An Indian stuntman died today while “attempting to cross the turbulent River Teesta on Sunday in the state of West Bengal on a 180-metre wire above the water,” Agence France Presse reports. Strung up by his hair, no less. Sailendra Nath Roy actually holds the world record for “distance travelled on a zip-line while hanging by his hair,” as per the AFP, but in his attempt to break his own record, his hair held strong—but his heart gave out.
As the AFP reports, “After attaching his shoulder-length hair to a pulley on the zip-line, Roy had completed about half of the distance when his pony-tail became entangled and he found himself unable to move.” Hereby giving ‘bad hair day’ a whole new meaning. “Hundreds of spectators initially cheered him on, but then began screaming in horror when they saw the married father of two sons making increasingly desperate attempts to move forward.” Cuz the last thing you want where your hair is caught in a pulley halfway across a turbulent river is for everybody else to start panicking.
“Preliminary investigations suggest that Roy suffered an heart attack caused by a nervous breakdown after remaining suspended for several minutes,” B.R. Satpathi, who heads West Bengal state’s medical services, told the AFP, whose photog on the scene snapped this harrowing pic:
But hey, at least he died doing what he loved(!?)
