Launching yourself five metres up with nothing but a bendy stick feels like a dare that got out of hand.
Fun fact: Sergei Bubka broke the world record 35 times between 1984 and 1994.
Berlin alone puts away 70 million of these a year, which does explain the queue.
Fun fact: Germans eat roughly 800 million currywursts per year, with 70 million of those in Berlin alone.