Re: Is this true?
Reminds me of a magazine article that I read last year. Apparently people
are as crazy about chucking pumpkins as we are growing them. I believe a
huge event occurs every year in the Dover area, if I am not mistaken. Huge
catapults sling pumpkins hundreds of feet in a competition. I wonder if
they have slung a giant?
Anyone have any more insight or info?
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From: "Pumpkin E-Mail" <elkgrovepumpkins@egcsd.ca.gov>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 11:24 AM
Subject: RE: Is this true?
> NOT TRUE - If this had happened in the last nine years I know I would have
heard something about it. Believe me since we have started weighing off
these Giant Monsters I have received every kind of idea imaginable from
people in the surrounding area. Including dropping a pumpkin onto or into
all types of things from cranes or catapults, but I have never heard of
dropping one from a helicopter.
>
> I have heard of a radio station dropping ping pong balls from a helicopter
the only problem with anything from a helicopter is the downward thrust
needed to lift a helicopter adds about 100 mph of downward thrust to
whatever your dropping. I would not want to catch those ping pong balls.
>
> I will keep researching
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Montana Giant Pumpkins [m*@bigsky.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 8:39 PM
> To: pumpkins@hort.net
> Subject: Is this true?
>
>
> My husband has kept our 410lb-er in the back of our pick up since our
weigh
> off 9/20. It never fails to draw a crowd no matter where it's parked.
Today
> one on-looker shared an AG story from when he lived in California. Sounded
> like an Oakland area radio station bought an 800+lb AG for a promotional
stunt
> that involved lifting the AG with a helicopter up to 2000 feet and
released
> it. Sadly the plan didn't account for any lateral drift as the plummeting
> pumpkin met with cross winds. Even sadder was when it came to rest on the
> ground it was on top of a car.
> True? I dunno.
> It sounded like this may have happened several years ago.
> Can anyone confirm? It's a great story just the same.
>
>
> Kim Thomas
> Bitterroot Giant Pumpkin Weigh Off
> mtgiants@bigsky.net
> www.giantpumpkins.blogspot.com
>
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