Joel Waul, 28, climbs on top of his rubber band ball on the driveway of his home in Lauderhill, Fla., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. Waul who works nights restocking a Gap clothing store, has spent the last six years carefully wrapping and linking and stretching rubber bands of various sizes into the ball shape. The Guinness Book of World Records declared it the world's largest rubber band ball in 2008. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
Only in FLA!
My Ohio friends will roar...we always come out #1...Hanging Chads, etc.
In Kansas we have the world’s biggest ball of twine. I’ve added to it.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/8543
and then something went horribly, horribly wrong. As the crane was lifting the ball, one of the rubber bands caught on the edge of the carport and no one noticed in time. The crane was lifting the ball, the band stretched and stretched until boiiiiiiing, the rubber band ball launched as fast as you could say ARES-1. Up, up and away like a big silver UFO went the ball, jerking itself off the crane's hook that was positioned for lifting, not for restraining. ...
Okay, now the fun part. Drop it from a height of about 100 feet and see how high it bounces. Sure, it might break apart in spots, but still quite a bounce I’m sure. Any freeper physics freaks care to calculate this one?
I pull bigger things out of my belly button in the morning.
where does one get rubber bands that big?
Rejected headline:
Florida Man has No Life
Also;
Florida Man Wastes 6 years
But OTOH he may go into the recordbooks, even though it’s kind of lame and requires nothing special to do.