A pumpkin as heavy as a car takes the world record — again

Ron Wallace has done it three times now. At the Southern New England Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Warren, Rhode Island, on October 10, his pumpkin tipped the scales at 3,156 pounds — about as much as a midsize car, and 300 pounds beyond the record a British grower, Ian Paton, had set just a week earlier. Guinness World Records calls two record-breaking pumpkins in a single week almost unheard of. Wallace first broke the record in 2006 with the first pumpkin over 1,500 pounds, then again in 2012 with the first over 2,000.