A smurf too short

A total of 395 Croatians decked out in a white hat and blue paint all over were looking to break a Guinness World Record. No, it had nothing to do with the Blue Man Group but rather the popular cartoon The Smurfs and the Guinness World Record of most surfs in one place.

Once contact was made with Guinness officials to register for the world record, the group were given the news that they had in fact missed the number by 56 as the current record according to Guinness World Records is 451 set by an English group in Warwick.

A spokesman for the organizers said: "We read on the internet that the record was 290 people held by a group of Americans, and decided to beat it, and we had TV, radio and print media report our success."

It appears that they missed their opportunity and blue it.

Ananova