99-Year-Old Ohio Granny Sets Crowd-Surfing Record After 3-Minute Ride at Texas Concert
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Updated · The Guardian · Oct 9
99-Year-Old Ohio Granny Sets Crowd-Surfing Record After 3-Minute Ride at Texas Concert
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Oct 9
Summary
Guinness World Records recognized an Ohio woman as the oldest person to crowd surf after she rode above a Texas concert crowd at 99 years and 274 days old.
10 seconds was the minimum needed to claim the record, but she stayed aloft for more than three minutes at Brantley Gilbert’s show in Bellville—nearly an entire song.
20,000 fans were at the concert, yet a seated main crowd forced a last-minute switch to the mosh pit, where security helped carry her over a 10-foot gap between stage sections.
The stunt grew out of a bucket-list documentary project with her grandson Ross, whose social-media videos with her have already drawn more than 4 million Instagram followers.
Now 100, she said the videos and public encounters give her purpose and are meant to show people it is never too late to try something new.