Posted on 12/05/2012 9:29:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
Roswell’s Salvation Army is working to break the record for longest continuous kettle bell ringing.
Starting on December 11, Ryan Gass plans to ring a bell for 65 hours, breaking last year’s record of 60 hours and 10 minutes.
Friend, co-worker and Salvation Army colleague Jim Ridgway has been training Gass over the past week and will do so until it’s time to start.
“Ryan's been in training at this undisclosed location for a week now,” Ridgway said. “He's got another week to go, and we work him ten hours a day so he's used to staying up all day and all night.”
Gass will be representing not just Roswell, but the state of New Mexico and the Southwest Division of the Salvation Army in his quest to make it almost three days with no sleep, no stopping, just ringing.
“A lot on the line,” Captain Beau Perez of the Roswell Salvation Army said. “But he’s got a secret facility, an excellent coach, and I think other competitors have fine game but I think he will prevail and we’ll bring home another world record for Roswell.”
Perez, Ridgway and Gass said the preparation is fun and so is the idea of breaking a record, but where the money will go is the most important thing.
“The world championship is on the line, but the reason we're really doing this is to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry,” Ridgway said. “That's what the Salvation Army does, that's what they do, that's what they use this money for.”
My blood pressure and tension levels soar from even five seconds of Salvation Army kettle bell ringing.
Good Christmas time story. Thanks. I’m proud to say I’m a bellringer for the awesome Captains David and Marika Payton from Lynn,Ma. If you know Mass. then you know Lynn is not the greatest city around. The saying goes: Lynn, Lynn, city of sin, you never go out the way you went in.
In big letters on the side of the Lynn Salvation Army building it says: Lynn, Lynn, city of HIM!
Is there a record for the most time and effort expended to break a silly and pointless record?
There are chock full of them recorded.
No, I don’t want chock full of them, I want the one single one which is the world record.
That’s great, but how about the long standing bell unringing record?
Roswell. Figures. Aliens.
When they tinkled together
They played ‘Stormy Weather’
And lightning shot out of his .....
Did you know that some of the Australian defenders at Rabuel, New Guinea, 1942, were Salvation Army conscripts? No kidding.
No possible way he can top this bell ringer ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQJY-pch6FA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Another ‘dead ringer’?
On a more serious note, with all the problems in this world, can’t we find s better outlet for this excess energy? Go work in a shelter or go raise funds for a charity. But wait, there is no publicity in serving others so let’s just go ring a bell for 65 hours!
After Quasimodo's death, the bishop of the Cathedral of Notre Dame sent word through the streets of Paris that a new bell ringer was needed. The bishop decided that he would conduct the interviews personally and went up into the belfry to begin the screening process. After observing several applicants demonstrate their skills, he had decided to call it a day. Just then, an armless man approached him and announced that he was there to apply for the bell ringer's job. The bishop was incredulous. "You have no arms!" "No matter," said the man. "Observe!" And he began strikng the bells with his face, producing a beautiful melody on the carrilon. The bishop listened in astonishment, convinced he had finally found a replacement for Quasimodo. But suddenly, rushing forward to strike a bell, the armless man tripped and plunged headlong out of the belfry window to his death in the street below. The stunned bishop rushed to his side. When he reached the street, a crowd had gathered around the fallen figure, drawn by the beautiful music they had heard only moments before. As they silently parted to let the bishop through, one of them asked, "Bishop, who was this man?" "I don't know his name," the bishop sadly replied, "but his face rings a bell."
sorry
Lets put up a webcam and go viral on the net. Better than those Kardashian wierdos.
"...AND SELL MORE EARPLUGS."
Did you know that some of the Australian defenders at Rabuel, New Guinea, 1942, were Salvation Army conscripts? No kidding.
No I didn’t. Your post has lead me to read about that terrible battle and the recruitment of Salvation Army conscripts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rabaul_%281942%29
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