111.4-decibel shout wins contest in Japan

Published: Oct. 16, 2008 at 12:49 AM

YUFU , Japan, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A Japanese man out-shouted 100 other people in the city of Yufu with a contest-winning 111.4-decibel yell.

Eizo Ito, 49, won his second consecutive victory at the shouting festival, which invited participants to work out their stresses and frustrations by taking phrases they would not normally say and shouting them at the top of their lungs, Kyodo News reported Wednesday.

One participant declared: "I want to eat safe rice!"

"My darling, I'm going to cut your allowance because stock prices fell," another participant shouted.

The winning yell wasn't reported by the Japanese news agency.

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