Now THAT' s Metal: Canadian gives self 702 piercings

Man Pierces Record with 702 Needles
By Roberta Rampton

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - With speed-metal music on his headphones and a picture of his deceased mother beside him, a 34-year-old Canadian pinned down the world record for body piercing on Wednesday.



Finishing with one in each nipple, Brent Moffatt pushed 702 needles into his body in a little less than eight hours. Most went into his legs and feet.


He had hoped to reach 1,000 piercings but stopped when the pain became too much to bear.


" I' m in a lot of pain. It feels like somebody' s electrocuting my legs," said Moffatt, a piercer at the Metamorphosis tattoo studio in this Canadian prairie city.


But, he added: " I' m pretty happy. I would' ve liked to do 1,000, but now that I' m done, I realize 700 is a helluva lot. And right now it looks like I' ve been in a car accident ... There' s quite a lot of blood."


The previous world record-holder had 200 piercings.


Moffatt wore gloves and sterilized forceps to carefully lift his skin and slide a lubricated 18-gauge needle in neat lines into his skin. He said a desire " to be different" led him to seek the record, after considering it for a couple years.


Moffatt had already stretched his earlobes with holes almost 1-1/2 inches wide, allowing them to dangle thick steel carabineers normally used for rock-climbing. His eyebrows sport the beginnings of what he hopes will one day be a full Maori mask tattooed on his face.


He prepared for his latest feat by taking antibiotics, getting a good night' s sleep and eating a hearty breakfast.


" You get yourself used to discomfort, because it' s part of the process," Moffatt said, noting his needles are several times thicker than those commonly used to draw blood.


His hands shook lightly as he inserted the needles, and he feared going into shock before reaching his goal, especially while working on tender areas like his inner thighs.


" I' m more nervous about the (television) cameras than the friggin' piercing," he said to a crowd of reporters.


" This is too weird: I' m not used to all this attention."


Moffatt only took a few short breaks for a light lunch and cigarettes. " I just wanted to get it over with," he laughed.


Once done, he left the needles in for more than five minutes. Taking them out, he said, hurt far more than putting them in. He did not expect the holes to scar.


Moffatt said he planned to celebrate with a long bath and would try it again, he answered, " Sure, I' d do it again. After I forget about the pain."


He plans to send a videotape, witness statements and media coverage to Guinness Book of World Records officials in London.

If I seem superhuman I have been misunderstood..

Your sig seems oddly appropriate for this article...

That' s the guy that does all my tats.
I just talked to him not too long ago and he mentioned something like this... never thought he' d do it though.

No pics? damn

No pics? damn

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030116/161/31ztj.html

Ouch!

Wasn' t there a lady on Ripley' s Believe it or Not a month or two ago that had more than that? I think there was even a thread here about her.

Yes, that is quite literally METAL.

" I' m in a lot of pain. It feels like somebody' s electrocuting my legs," said Moffatt, a piercer at the Metamorphosis tattoo studio in this Canadian prairie city.


But, he added: " I' m pretty happy. I would' ve liked to do 1,000, but now that I' m done, I realize 700 is a helluva lot. And right now it looks like I' ve been in a car accident ... There' s quite a lot of blood."

I know I' m not supposed to laugh at others' pain, but this is freaking hilarious!!!

but now that I' m done, I realize 700 is a helluva lot

it took him 700 piercings to realise it' s a lot?

Instead of sticking pins in his body he needs to start sticking cheeseburgers in his mouth. This guys got some weight issues.

I just wanted to point out that this is bullshit. There is no " world record" for body piercing. There are several individuals who have done far more than 1000 needles in one sitting. It' s a practice known as play-piercing, and despite what Guiness says, 700 is not a record by any means. I can pull up records documenting 200, 300, 500, 800, 1000, 1200+ needles in one sitting.

The people who do engage in this extreme behaviour do not do it for recognition in a record book, but for their own personal voyage in body modification and self discovery.

Also, 200 needles has been broken so many times, it' s pathetic. Hell, myself and a friend have placed over 150 needles in someone. This was not even close to a record.

I will give him credit though, for:
1) Using 18 gauge needles; most play-piercing is done at around 25 gauge or so
2) Doing them himself, which is very difficult.

Nevertheless, it' s still not a record.