QUICK TAKES - May 16, 2009
Associated Press
In what the organizer jokingly calls a case of his “Michael Jackson obsession gone wrong,” a group of College of William & Mary students has won the world record for most people to dance to the singer’s “Thriller” simultaneously in one place.
The 242-person routine was organized by longtime Jackson fan Kevin Dua, who was notified Friday by Guinness World Records of the accomplishment.
The previous record was 147 people in an event held last summer at a British secondary school.
Dua, 21, spent the better part of the school year orchestrating the event, which was held April 19 at the college in Williamsburg, in eastern Virginia.