27 years ago, back in 1997, someone impaled a 60 pound pumpkin on top of a spire at Cornell University in the middle of the night. It was over 170 feet (51 meters) off the ground. To this day, no one could understand how it was done. Happy Halloween🎃
by cingarodacanrse
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# Now that’s impressive
Subtle hint as to how in the background
Pretty simple… someone climbed up there with it on their back or hoisted it up once they got up there.
Trained eagles.
The Headless Horseman is an alumni of Cornell.
27 years ago in 1997 🤮🤮 that just doesn’t seem right.
Probably some engineering students. It’s a simple physics problem, I’m guessing they used a catapult of some sort, and sacrificed a few pumpkins to get it right.
Nobody really *knows* (except for the pranksters themselves),
but there is a prevailing theory based on Occam’s razor.
climbing gear?
I swear this shit gets posted monthly
There’s an access hatch on that roof. No one spidernanned up the building. Simply accessed the hatch and stuck a pumpkin on the point
60?!
Some rich alumni or nepo baby with a helicopter
Plymouth State would like a word…
At the uni I went to, the climbing club have a challenge to touch the statue on top of the law college.
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[“In 1999, Manjoo got an anonymous tip explaining how the prank was done — it involved some daredevil clambering up the tower’s steep spire, and some strategically placed duct tape. But that tipster never named names.”](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/31/561217424/after-20-years-can-cornell-finally-bust-open-its-great-pumpkin-mystery) NPR article about the stunt.
How did they get the pumpkin down? I bet that could help them to understand how it was put up there to begin with.
Meanwhile, in the physics department, “Question 6: A spike sits 51 meters off the ground. Give a perfectly spherical pumpkin weighing exactly 5kg and a cannon located 100 meters from the spike, what force is needed ….”
The clue is right there in the pic
At a football ground in Munich, a goose impaled itself on lighting mast. No one knew how it did it, yet the goose was hanging up there for a while. Happy… Errm whatever
Someone tied it to their ball sack and climbed the tower with suction plungers. Duh.
Parkour
27 years ago… you mean 1981?
I’m glad there’s a BIG RED ARROW to show us all where the top of the spire is.