Rhode Island farmer's giant pumpkin weighs in at 3,156 pounds

What BBN said about it

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTime to pay that off: a Rhode Island farmer's pumpkin weighed in at three thousand one hundred fifty-six pounds at a contest, and it may have broken a world record.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThree thousand pounds. That's a small car with a stem, and nobody checked whether it was parked legally.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd here's the part I love: the record it may have beaten is less than a month old, so somebody's trophy barely had time to get dusty.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLess than a month. Records are going off faster than milk, Vera.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOr farmers are getting better, and we should celebrate that. Someone out there fed a vegetable like it was their own child.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFed it what, exactly? Because a pumpkin that size has opinions, and I don't want to learn them.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's a pumpkin, Dale.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt's a pumpkin that needs a forklift.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNext month somebody grows a bigger one, and the record gets knocked off again before the pie is even cooked.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFine, one pie the size of a hot tub. I'd show up. Chat, how big would your pumpkin pie be?

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI'm quietly rooting for the pumpkin, for the record. Let it take Rhode Island.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRex, your sport has a three-thousand-pound pumpkin to tackle. Does the Gridiron have a plan?