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Competitive eater Joey Chestnut won his 5th consecutive Nathan's International Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4th at Coney Island in Brooklyn. And while the 62 hot dogs he consumed were not a record, hours after the event ended he set a world record for clogging his toilet 27 times in just 10 minutes.

"The eating competitions are exciting and they're what the sport of competitive eating is known for. It's what the public sees," said a sweaty Chestnut, minutes after clogging his toilet for the last time. "But only those on the inside know that the real excitement comes after the competitions in the competitive eaters' bathrooms."

With his girlfriend cheering him on and his hotel's maintenance man serving as a witness, Chestnut began clogging his toilet just minutes after arriving back at his midtown Manhattan hotel following the competition.

"It's all about timing and strategy," said Chestnut. "Start too soon and all of that hot dog meat hasn't hit your colon yet. Start too late and … well, you've got quite a mess on your hands."

Chestnut says he knew he would have a shot at the toilet clogging record right at the start.

"The first log came out thick, wide and dense and dropped right over the hole in the toilet," he said. "I knew it was a clogger. So I flushed and, sure enough, brown poop water came right up to the rim of the toilet. A perfect clogging."