Mystery pumpkin carver haunts neighborhood
MANASSAS, Va. (UPI) - Residents of a neighborhood in Manassas, Va., said someone stole pumpkins but returned them carved in traditional Halloween fashion.
Chris Blasius said the mysterious pumpkin carver stole a pumpkin from her front porch and returned it with a face carved out of it, the Masnassas (Va.) Journal Messenger reported.
"I had a pumpkin - a little larger than a basketball - on my front porch early this week. Someone came during the night, carved it and brought it back. It's amazing," Blasius said. "The pumpkin had two triangle eyes, a triangle nose and a mouth with two teeth missing."
Lisa Harlow said one of her pumpkins was also taken and returned and nicely carved the same night.
"It's Halloween and I guess people do strange and weird things," Harlow told the Journal Messenger.
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Scoreboard damaged by errant pumpkin toss
FULLERTON, Ca. (UPI) - A scoreboard at California State University - Fullerton was damaged as a result of a pumpkin tossing mishap, a Discovery Science Center official said.
Center Director of Education Keith Bruch said a group of college engineering students created a makeshift cannon to shoot pumpkins, but the cannon was so powerful it shot a pumpkin more than 120 yards into the Titan Stadium scoreboard Saturday.
"The scoreboard is fine...it works...it was a small hole," Brush told the Orange County Resister. "Nobody seemed to be in a huge panic."
The engineering students had planned for the pumpkin to strike one of two plywood targets set up about 50 yards away, Brush said.
"They had no idea how far it was going to go,"he said. "you know, with engineering projects, they usually don't work out the first time."
The register said almost 3,000 people attended the second annual "pumpkin Launch" held by the Center Saturday.
