What do you do with a car that's 35 years old, has stopped running, and is no good for a trade in? What do you do with a pumpkin that weights nearly a ton and is too tough to cut? Both belonged to one man- Alan Gebert of Millville, Utah, so the answer was to smash them into each other.
The 1991 Geo Metro named Frosty had been a loyal transport for 35 years, and a tribute video about it went viral earlier this year when Gebert retired from his day job. Gebert's plan was to eventually drop a giant pumpkin on it to give the car a fitting sendoff when it quit working, which it did this year. Gebert grows giant pumpkins for fun, and this year's behemoth weighed 1,917 pounds and won first prize at the Utah Giant Pumpkin Festival weigh-off.
The pumpkin drop was staged at Hee Haw Farms in Pleasant Grove, Utah, on October 26th. A crane lifted the pumpkin 14 stories high and dropped it, to the utter satisfaction of the crowd below. Both the pumpkin and the car were destroyed. A similar stunt on the same day at the nearby North Logan Pumpkin Toss produced much less mayhem as a 750-pound pumpkin was dropped onto a minivan, which you can see at the same link.
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