Finns Set a Record by Flinging Phones at Their Crazy Competition

The Finnish might have a backcloth inmaking telephone set , but they ’re also into throwing them . This twelvemonth , at the 13th annual Mobile Phone Throwing World Championship , Finnish Ere Karjalainenset a raw recordby launch an honest-to-god Nokia 332 feet .

While the Finns are hail this cam stroke as a new world record , Engadget find oneself that a Brit , Chris Hughff , threw a 337 footer at a like competition in Belgium originally this twelvemonth , attain this new record Finland - only . patently there ’s a minuscule ( insane ) contention about whether Hughff ’s track record is actually official , but at the final stage of the day the important matter here is that Finns are getting together to try and hold Nokias as far as humanly potential every twelvemonth . That ’s a national pastime I could get into . [ Engadget ]

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