Vermont man catches grape in mouth from record height. We ask why.

Early Monday morning, near an airport in Vermont, a man standing under a hot air balloon broke a record and fulfilled his destiny.

Brent Fraser caught a grape in his mouth that was dropped from a record height — a victory that was all the sweeter because it followed so many unsuccessful attempts.

That same morning, he surpassed the record he'd just set by catching a grape dropped from a height of 31 metres, reports the Valley News newspaper in Lebanon, N.H.

Guinness currently lists no record for grape-catching. But Fraser has done the paperwork, and has every reason to believe his achievement will be officially acknowledged.

What ignited a passion so intense that he ordered special extra-large grapes from Georgia, and assembled a team of professional engineers to ascend in a balloon over a Vermont field before sunrise, and then get the engineers to drop the grapes, one by one, sending them tumbling toward his vulnerable, begoggled face, risking injuries he would later explain to people by saying, "What, this? Oh, that's from a grape. Yeah, a professional engineer dropped it out of the hot air balloon I was standing under." 

What makes a person do that?

Well, he says it's because he's good at it. So, that's cool.