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Giant pumpkin set in front of an explosion background
The Stillwater Harvest Fest in Minnesota promised a ‘Smashing Good Time’ to all attendees, and they delivered. Among the highlights was a thousand pound pumpkin raised by a crane and dropped onto another massive pumpkin.
The pumpkin-on-pumpkin explosion that ensued triggered a frenzy amongst onlookers. Folks immediately dashed under the ropes to grab a piece of the pumpkin for themselves as a memento from the occasion.
Who Wants To See A Thousand Pound Pumpkin Dropped On Another Giant Pumpkin?
Pumpkin explosions at Fall harvest festivals throughout the country aren’t extremely uncommon. There are the infamous ‘Punkin Chunkin’ festivals which fire giant pumpkins out of cannons, or launch them with trebuchets. But this is an event for purists. They raise the XXL gourd and drop it on top of another one and for a brief second the two pumpkins become one on a molecular level as they are disintegrated and shards are sent flying in every direction.
Check it out:
A big crowd gathered in Minnesota to witness a giant-pumpkin smashing event at the Stillwater Harvest Fest, with many in attendance running to grab a piece of gourd for themselves. https://t.co/5xyYLwC5ZD pic.twitter.com/pfVk5CqKhp
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I have said it before and I will say it again… I’m a simple man when it comes to entertainment. Give me a novel explosion like this, or a resort/casino being imploded, and I am a happy individual. Exploding whales? That was the first viral video in American history so I am not alone in this fascination.
In other news, a Rhode Island man just grew the world’s first pumpkin weighing over 3,000 pounds. Now the world NEEDS to see that thing dropped from a skyscraper.