COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lankan police say a man has died while trying to set a world record for the longest time spent buried alive. Police say the 24-year-old man (Janaka Basnayake) buried himself Saturday morning with the help of family and friends in a trench sealed with wood and soil. A local newspaper says the trench was 10 feet deep. Police say when the man was brought to the surface 7 1/2 hours later, he was unconscious and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. It's unclear whether there is an official world record for the longest time buried alive.
You just know that one of his friends was standing there when they brought this idiot back up and was like, "I told you so." And THAT...was the greatest "I told you so," of all time. It doesn't get much more truthier than that. I picture Janaka Basnayake and his homeboy playing PS3 or something in his parents basement, coming up with some cockamamie idea for getting into the record books, and homeboy saying "no way man, you'd be dead." Prophetic.
And it narrowly edges this little diddy of a "I Told You So" way back when CW was just a little sophmore in high school. It was like 10 minutes before classes start, everyone in the hallways at their lockers chatting it up and I hear this:
Older Girl I Didn't Know, One: "You guys, I just founded out that I'm pregnant."
Older (and much sassier) Girl I Didn't Know, Two: " I TOLD YOU SO...you're over here try'na tell me you safe, you safe, nothings gonna happen, I TOL' YOU SO!
For the record, those capitalized letters aren't for effect, she really did yell it out...I heard the whole thing because I was just a couple lockers down, but pretty much the whole hallway could guess what she was going off about once she started whooping it up.
And that was the reigning champ, until today, when I completely fabricated the words of Janaka Basnayake's buddy.
