Cockroaches threaten Singapore record bid
Cockroaches are threatening to scuttle a bid to break the domino toppling record in Singapore.
Ma Lihua, a 24-year-old domino laying expert from Beijing, has been painstakingly setting up 350,000 of the tiles for next Monday’s attempt.
But she said she has been having nightmares after one bug managed to knock down 10,000 dominoes – a whole day’s work.
“I am quite nervous about it happening again,” she said.
Organisers have spread pungent leaves from a local tree – thought to repel the insects – around Singapore Expo hall where Ma is staging the record attempt.
Plastic barriers have also been set up within the arrangement to minimise the damage if any of the 350,000 dominoes start to fall.
The current record was set by German Klaus Friedrich, who single handledly set up and toppled 281,581 dominoes in 1984. The Guinness Book of World Records says the most dominoes ever toppled in one go by a group was 3,847,295.
