At 11:03 a.m. on Thursday, a group of ten tabby cats in front of the City Hall library set a new Guinness record by napping for 5 hours and 42 minutes on a single, dented park bench. The dent was a souvenir from a 1998 snowball fight.
The record was verified by Dr. Lila Nguyen, a local chronobiologist, who noted the cats’ synchronized purring matched the ambient 75‑dB sound level of the nearby traffic lights. I wonder if the cats were counting their purrs.
Mayor Carla Ruiz, who was in the second‑floor balcony reading a copy of The Cat's Meow: A Guide to Purrfect Politics, applauded the cats and announced a new city ordinance that will give all cats a 30‑minute daily rest period on public benches. Because cats are basically the real office managers.
Meanwhile, a local bakery, Biscuit & Claw, offered free croissants to every cat that completed the nap, and the owner, Samir Patel, claimed the scent of fresh bread increased the cats’ nap duration by 12%.
