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Nothing quite says "Halloween" like the ritualistic mutilation of gourds, but some Canadians just took things to a whole new level.On Sunday, a bunch of folks in Saskatoon with a crane, a giant pumpkin, and way too much time on their hands got together to loft a half-ton pumpkin 120 feet in the air and send it crashing to Earth—right on top of a Nissan Maxima.
According to CBC, some local insurance companies dreamed up the idea as a way to raise money for the Saskatoon Fire Fighters Pediatric Fund while also getting to watch a big-ass pumpkin brutalize a sedan. The giant pumpkin was completely decimated and, unsurprisingly, so was the car—which was donated by Saskatchewan Government Insurance."What else are you going to do on a Sunday in October?" Brennan Mills, one of the guys who helped put the pumpkin drop together, told CBC. "It's kind of a shame… It's actually a nice-looking car."The event wound up raising $9,000 for charity and dropped a total of three pumpkins, but only one of them got to bust up a vehicle. A second was hollowed out with a bunch of ping pong balls, which onlookers could buy for $5 a pop. This pumpkin was dropped on top of a massive target, and the ball the landed in the bull's eye won a prize. The third was just filled with candy, like a massive orange piñata.
About 2,000 people came out to watch the pumpkin drop, and, thankfully, one of them decided to take video of the whole thing. Watch the gold Nissan meet its untimely demise above and fill in your own Billy Corgan joke.