A mother from North Lincolnshire has broken the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to complete a game popular in the 1980s – Screwball Scramble.
Screwball Scramble sees players guide the screwball through a crazy obstacle course in a race against the clock, including various buttons, dials and levers.
Anna O’Mara, 37, who has lived in Crowle in Lincolnshire since 2011, enjoyed playing the game with her brother during her youth in Doncaster. She then bought the game for her children Joseph, 7, and Elisabeth, 4 to share her childhood memories with them.
The O’Mara family – Chris, Joseph, Elisabeth and world record holder Anna.
Screwball Scramble is an obstacle course game against the clock.
The previous record was 43.61 and had not been broken since 2009. It was beaten by Anna on December 13, 2020 with a time of 33.85 seconds.
Anna’s husband Chris, 44, filmed the record attempt and was a timekeeper along with Joseph, while Elisabeth was responsible for starting proceedings by saying “1, 2, 3, go”.
After the record attempt, Anna submitted evidence and said the family were “over the moon” when they got an email to confirm she was a world record holder on March 11 this year.
Joseph and Elisabeth each received a Certificate of Participation.
The O’Mara family love to play Screwball Scramble.
She told The Lincolnite: “My son Joseph inspired me. He often reads The Guinness Book of Records and wanted to try to get a record.
“We were playing Screwball Scramble quite a bit during the lockdown and we looked up the world record. Joseph timed me completing the game and my attempt was quicker, so I applied for the world record.
“Joseph loves looking through the record books and is often amazed by it, so I thought it would be a good one to try and now he wants to find one he can try too.
“I was pleased to achieve it, but I do realise it is ia bit of a silly record and just a bit of fun. We have put the certificate in a frame in the downstairs toilet. I did it for my children and it was nice to do the record all together.”
Elisabeth and Joseph O’Mara participated in their mum’s Guinness World Record attempt.
The record needed to be done abiding by the below list of rules:
The rules for the ‘Fastest time to complete the Screwball Scramble game’ world record.
Anna added that her friends also want to try and break the record and when restrictions allow they plan to meet up for mini competitions. Some of Joseph’s friends have also ordered the game online since finding out about the record.”
Anna’s record is part two in The Lincolnite’s series looking at Guinness World Record holders in Greater Lincolnshire after Declan Evans drank a Capri Sun in 16.65 seconds.
Declan is now a Guinness World Record holder. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
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A 45-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods after 10 vehicles were taken from a premises north of Lincoln.
Staff at West View Farm in Ingham arrived at work on Wednesday, 29th June to find multiple units had been broken into and cars and vans stolen.
Suspects forced entry into the location and smashed open a key safe to obtain the keys for each vehicle, before making their escape with the vehicles.
Vehicles included an Audi car, and several Ford and Peugeot vans.
Investigating officers sprang into action and began searching for the vehicles, locating six of the 10 vehicles at a single location.
The final four were quickly located by police, meaning all the vehicles were found in a 24-hour period.
The success came off the back of a concerted effort from our local team who scoured the area to make sure the vehicles were found as quickly as possible.
The 45-year-old has been released under investigation as our enquiries continue.
If you know anything that you think might help us in our investigation, you contact us
By calling 101 quoting incident 52 of 29 June.
By emailing [email protected] quoting incident 52 of 29 June in the subject line.
If you wish to remain anonymous, you can report via the independent charity CrimeStoppers on 0800 555 111 or online.
Police blocked a junction of the M180 in Lincolnshire as protestors targeted motorways across the country in a demonstration over high fuel prices.
The protests are mainly targeting three-lane motorways with convoys of vehicles driving slowly in two lanes, and some police forces warned there could be ‘serious disruption’ throughout Monday, July 4.
In Lincolnshire, police put a rolling roadblock in place on junction one between the M180 and M18 forcing protestors to remain on the former.
Humberside Police said: “Police officers were in attendance at this morning’s protest to allow people to go about their lawful business and to protect the right of individuals to take part and exercise their right to peaceful protest.”
This comes as fuel prices have risen to record highs in recent weeks. Figures from data firm Experian show the average price of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts had hit 191.5p on Sunday, July 3, according to the BBC.
Scunthorpe truck driver Tariq Akram was among those taking part in the protest, and one of 50 vehicles making the 60-mile journey through Scunthorpe and Doncaster at 20mph. His company added £4,000 to its fuel bill in the pasts four months due to price rises.
Tariq told the BBC: “The turnout was absolutely fantastic. There were 35 vehicles from our yard alone who took part. At one point, I thought some cars wanted to overtake so I tried to let them by, then I realised they were joining in.”
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