Singapore succeeds in 'burger-stuffing'

Spurred on by shouts of “shove it in, shove it in”, 19-year-old Don Ezra Nicholas stuffed more than three McDonald’s hamburgers into his mouth – without swallowing – and claimed a new global record at the close of Singapore’s contest to be the world’s wackiest.

The previous burger-stuffing record was set in 1998 by Johnny Reitz, an American who squeezed three into his mouth without spitting or swallowing.

Twenty Singaporeans tried to smash 10 unusual records over the weekend in a bid to make this tiny island nation stand out a bit more on the world map. They broke two.