WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - With speed-metal music on his headphones and a picture of his favorite food, carrot cake, beside him, a 34-year-old Canadian pinned down the world record for body piercing on Wednesday.
Brent Moffatt, a local outcast from Winnipeg's tattoo and piercing scene, pushed 702 needles into his body in a little less than eight hours. Most went into his legs and feet.
He had hoped to reach 1,000 piercings but stopped when the pain became too much to bear.
"I'm in a lot of pain. It feels like somebody's electrocuting my legs," said Moffatt, a former piercer at the Metamorphosis tattoo studio in this Canadian prairie city.
