A Utah man said a final farewell to the Geo Metro he drove for 35 years by dropping a 1,917-pound pumpkin on it from a height of nearly 14 stories.
Millville resident Alan Gebert said his 1991 Geo Metro finally stopped running this year, so he decided to send the vehicle off in style by destroying it with a giant pumpkin.
Gebert’s 1,917-pound pumpkin, which took first place at the Utah Giant Pumpkin Festival weigh-off, was hoisted about 14 stories into the air by a crane at Hee Haw Farms in Pleasant Grove.
The pumpkin was dropped onto the 35-year-old compact car, caving in the roof in spectacular fashion.
“It’s just something that we’ve talked, me and my wife have talked about for a long time, that this would be the best way for it to go, and it happened, so it’s been kind of fun,” Gebert told KSTU-TV.
