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Most people floating on noodles: Lake Lotawana sets world record (Video)

  Sunday, July 18, 2010
  Most people floating on noodle  - Weatherby Lake residents set world record
  WEATHERBY LAKE, Mo., USA -- 940 people (residents of Weatherby Lake along with friends and relatives) gathered to celebrate the Fourth by bringing foam noodles and floating in the lake during an event organized by Pete Pierce , setting the world record for the Most people floating on noodle in a lake .

 Photo: Residents of Weatherby Lake and their friends and relatives gathered to try to set a world record with their noodling in the Platte County lake. Photo Susan Pfannmuller ( enlarge photo )

   The instigator: Pete Pierce, who owns a house on Weatherby Lake in Platte County and who thought it “would be cool if we could have the entire lake noodled at one time.”

   "I've always said I'd like to set frivolous world records," Pierce told The Kansas City (Mo.) Star. "This fits into my goal. It's just fun."

   The police chief and mayor were on hand as official witnesses.

    Pierce's first noodle party occurred in 2007. The folks at Guinness World Records told him they didn't have a category for most people floating on noodles in a lake . GWR (Guinness World Records) notified them that they “are not able to accept this as a Guinness World Record stating “it is not something for which we are currently interested in listing as a record...”

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