Almost 5,000 people from various civic groups gathered in the Guadalajara city center last weekend to create a new Guinness record for the loudest insult ever heard.
Directed toward the Jalisco governor, the collective shout of “Emilio Gonzalez, chingas a tu madre” reached 122 decibels.
The event played on the infamous moment in May 2008 when the inebriated governor used the aforementioned slur to slam critics opposed to his plan to donate 90 million pesos to a new Catholic church, ostensibly to support religious tourism in Guadalajara.
“I haven’t been governor long, but probably they’ve all found out by now that I couldn’t care less about what some few people are saying,” the governor said at a fundraiser for the Banco Diocesano de Alimentos, an area food bank, before making the now much-quoted insult.
One organizer said the collective insult was a “good way to say goodbye to the governor.” Gonzalez steps down as Jalisco governor on December 6.
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