​'Hair-raising' stunt goes wrong - Times of India

SILIGURI: Like the Biblical Samson, his strength was in his locks. Sailendra Nath Roy had often wowed one and all by achieving incredible feats of strength — even pulling a train — with his tuft of hair. On Sunday, thousands of Siliguri residents watched in helpless horror as the hometown boy died while attempting yet another stunt. The 50-year-old Roy — a home guard and a driver with the Siliguri police — had shot into the Guinness World Rec-ords on March 1, 2011, for "the farthest distance travelled on a zip wire (zip line) using hair". He had achieved the feat at the historic Neemrana Fort Palace in Rajasthan. The official Guinness website says that he had "zip lined the entire 82.5m attached to the zip wire only by his hair, which he tied in a looped ponytail. He wore a safety harness which did not support any of his weight". For the last few days, Roy had been drumming up publicity for his latest attempt: to cross the raging Teesta at the Coronation Bridge by hanging from a wire attached to his tuft of hair. Thousands had gathered on the bridge to cheer Roy. Among them were many who remembered his eye-popping stunt last September, when he had pulled a 41-tonne engine and four coaches of the Darjeeling toy train at New Jalpaiguri railway station for two-and-a-half metres. via Top Stories - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHDaW8KisyA3Fg2no-00-njS4Y2EA&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Hair-raising-stunt-goes-wrong/articleshow/19775113.cms

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