George W. Bush didn?t scream when he was catapulted 100 feet into the air. Neither did John Kerry.
You know you are in the journalistic groove when your story starts out like that. This is from a Statesville Record & Landmark account of a recent ?pumpkin poll? in which two local groups built catapults and launched pumpkins bearing the likeneesses of state and national political candidates.
Some of the Dems didn?t fare well:
Some pumpkin heads didn?t go far. Sen. John Edwards, draped in a cape, was thrown straight into the ground only 10 feet away, and Gov. Mike Easley really didn?t go the distance.
But others soared.
Lt. Gov. candidate Jim Snyder?s head soared the furthest, splattering at the 95-yard marker.
Pumpkins were launched as ?Pomp and Circumstance? and tunes from ?Star Trek? blared in the distance.
As you can see, there are so many reasons to love this story that I can?t list them all, except to add that hot dogs and ancient military engineering were involved.
