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  • Man sets sights on eye-popping record

    09/17/2006 7:14:44 AM PDT · by martin_fierro · 26 replies · 2,417+ views
    AP/Yahoo ^ | Sun Sep 17, 7:08 AM ET
    Man sets sights on eye-popping record Sun Sep 17, 7:08 AM ET RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Claudio Paulo Pinto is looking to break an eye-popping record. Literally. Pinto can pop his eyeballs out of their sockets at least 7 millimeters (0.3 inches), a national record for eye-popping according to RankBrasil, an organization modeled after the Guinness Book of World Records that lists Brazilian records. A former driver, Pinto got a job scaring visitors in a commercial haunted house in Belo Horizonte, 210 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. But he recently was laid off, and now he seeks international...