KA-BOOM, EH?:

560-kg pumpkin explodes, disqualified from Largest Canadian Pumpkin title (Canadian Press, October 07, 2002)

As Allan Eaton awaited his coronation as the owner of Canada's largest pumpkin Sunday, he saw the fruit of his labour literally explode in front of him. The giant pumpkin weighing is held every year at By Market, and this year Eaton had a huge one.

However, when the organizers placed Eaton's pumpkin on the scale it blew up at its base, forcing a disqualification.

The judges weighed the giant pumpkin anyway and it came in at 560.5 kilograms, easily enough to break the Canadian record of 547 kilograms set by Ben Hebb of Bridgewater, N.S., on Saturday.

Oddly enough, the same thing happened to the winner of the Miss Palestine Pageant. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 13, 2002 4:04 PM