Yuma, Arizona - People tend to get creative around Halloween. Take Tom Pearcy, owner of the York Maze, the largest maze of its kind in the U.K. According to the Association of Mature American Citizens, Tom grew a massive pumpkin this year.
It weighs nearly 1,400 pounds and so he petitioned the folks who keep track of official world records at Guinness, not that he thought he could win the title for the biggest pumpkin ever grown. That belongs to a Belgian whose gourd weighed in at 2,624.6 pounds. Tom sought the title for the biggest pumpkin boat. He scooped out his jack-o-lantern and turned it into a pumpkin boat. There is no standard record for a pumpkin boat, so Tom might be the first record holder for that category – if Guinness agrees to establish one.