfils these aims by:
- Funding research
- Supporting families whose babies have died suddenly and unexpectedly
- Disseminating information on infant health, baby care and sudden infant deaths to health professionals and the general public
- Working with professionals to improve investigations when a baby dies
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