Russian “coolant glutton” dies trying to break record

After drinking 300 grams of anti-freezing liquid and chasing it down with coca-cola, Dmitry Butakov from the central Russian town of Lipetsk had only time to give a few interviews to dozens of Russian and foreign journalists specially invited to witness the unique occasion, before feeling sick. An ambulance took him to a hospital where the 44-year-old “coolant glutton” died of severe blood poisoning" several days later.

Butakov claimed to possess supernatural abilities, boasting to be able to start his “lunch” with a glass of acetone, take a ball of mercury as a main course and chase it down with a bottle of cooling fluid – all with a close-up TV camera aimed at him.

A successful entrepreneur in the past, Dmitry discovered his outstanding abilities while serving behind bars.

Even medical experts had to admit that his body possessed unusual abilities.  One day, after swallowing some dissolvent and chasing it down with toadstools in front of journalists, he offered to have his blood tested. A lethal doze of poison was indeed found in his bloodstream but did not seem to have penetrated his system and had left his cells unaffected, toxicologists confirmed.  

Soon the local provincial town of Lipetsk became too small an arena for Butakov’s feats and he decided to seek world fame.

It turned out, however, that no human body, even as phenomenal as his, could digest such a huge amount of toxic material.

Eventually, after a number of dangerous experiments, he died. Despite his apparent immunity, the Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda reports.