The Great Pumpkin has arrived, and it has an agenda: Certain destruction. In yet another tale of Halloween decorations gone awry, a 350-pound, 25-foot-tall inflatable jack-o-lantern broke loose from a sports complex display on Thursday and terrorized the city of Peoria, Airzona. The pumpkin rolled through multiple lanes of traffic before getting stuck beneath a streetlight, Uproxx reports.
But no pole is strong enough to hold the Great Pumpkin in place—it escaped and rolled and bounced for another quarter-mile before finally coming to rest in a neighborhood park. Patrick Sparkes, who works for Big AZ Promotions (the company in charge of the pumpkin), said the giant inflatable was difficult to track down. "I was so shocked to see that it was like bouncing like a basketball all the way down the road," he said. "We showed up and it wasn’t there and we spent the last 40 minutes driving around looking for it."
Luckily no one was injured during the pumpkin's reign of terror, but 40 minutes to track down a 350-pound pumpkin is a record worthy of Charlie Brown.
