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World's Largest Hair Ball

By Alex in World Records on Nov 5, 2007 at 11:50 pm


Henry Coffer has been cutting hair at his barber shop for fifty years. That in itself is not weird, but Henry has saved all the hair he has cut, and is now vying to get into the Guinnes Book of World Record for world’s largest ball of hair!

Years ago a customer asked barber Henry Coffer to save the hair he swept up from his shop floor. The man, a farmer, spread it around his watermelon patch to keep coyotes out.

Henry kept saving the hair cuttings even after the farmer stopped raising melons. The hair collection grew daily, weekly, yearly until today. Ask Henry Coffer how much hair he’s cut over the years and he points to a huge hairball that fills most of the bed of his pickup truck.

The hair ball is now 167 pounds, and growing every day as Henry keeps on adding hair to it: Link (with video)


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  1. meg
    Nov 6th, 2007 at 3:07 am

    it might be a record, but I still wouldn't touch it...

  2. Dim67
    Nov 6th, 2007 at 5:43 am

    That is absolutely disgusting!

  3. matt
    Nov 6th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    I heard that pubic lice are in danger of being extinct due to people trimming down below. Maybe this guy has a solution.

    Also, imagine what this would smell like if lit on fire.

  4. Rosi
    Nov 7th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

    Is it just me or does anyone else find this really creepy?
    He's been collecting people's hair for fifty years... weird. He's made it into a giant hairball... very weird. I wonder if he told all the people that he was keeping their hair... Reminds me of the crazy old barber in the Simpsons who pays people in hair... ^_^

  5. Chris
    Nov 7th, 2007 at 9:48 pm

    gross.

    is that a fetishism?

  6. Lasse
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 4:35 pm

    I am never going to eat melons again.

  7. brandon
    Nov 9th, 2007 at 12:56 am

    that is utterly disgusting. america is stupid.

  8. Meemoe
    Jul 14th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    wow, it sure is big and cool

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