Snails on da Face

SALT LAKE CITY — Never mind the ick factor. A Utah boy is trying to get into the record books by covering his face with live snails.

Eleven-year-old Fin Keheler, from Sandy, allowed 43 of the slimy mollusks to be put on his face Saturday. He wants the Guinness World Records to verify his effort.

The Guinness web site says the record set in 2007 for snails on the face for 10 seconds is eight. The boy says he has since learned the record was 36.

Fin made three attempts on Saturday. While he was sitting back in a reclining chair, snails gathered from neighbors' gardens were carefully placed on his face. Those that remained for at least 10 seconds were counted.

Yeah, WTF ever ... World Record my ass ... This is more like a 'Ceti Eel' type situation, which for all you non-nerds out there, was this thing that happened in a sci fi movie franchise (big one, everybody knows it), where this bad guy put this snail into this guy's ear, and it basically ate his brain until he died. This kid obviously has snails wrapped around his cerebral cortex controlling his actions. Guinnes Book of Worldwhothef*ckcares ... no one should allow themselves to be controlled by snails.

Fear the Animal Uprising 2012 ... big, small, slimy, whatever ... its coming ...