Czech survives 10 days buried alive in coffin

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PRAGUE (AFP) - A 50-year-old Czech man has survived 10 days buried underground in a wooden coffin without food and water, setting what he claims is a new world record, the CTK news agency reported.

Zdenek Zahradka, a holy man or fakir, was connected with the outside world only by a ventilation pipe and said Friday that the most difficult thing to endure during the feat was severe thirst.

Zahradka said he spent most of the time sleeping or contemplating and sometimes spoke to friends through the pipe.

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Too frickin weird...

[jdj]

1. Why?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. Not a clue... perhaps an homage to his mother country's

time under Communist rule?

[DivinBreuvage]

3. If he had died....

would he have been a canceled Czech?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. Or if they dropped the coffin

would he be a bounced Czech?

[Elidor]

5. Hey, he lost 19 lbs! It's the new Coffin Diet

"Human life is so futile that we must be glad for the time given to us. We should respect our lives."

He neglects to explain how that world-view translates into ten days in the hole. Hey, pal, you wanna impress me? Stay down there against your will. Then I'll spin a prayer wheel for your flakey ass.

[jobycom]

6. Oh, ye modern materialist, soulless wussies

Don't you kow that deprivation is the path to spiritual awakening in most religions? It's why Jesus fasted in the desert, why monks sit on pillars, why some Native American youths had to undergo a separation test to pass to manhood. If nothing else, it helps one to understand that there is life beyond McDonalds and Starbucks. Deny the flesh and live in the spirit.

For a little while, anyway. Too much spirit is boring.

[Piperay]

7. Uh, uh, uh but

what about...mmmmm...bathroom type 'stuff'. :shrug:

[truthisfreedom]

8. man, that makes me feel creepy. i have a distinct fear of being buried

alive.

[Mace]

9. he must have

drank the rain water.

how can someone live past 3 days without water?