Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 28, 2016
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Pizza's here! In May 2016, after hiking 19,341 feet to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, a team of Pizza Hut employees set the record for the highest altitude pizza delivery on land! David Kirke, founder of England's Dangerous Sports Club, adapted a medieval rock throwing device called a trebuchet so that humans could be catapulted 55 feet into the air and under two seconds! Using satellite photos, Google Earth and astronomy, William Gadoury, 15, of Lanaudiere, Quebec, discovered an ancient Mayan city in Belize without leaving his province's borders!
meowlin about 8 years ago
Google Earth gives “I can see your house from here” a whole new meaning…
oldpine52 about 8 years ago
David Kirke must really want a Darwin award.
Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
Bet the pizza became ice cold by the time it reached Kilimanjaro’s summit.
Bilan about 8 years ago
We can assume the pizza didn’t make it in 30 minutes or less.
Bill The Nuke about 8 years ago
Snopes throws a lot of doubt on the teenager’s claim to finding a Mayan city. Check it out at http://www.snopes.com/canadian-teen-satellite-maps/
James Wolfenstein about 8 years ago
Who ordered the pizza? What kind of delivery is it if nobody is there waiting for it… I bet the pizza was stone cold… well… it was a pizza delivery after all…
James Wolfenstein about 8 years ago
Who ordered the pizza? What kind of delivery is it if nobody is there waiting for it… I bet the pizza was stone cold… well… it was a pizza delivery after all…
aimlesscruzr about 8 years ago
I totally understand the dangerous sports and adrenaline rush. Years ago, I would try a trebuchet ride in a heart beat!
Here’s a video of them in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqzunKZr3Eg
SD1 Patrol about 8 years ago
that pizza was for me
Durak Premium Member about 8 years ago
Alas, the Mayan city, Gadoury story is bunk. I believe it not, Ripley.
Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member about 8 years ago
That Mayan city story was proven to be incorrect, last I heard.
Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member about 8 years ago
For the article citing the Mayan city discovery as bunk go to this URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/20160511-Maya-Lost-City-Canadian-Teen-Discover-Constellations-Archaeology-Satellite-Stars-Gadoury/
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prince valiant Premium Member about 8 years ago
As to the trebuchat,,,shades of Cul de Sac and Dill’s brothers!
SeaFox10 about 8 years ago
Isn’t that David Kirke the guy who launched his girlfriend on that thing to test it, and it broke her pelvis?!?
SeaFox10 about 8 years ago
Wait a minute!! If there was no one there to “deliver” to, then all they did was carry food, like every other climber!
3pibgorn9 about 8 years ago
Was the pizza hot and how did the guy catapulted land?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 8 years ago
Trebuchets weren’t designed to throw people at all.
IQTech61 about 8 years ago
A Wired news article indicates that the lost city is neither lost nor a city.
Google Search “That Long-Lost Mayan city a Teen Found Isn’t Lost … or a City”
IQTech61 about 8 years ago
From Wired:UPDATE 5/11/16 5:40 PM ET: Geoffrey Braswell, a mesoamerican archaeologist at UC San Diego, and his graduate students have, by coincidence, actually been working in this area, and they immediately recognized the features in the satellite photos. The first image, Braswell says, is of the Laguna El Civalón, and the two rectangular features next to it are fields, probably either weed-filled fallow fields or marijuana fields based on the amount of vegetation.
The feature in the second image is a dried-up swamp, though an interesting archaeological site lies just to the south. “San Felipe was an important stop on the Spanish camino real linking Campeche (Mexico) to Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala),” writes Braswell in a statement. The Mexican archaeologist Teri Arias Ortiz may have found a church while excavating the area.
Max Starman Jones about 8 years ago
William would never have found the city if it had not been for Street View.
Eugeno about 8 years ago
Trebuchets have been used to ‘fling’ a variety of things, such as – a cow, a piano, and … a Buick. The power it generates is astonishing.
RustyGreenbrier about 8 years ago
That William Gadoury story has been thoroughly debunked months ago.
No. He did NOT find an ancient Mayan city using GoogleEarth, and besides that the ancient Mayan city he didn’t find was in Campeche, Mexico, not Belize. So no, do NOT “believe it”…
Keeping this hoax alive, just prolongs the kid’s embarrassment.