Shot! Another Dubai world record
DUBAI: The 6 148 whiskey shots perched atop glasses of energy drink waited for the push that might send them tumbling into the record books – just another night in Dubai, and another chance to make a certain kind of history.
Superlatives like “the world’s biggest” and “the world’s first” are almost as ubiquitous as the skyscrapers and mega-projects that have come to define this city-state on the Arabian Peninsula, home to the tallest building and the busiest international airport on Earth.
With time, this largest-inlife approach has filtered down to more humble and odder pursuits such as last night’s attempt at the world’s longest domino drop shot.
Someone drops a shot glass into a beer, but before you can guzzle it down, another thousand shots drop into another thousand pints behind it, like dominoes.
The Huddle Sports Bar & Grill in Bur Dubai set up more than 6 000 glasses of Camros whiskey and Bazooka energy drink.
“When you say Guinness World Record in Dubai, it’s something everyone will talk about,” said Ahmad Taher, the food and beverage manager at Citymax Hotels, which went for the record.
Before yesterday, the United Arab Emirates held 165 such records, including 129 set in Dubai, according to Guinness.
At the Huddle, the vibration of the speakers in the bar caused a premature drop of some of the shot glasses at about 8.45pm, to the horror of onlookers.
The same thing happened again at 10.09pm, but was stopped by a nimble-fingered bartender.
Five minutes later, another fourth of the shots fell into their glasses before time, sending some workers scrambling to reset the glasses.
But at 11.55pm, Taher pushed over the first glass, the smell of whiskey and energy drink filling the air as the glasses crashed into each other for 55 seconds.
Two hours of counting later, Dubai had its 130th Guinness World Record with The Huddle’s 4 578 correctly fallen shot glasses. – ANA-AP