Watch as a 1200lb pumpkin is dropped from a crane

[vernonbird]

@MikeR

I was kind of expecting a huge gourdy explosion with chunks of rind tearing through the crowd, flipping pickup trucks and laying waste to half of the county.

Ah, for that kind of carnage, giant gourds won’t cut it.
This is what you want:

[ficuswhisperer]

Seems like a waste of a perfectly good fruit.