Teacher from Minnesota smashed the U.S. pumpkin-weighing record in California and walked away with more than $20,000.
A Minnesota teacher drove 35 hours with his prize-winning pumpkin to outweigh his competitors and walk away with more than $20,000.Travis Gienger, a horticulture teacher from Minnesota, grew a gargantuan pumpkin at home and drove it 35 hours across the country to enter it in an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California. The end result: a new U.S. record.
Gienger, of Anoka, Minnesota, set the new record with a 2,560-pound pumpkin in the 49th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco. Gienger's two-day trip to California saw him treat the pumpkin with special care, wrapping it in plastic and wet blankets for the ride,"Minnesota has a great midyear, but our spring in our parts is really, really tough," Gienger told reporters. "So to do it in Minnesota, it just shouldn’t happen. It’s like winning the Tour de France on a Big Wheel. You know, you can only hope, but it worked.
Gienger, who won the same contest in 2020, narrowly broke a record set last week in New York, where a
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