Gargantuan gourd weighs in at more than 700 pounds
October 9, 1997
Web posted at: 10:44 p.m. EDT (0244 GMT)
SMITHFIELD, Rhode Island (CNN) -- It would make quite an
impressive Halloween jack-o'-lantern -- but you might have a
hard time getting it onto the porch.
A Rhode Island-grown pumpkin tips the scale at 733 pounds and
is more than 7 feet high.
Farmer John Casttellucci thinks this gigantic gourd is the
biggest pumpkin around, so he's entering it in the state's
giant pumpkin championship this weekend.
It's estimated that a pumpkin this size could make 5,000
pies.
And Linus would say it's enough to restore Charlie Brown's
faith in the Great Pumpkin.