Two-ton pumpkin creates a massive splash at annual event in Oregon

Onlookers ducked for cover as a gargantuan pumpkin plummeted from a crane into a tiny inflatable pool on Oct. 29.

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00:00 Hundreds of people ducked for cover over the weekend in Oregon as part of the annual Giant Pumpkin Drop.

00:07 Ever heard of that?

00:09 I'm thinking this is a New Year's event.

00:11 Oh, look at it! It's a two-ton pumpkin.

00:14 My favorite part is how the sound is also in slow motion.

00:21 It sounds like, I don't know, whales or something.

00:23 I think people, yeah, screaming.

00:25 So basically they were probably ducking for cover from the splash there.

00:29 They dropped this two-ton pumpkin into an inflatable pool in Seaside yesterday.

00:37 That's really cool. It's a good visual.

00:40 So pumpkins would typically float, but I'm assuming since it was only in an inflatable pool, it wasn't that deep.

00:45 It probably broke from the concrete below it and smashed pumpkin went everywhere too, right?

00:51 Oh yeah, like the old Howie Mandel used to sit in the front row, get food thrown at you.

00:57 Yeah, I mean, gosh, this is something neither one of us knew, but now we are smarter for knowing it.

01:02 There you go. And it could also be done at New Year's. You never know.

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