A local man was surprised today to find out he broke the world record for asking for a cigarette from random strangers a total of 5,132 times in just 24 hours.
Television camera crews surrounded the man at about 4.30pm this afternoon, after news leaked that the record had been broken.
“I had no idea it was that many times,” he said. “Did I win a prize?”
He added that all it really took was dedication and always searching for new people to ask, whether they had a cigarette in their hand or not.
“The secret is to just ask anyone, regardless of if I was already smoking or not.”
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