A world record for the length of a toilet queue was set Sunday when 756 people, including Belgium’s former tennis champion and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Justine Henin, lined up for a latrine in central Brussels to raise awareness for the need for clean water on World Water Day [ 22 March 2009]. The event was organised by the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF. “The latrine was of the same design as we use in third world countries — a dry latrine — and we formed the longest queue this morning,” UNICEF spokesman Benoit Melebeck said. ”The Guinness Book of Records told us we needed to get at least 500 people in the queue to get the record,” he said.
Source: Jan Strupczewski, Reuters, 23 Mar 2009
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Justine Henin. Photo: REUTERS/Sebastien Pirlet
REUTERS/Sebastien Pirlet
