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Yeah, there’s a band (or was) with that name, but I’m talking about the real thing.
\nFriday morning after trick or treating in our neighborhood Thursday night I awoke to find pumpkin shrapnel in my driveway. Seems some teenager had used out concrete as the weapon of choice against someone’s jack-o-lantern.
\nThe mess I cleaned up was nothing compared to what the staff at Universal Studios had to clean up after Friday’s Conan O’Brian show.<\/p>\n

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Conan had the worlds biggest pumpkin guy on the show and they topped it off by bringing in the monster truck Grave Digger<\/a>, ostensibly to crush it to get the seeds out. (Evidently, world record pumpkin seeds can bring $500 a piece. Who knew?)
\nThe jump was perfect and the driver and Grave Digger creator, Dennis Anderson<\/a>, was clearly having a lot of fun as he tramples the remains two more times.
\nAn interesting side note is one of my High School classmates, Charlie Paukin, is also a driver<\/a> for the Grave Digger team. I remember the modified high roller bike they talk about in his bio. He’s been driving monter trucks for a long time, I can remember the Excalibur truck that he started on being parked behind a house on Harrison Street in my home town back in the mid 80’s. Excalibur, I believe, was the first truck to beat the Ford Big Foot trucks back when they were the biggest name in the business.
\nHT to Autoblog <\/a>for the YouTube link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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