More Strange and True World Records
As you probably know by now, November’s “Weird Zone” in OWL is all about world records. It’s two pages packed full of odd and amazing stuff — Waldo gatherings, text messages, slam dunks, and more.
In the spirit of the story, here’s a video featuring a weird record we didn’t talk about: the world’s largest rubber band ball!
Check it out:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az0_VMbDR14]
Whoa. According to the Miami New Times newspaper, the ball stands about 2 m (6.5 ft.) and has a circumference of almost 8 m (26 ft.). It took five years to build, weighs more than 4,200 kg (9,400 pounds), and contains about 730,000 rubber bands.
Talk about dedication, huh? The ball’s builder, a man named Joel Waul, spent as much time working on his rubber masterpiece as I’ve spent working at OWL!
Catch you on Friday, guys!
Craig, owlblog@owlkids.com
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Holy ****! That`s a big ball of rubber bands! I wonder how long it took him to make it?
How do you get rubber bands that big?
OMIGOSH 5 years?
i wonder why they didn’t break
Great questions, guys! I forgot to mention in the post that he had to order special, extra-large rubber bands from a rubber band company in Pennsylvania. (Such a thing exists!)
OMG! That’s CRAZY! At least he finished it! XD
The funny thing was my brother got the 2010 book so i read most of the thing in the Werid Zone and i was like wow! these are all world recoreds! LOL
Whoa. My cousin had a rubber band ball, but not that big!
ooooooooh……….
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biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig……..
that would be fun to have a big rubber band cause then you could like sling shot a book or some thing big
Cool. I was wondering where he’d get those massice rubber bands!
WOWEE!!!!
The is HUGE that would be kool to have.
thats so amazing
I know! I could make a really big net, and get a giant to throw the giant rubber band ball INTO the net!!!…..That isn`t gonna happen, is it.
sweet 😀
That is impressive! I just know that he is not a quiter.I always wondered where people get those big elastics.
c’est tres interseten
darn, I was expecting him to shoot it into the air! (but I guess that would be sort of dangerous)