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Utah Man Drops 1,917-pound Pumpkin Onto His Geo Metro
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By Ben Hooper
Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A Utah man said a final farewell to the Geo Metro he drove for 35 years by dropping a 1,917-pound pumpkin on it from a height of nearly 14 stories.
Millville resident Alan Gebert said his 1991 Geo Metro finally stopped
running this year, so he decided to
send the vehicle off in style by destroying it with a giant pumpkin.
Gebert's 1,917- pound pumpkin, which took first place at the Utah Giant Pumpkin Festival weigh-off, was hoisted about 14 stories into the air by a crane at Hee Haw Farms in Pleasant Grove.
The pumpkin was dropped onto the
35-year-old com- pact car, caving in the roof in spec- tacular fashion.
"It's just some- thing that we've talked, me and my wife have talked about for a long time, that this would be the best way for it to go, and it hap- pened, so it's been kind of fun," Gebert told KSTU-TV.
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