Posted on 10/06/2025 10:14:45 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
WORLAND — More than 4 tons' worth of giant pumpkins were weighed at the 2025 Wyoming State Championship Weigh-Off and Pumpkin Drop on Saturday. Then, a lot of that tonnage was hoisted 200 feet into the air and dropped to explode in spectacular fashion.
The climax of the event was watching a 1,700-pound pumpkin smash the crap out of a porta-potty.
The cold, windy weather did nothing to dampen the spirits of people whose “pumpkin fever” had them fiendishly devoted to their pumpkins, zucchinis, and watermelons for months.
They came to see the weight of their work, then watch it explode into smithereens.
Jay Richard, aka Wyoming’s Pumpkin King, ensured nobody left the Washakie County Fairgrounds disappointed.
The main event of the day was watching the largest pumpkin of the weigh-off become the largest pumpkin ever dropped in Wyoming, destroying a porta-potty with incredible precision as it crashed into the ground.
“You can’t get more redneck than pumpkins, an outhouse, and a 200-foot crane,” Richard said. “I don’t know why, but destroying an outhouse is my crown jewel of pumpkin drops.”
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“... I ain’t eating none a THAT pie!”
Not even if it’s Moose Turd Pie?
https://open.spotify.com/track/4xPkqOQXYFVvxRhXbGbrX0
Reminds me when a rotten whale was detonated in a (futile) way to destroy it
Just think of how many pies that could have made.
What a waste of a good pumpkin
That weight is amateur. 😃 A pumpkin at the local Pumpkin Palooza last Saturday, weighed over 2000 lbs.
Beaten down while beating o??
Double- Splat!
Sounds like Wyoming is a booming place
I live too far away from there anyway, but I sure would have liked to see it in person.
Pumpkin Turd Pie!
“People in Wyoming obviously have too much time on their hands.
I mean - smashing an outhouse with a giant pumpkin?
Come on….”
It is rumored. that many WY GOP’ers were trying to coax Liz Cheney into the outhouse..
You don’t mess with the Zucchini People in these parts. Leave your car unlocked and you return to a box of zukes on the back seat with a note reading “You can make bread out of these, you know!” It’s terrorism, that’s what.
Headline:
Portable Toilet Explodes: Cops Have Nothing to Go ON
Wiped out !
Drop was coordinated by Les Nessman
I was born in Worland.
Whatever happened to Punkin Chunkin?
VIRGINIA CITY,NEVADA, HAD THEIR ANNUAL “OUTHOUSE RACES” SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Was there a lawyer in the outhouse?
The pumpkin patch we go to does the trebuchet thing with regular pumpkins. The last time we went they had changed things up due to safety considerations. They only did it twice each day rather than once every half-hour. And they used to let the kids run down the field as soon as it launched and they’d pick up the pieces and then run over to the pig area and toss the pieces over the fence to them.
Now they have the landing zone all roped off and they can only watch from a distance.
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