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Oregon man paddles pumpkin 45.67 miles to break world record
upi ^
| 10/31/2024
| Ben Hooper
Posted on 11/04/2024 8:49:04 AM PST by BenLurkin
Gary Kristensen, a Happy Valley man who has been growing giant pumpkins since 2011, started converting his gargantuan gourds into boats into 2013 to compete in the West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta, which he has won for the past four consecutive years.
ristensen hollowed out a pumpkin he dubbed Punky Loafster this year to take on his longtime goal of breaking the Guinness World Record for the longest paddling journey by pumpkin boat.
His 45.67-mile journey down the Columbia River, which took him more than 26 hours, aimed to break the previous record of about 39 miles.
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Kristensen used a camera mounted to a broomstick to record his journey and printed the words "it's real" on the side of the pumpkin to answer the most obvious question that might have been asked by curious onlookers.
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posted on
11/04/2024 8:49:04 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
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posted on
11/04/2024 8:49:53 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
11/04/2024 8:53:13 AM PST
by
alstewartfan
(Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
To: BenLurkin
people can sometimes be awesome.
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posted on
11/04/2024 8:54:10 AM PST
by
BigFreakinToad
(just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
To: BenLurkin
“West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta,”
I wad surprised to learn that there are many pumpkin regattas.
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posted on
11/04/2024 8:56:24 AM PST
by
TexasGator
(FIXED! I. I I l I l l "l I l / .I lI . l I l l l I I l /l l . l l l l l . I l I .)
To: BenLurkin
Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
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posted on
11/04/2024 8:57:15 AM PST
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: BenLurkin
Big pumpkin!
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posted on
11/04/2024 8:59:34 AM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
To: BenLurkin
I thought it said Orange Man.
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posted on
11/04/2024 9:03:06 AM PST
by
HIDEK6
(God bless Donald Trump)
To: BenLurkin
Next year, if he has the stones, he should make it a submarine, with GPS to track it for the record. Now, that would be something!
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posted on
11/04/2024 9:24:48 AM PST
by
Fireone
("and dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." G. Washington 1783)
To: alstewartfan
He had a dream
He made it happen
To: BenLurkin
The guy is out of his Gourd.
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posted on
11/04/2024 9:54:45 AM PST
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
To: blackdog
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posted on
11/04/2024 10:19:21 AM PST
by
ABN 505
(Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
To: BenLurkin
26 hours in a hollowed-out pumpkin with no Internet. Charles Lindbergh did something like this and got world famous. This guy, not so much.
To: conservative_cyclist; ten18; Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; ...
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
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posted on
11/07/2024 6:22:53 AM PST
by
Twotone
( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
To: BenLurkin
I bet he has killer Jack-O’-Lanterns at Halloween.
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posted on
11/07/2024 6:57:46 AM PST
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
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