I know you want to see the video. It's a riot. The photographer loses his shit when the mammoth jack-o-lantern heads toward him. (I do hate those videos where they place an in-focus video inside a larger blurry video of the same thing. Not artsy, folks. Just incredibly distracting. So stop it.) Click the article link - video embedded.Halloween came early for drivers and pedestrians as a giant, inflatable [25-foot-tall, 350-pound orange jack-o'-lantern] emerged from a group of trees before bouncing through a Peoria intersection and down the roadway in video captured on Thursday.
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Big AZ Promotions, the owners of the pumpkin, didn't know what to expect when they got the call that their pumpkin was on the loose.
"We showed up and it wasn't there and we spent the last 40 minutes driving around looking for it," Sparkes said.
After the pumpkin got free from the streetlight pole it traveled about a quarter of a mile by bouncing over a wall, rolling through a business parking lot and eventually getting stuck in a neighborhood park.
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"This is so heavy, and the straps, it just like ripped the rings out, went rolling down the streets," Shayne Smith with Big AZ Promotions said.
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Luckily, nobody was injured in the great pumpkin escape, but it did damage street lights in the intersection of 83rd and Grand avenues, but those have now been repaired.
12News
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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