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Elizabeth Bragg, 23, of Huntington, Indiana, was sentenced in February to three years in prison after pleading guilty to neglect of a dependent. According to prosecutors, Bragg was taking five children on a car trip when she became angry with one of them, her four-year-old stepdaughter, for falling asleep despite being told not to. She reportedly ordered one of the other kids to unbuckle the offending girl’s seat belt; after telling everyone else to hang on, Bragg sped up, then slammed on the brakes, causing the girl to hit her head.
In a grueling 14-hour session in March, Matt Robison, a 21-year-old tattoo-studio apprentice from Ottawa, Illinois, received 990 body piercings, giving him a total of 1,016 and the new world record. He said he’d planned to go for 1,200 but the pain was too intense (even the friend who was doing the piercing became physically ill at one point); afterward he had all but his original 26 piercings removed, a process he said was just as painful. Apparently optimistic even though the previous record of 1,015 had stood for only a few weeks before he broke it, Robison told the Peoria Journal Star, “At our 10-year class reunion, we can say we’ve got a world record in our name.”
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