Our village of Kemble (pop. 50??) is the site of the Canadian Punkin Chuckin Championships. Who knew there are categories for Air Gun, Catapult, and Trebuchet? Who knew there is a theme song? Who knew the world record is over 4,000 feet?! Plus potato guns, poutine, and ponies. It was chilly but for once it didn't rain, so the crowd was in the thousands.
The rules say that the pumpkin has to hit the ground intact, so a lot of the teams had to adjust the pressure of their launch when the pumpkin came out of the barrel as pie filling! Impossible to get a photo of the gourds defying gravity, they are really fast. I heard that after seeing this event a band decided to call themselves Smashing Pumpkins!
Watch for the results in the news ---- was there a new Canadian record? And where is the Chuckin Championships in your part of the world?
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