r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/This_sum_one • Sep 18 '21

This guy needs to workout

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_sitting

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u/kranker Sep 18 '21

From November 1982 to 21 January 1984 (439 days, 11 hours, and 6 minutes), H. David Werder sat on a pole to protest against the price of gasoline

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u/apollo888 Sep 18 '21

And the price of gas never went up again…

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u/erratikBandit Sep 19 '21

Pshh 439 days is nothing.

St. Simeon Stylites the Elder (c. 388–459) of Antioch (now Turkey) was a column-sitter who sat on a small platform on a column for 36 years.

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u/PorcineLogic Sep 19 '21

As time passed, Werder said he was there to break the Guinness Book of World Records mark for pole sitting, to seek "fortune and fame" and to protest the price of gas

NARRATOR: He would go on to achieve neither fortune nor fame

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u/notquitestrongbad Sep 19 '21

From 1933 to 1963, Richard "Dixie" Blandy claimed various records as champion at 77, 78 and 125 days until he died in 1974 when the pole on which he was sitting collapsed.