{"id":4254,"date":"2026-03-23T12:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/goldfish-drives-its-way-into-the-guinness-book-of-records\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:41:29","slug":"goldfish-drives-its-way-into-the-guinness-book-of-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/goldfish-drives-its-way-into-the-guinness-book-of-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldfish drives its way into the Guinness Book of Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-03-23 12:41:26<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A goldfish&#8217;s &#8220;driving&#8221; has earned it a place in the Guinness Book of Records.<BR><br \/>\nComputer engineer Thomas de Wolf created a custom-built vehicle which detected his pet Blub&#8217;s movement inside a water tank to direct the wheels, and the creature travelled 40ft and 3.46 inches in 60 seconds, securing it the record for homas de Wolf and Blub, using a car that detected the fish\u2019s movement inside a water tank to direct the wheels, earned the record for the greatest distance covered in a motion-sensing vehicle by a goldfish in one minute.<BR><br \/>\nThomas &#8211; who brought Blub and his invention to Italian TV show Lo Show dei Record to secure the record in front of host Gerry Scotti and a GWR adjudicator &#8211; said in a statement: \u201cNormally, my job is quite monotonous, so I wanted to create something that would entertain people, turning my \u2018serious\u2019 job into something fun.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The objective is to show people what is possible to achieve with this kind of technology.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nThomas hopes his invention can make a difference to the world.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: \u201cI would love to maybe one day be able to help people with mobility issues.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-03-23 12:41:26 A goldfish&#8217;s &#8220;driving&#8221; has earned it a place in the Guinness Book of Records. Computer engineer Thomas de Wolf created a custom-built vehicle which detected his pet Blub&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4256,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions\/4256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}