The ballistic pumpkin-launching event, featured on the Discovery Channel, and “held for years on a succession of rural Sussex County farm fields, was to have moved to the same grounds that host Firefly this year. After a volunteer filed a personal injury lawsuit in 2013 over an ATV accident at the 2011 Chunk, the farmer hosting it in Sussex County said he wouldn’t let it return to his property.” Organizers have now resigned themselves to skipping 2014, and hope to hold the event in Dover next year. [Wilmington News-Journal]
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Let’s see how far Yankee Siege can throw him.
@Mannie,
Let’s see how far one of the former space shuttle’s solid rocket boosters can throw him instead.
Just got my refund for my tickets. Damn.
Wouldn’t it just be easier to ban ATVs on the property? From what I’ve seen, some of those participants and spectators could use a little exercise.
@kdp–
The farmer probably figured that if it wasn’t ATVs, it would be something else. The old-fashioned spirits of gratitude and self-reliance were no longer there to protect him.
KDP: If it’s not ATVs it’ll be some other damn thing.