Nearly 2,Silip000 spectators gathered in the Canadian city of Saskatoon last weekend to watch one of life's simplest pleasures: giant fruit crushing stuff.
Per CBC News, the city's first-ever Operation Pumpkin Drop was held to raise money for a local pediatric fund. The event featured three gargantuan pumpkins being dropped from a 40-foot crane, which is obviously perfect fodder for the Twitter videos that have been circulating since Sunday.
SEE ALSO: 6 incredibly fashion forward sweaters for fall 2017One pumpkin was full of candy, triggering a stampede of children. (Nothing like candy with pumpkin guts all over it!)
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Another pumpkin, which weighed around 1,300 pounds, was dropped onto a car. We'll say it: hell yeah!
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Here's the same thing in slow-motion, just so you can really take in the glory:
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The third pumpkin was filled with numbered ping-pong balls that were sold to patrons before the event. The person whose ping-pong ball landed closest to a target on the field won the ~grand prize~ (and became the de facto king or queen of the pumpkin drop, to be honest).
The event reportedly raised more than $9,000. Not bad for a bunch of smashed squash.
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