Human Mattress Dominoes

king koil Mattress Dominoes Springs were in the air yesterday when the world record for human mattress dominoes was broken.

The attempt was made by Palantine Beds, in Newcastle, and saw 400 mattresses toppled - beating the current world record set by a team in America.

After four months of planning, the team behind the event were last night celebrating in style.

The firm's sales and marketing manager Andrew Waters, is now awaiting official confirmation from the Guinness Book if World Records that his team are now the current world record holders in human mattress dominoes.

Mr Waters said: 'We didn't have the turnout we were hoping for so we had to improvise.

Volunteers in Newcastle breaking the World Record for human mattress dominoes when they toppled 400 mattresses in succession

The event took place at the spacious Newcaslte Furniture Service warehouse in Newburn Riverside, where excited participants whooped as they passed the current record

'The first two rows that toppled then had to pick their mattresses up and run around and join the end. But it actually made the whole thing more exciting to be honest.

'It was a great morning. I had a lump in my throat at the end of it.'

Until two weeks ago, the world record as held by a group in China, who toppled 256 mattresses in May this year.

Then a team in New York toppled 380 mattresses, making the record harder to beat.

But yesterday's attempt saw 400 mattresses fall, after colleagues from Palantine Beds, owned by Newcastle City Council, Your Homes in Newcastle (YHN), and other volunteers, took three minutes and 41 seconds to set a new record.

The event took place at the spacious Newcaslte Furniture Service warehouse in Newburn Riverside, Newcastle, where excited participants whooped as they passed the current record.

The Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Coun Brenda Hindmarsh, started the event, which involved hundreds of Geordies and their mattresses.

Mr Waters added: 'We followed their rules to the letter so there is no reason why we shouldn't have the record. It's what we set out to do.

'It was a lovely atmosphere and it just wouldn't have been possible without all of the volunteers who gave up their time on Saturday morning to take part.

'When we originally set out to do this it was going t be 301 mattresses, but a few weeks ago America did 380.

'So we upped ours. We had to extra staff working overtime to makae extra mattresses and they have all been absolutely fantastic.

'It was just a daft idea that snowballed, but it couldn't have been done without everybody who has taken part.'