# It's pumpkin homicide! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2001, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688 "2001-10-26T01:53:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/21 "2001-10-27T22:26:08Z")
Reeder, everyone, The particular locale where the Punkin Chunkin is held? My hometown. Less than a mile away from my house, in fact. _Why yes, I **do** live in an area where a big cultural event is when hydraulic cannons shoot frozen pumpkins across a field._ ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/22 "2001-10-27T22:49:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andygirl \* > The particular locale where the Punkin Chunkin is held? > > My hometown. **Less than a mile away from my house** , in fact. > [@](#): > > _From the Punkin Chunkin website_ > **Air cannons will fire pumpkins nearly a mile** :eek: Let’s hope they’re aiming the cannons away from your house! ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/23 "2001-10-27T22:53:26Z")
As a matter of fact, they did shoot in the opposite direction. (And they changed location a few years ago, but it was held by my house before.) Interestingly enough, one year they stretched a big “X” over the roof of the Lewes Church of Christ to use as a target. Nobody hit it, which is good if only because there would have been severe roof damage. (They are frozen, after all.) There have been incidents of damaged cars, though. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/24 "2001-10-28T18:05:22Z")
Oh God, help me! Euty, they are right there on the tip of my brain, and I can’t get it to click! Someone stop the madness! ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/25 "2001-10-28T20:19:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kricket \* > \*\*Oh God, help me! > Euty, they are right there on the tip of my brain, and I can’t get it to click! > Someone stop the madness! \*\* “You owe me restitution!” ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/26 "2001-10-28T20:20:55Z")
Well, since we’re doing spelling quibbles, I’d like to take issue with the title of the thread. “Homicide” is killing a person, so a “pumpkin homicide” would surely be killing a person with a pumpkin- perhaps by hitting him on the head with it, or putting it over his head so they cannot breathe. Yes, I know that ‘him’ is a gender-biased pronoun to use for ‘person,’ but I don’t know why on earth I would want to kill a \woman\ with a pumpkin. Surely this is a simple case of pumpicide. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/27 "2001-10-28T20:41:26Z")
No, that’s when you kill someone with spike heels. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/28 "2001-10-30T07:49:27Z")
Man, tough crowd! But in all honesty, by the time I had gutted them with the help of four of the five heathens, I was about ready to kill someone with a pumpkin. Namely my husband who didn’t raise a finger to help, but kept walking in asking if I was done yet! Euty is a bad bad man! It’s a good thing I am into the whole tease and torture thing. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/29 "2001-10-30T22:16:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kricket \* > \*\*Euty is a bad bad man! > It’s a good thing I am into the whole tease and torture thing. \*\* “That’s okay. I’ve done a lot of stupid things too.” [sub]"Stupid! Whattya mean stupid??? …[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Kalashnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/30 "2001-10-31T01:27:48Z")
The pumpkin shoot was indeed a blast 😃 We not only turned several truckloads of pumpkins into muddy mush, setting off some explosives that had been planted inside them, we somehow managed to start a fire in the woods behind the backstop ('s ok, it was easily extinguished). I didn’t get to shoot any of the big toys though, only an Uzi and an M16. photos and movies (turn your volume all the way up for realism) of last year’s pumpkin shoot: [http://www.tmcarms.com/photos.htm](http://www.tmcarms.com/photos.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/31 "2001-10-31T02:55:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \* > \*\*Slimy pumpkin guts…ewwwww! But the seeds, roasted…yummy! \*\* You don’t have to pull all the guts out… as proven by [this particularly hideous specimen](http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~apollyon/images/pumpkin.jpg), whose photo was sent to me last Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![Ferggie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@Ferggie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferggie)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/32 "2001-10-31T03:00:27Z")
“Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.” ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/33 "2001-10-31T06:57:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ferggie \* > \*\*“Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.” \*\* Don’t you start now! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/34 "2001-11-01T11:28:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kricket \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Ferggie \* > > \*\*“Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.” \*\* > > Don’t you start now! \*\* “You’d better cut it out right now or I’ll pound you!” ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/35 "2001-11-01T12:07:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Apollyon \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \* > > \*\*Slimy pumpkin guts…ewwwww! But the seeds, roasted…yummy! \*\* > > You don’t have to pull all the guts out… as proven by [this particularly hideous specimen](http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~apollyon/images/pumpkin.jpg), whose photo was sent to me last Halloween. \*\* EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! that was such a **disgusting** picture! (i have it as the background of my monitor now :D) dammit, i sooooo miss jack-o-lanterns! but taiwan a. doesn’t have proper pumpkins (no demand! [sub]partypooper taiwanese[/sub]), b. doesn’t celebrate Halloween (which explains a.), c. hi **Opal**!, and d. does not have jack-o-lanterns in general. urgh… _goes green_ ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/36 "2001-11-01T17:07:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kricket \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Ferggie \* > > \*\*“Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.” \*\* > > Don’t you start now! \*\* Good Grief! You don’t recognize these? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/37 "2001-11-06T19:03:17Z")
I know them enough that I recognise I should know where they come from, but I just can’t place them. And it is driving me crazy! I cannot believe that nobody has come to my rescue! Don’t you people love me anymore? ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688/38 "2001-11-06T19:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kricket \* > \*\*I know them enough that I recognise I should know where they come from, but I just can’t place them. > And it is driving me crazy! > I cannot believe that nobody has come to my rescue! Don’t you people love me anymore? \*\* clue #1: the author was called Sparky by his friends. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pumpkin-homicide/89688.md?page=1)