Department of Weirdass Wetass Adventures–Sherlock Holmes Across The Outback?: You have to give British adventurer Lloyd Scott credit–a lot of credit–for imagination and a raging enthusiasm for life. In the 1980s, Scott, 43, survived leukemia and a bone marrow transplant. In the aftermath he decided to raise money for leukemia research by pulling off, umm, unusual stunts. So in 2002 he claimed the record for the slowest London Marathon ever, with a time of more than 5 days. Why was he so slow? Well, he raced the entire course wearing a 200 pound deep sea diver’s suit. In 2003 he came up with another oddball stunt. He walked the entire length of Loch Ness…underwater (it took him 12 days to cover the 25 miles). Guess that divers suit came in handy. And on Wednesday, Scott, 43, set off on his latest unusual adventure: he’s peddling an antique bicycle across Australia, 2600 miles from Perth to Sydney…dressed like Sherlock Holmes. In other words, he’s wearing a tweed suit, a deerstalker cap, and a large fake moustache. Scott’s route crosses the Nullarbor Plain, where temperatures will regularly top 100 degrees, and he admits that he might loosen–or even, if no one’s looking, take OFF his jacket–when the mercury soars. “Everyone I’ve sort of met over here has warned me of what to look out for — road trains, cattle grids, kangaroos, emus, bulls, camels — and I’ve got a list now that’s nearly as long my arm,” Scott said. TWC can think of a much more obvious danger: the mother of all sore, aching, butts. But maybe he can use some of the $2.5 million he’s hoping to raise on a little aloe cream…



“I think I can roll right over koalas, but I better not hit any kangaroos…”

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