Multiverse News

Competitors in this year's Punkin Chunkin Challenge in Clayton, New York, came to demonstrate the capabilities of their pumpkin projectile devices. Pumpkin Chucking or “punkin chunkin” is a sport based on launching pumpkins great distances using a variety of devices, such as air cannons, trebuchets, or catapults. Winners of the contest propel their pumpkins the furthest distance. However, their technical prowess in the art of hurling pumpkins led to significant destruction beyond the firing range. Jim Fellows of Ohio and his “Master Blaster” air cannon fired a fifteen-pound pumpkin 7,239 feet, setting a record and putting a hole in the roof of the Lawrence family's home, as well as destroying their living room with pumpkin shrapnel. Arjun Agarwal, of New Delhi, India, launched a 25-pound pumpkin with a large trebuchet named “Gandhi's Revenge” 7,243 feet to shatter that short-lived record and the inside of a Tom Michaels's Jaguar F-Type. A second shot from Master Blaster cratered the back yard of the Watson home but failed to set a record. Other damage recorded from the event includes a much larger pothole at the corner of 3rd Street and Smith Drive, a new “skylight” for little July Highsmith's bedroom, and the collapse of a pergola near the pool at the George house. Organizers of the event claim their event insurance will cover the damage caused. The city of Clayton has asked the that event be held somewhere else next year.