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Undertoad

11-07-2016 09:53 AM

Woman in critical condition after Punkin Chunkin accident

There has been general Cellar Punkin Chunkin interest here since its IotDing in 2002, and I know some of us have attended or tried to attend.

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/...ital/93394698/

They had to medivac a woman to the local megahospital, where she remains in critical condition, because this happened:

What a terrible outcome...

Meanwhile, apparently the Chunkin has had a tough time getting insurance all along, and this will surely be the end of it, at least at its current location/incarnation.

~ they could just outlaw the air cannons, and just stick with the trebuchets and whatnot, but... right to bear arms and all that ~

classicman

11-07-2016 09:57 AM

Son1 has been going for years. He said he heard an explosion, but didn't see anything.

Gravdigr

11-07-2016 10:22 AM

She got chunked in her punkin by a chunk of punkin chunker.

Undertoad

11-07-2016 10:24 AM

:lol: a hunk o' junk chunker

Spexxvet

11-07-2016 11:48 AM

Yeah, this is probably it. They didn't hold it for the past 2 years.

UT, the Catapults, trebuchet, and centrifugal are more dangerous. This is the first time I've heard of an incident with an air cannon, but I've seen a pumpkin go backwards from one of the other machines on more than 1 occasion.

I wasn't there this year - they changed the rules about where you can party. It would have been $300 to park in the VIP tailgating section on Saturday, and that's the only place you can loiter and drink.:sniff:

lumberjim

11-07-2016 01:31 PM

so what happened? that piece of metal that flew back hit her? or was that a piece of her flying through the air?

Undertoad

11-07-2016 01:55 PM

Original story said what blew off was the door, where the pumpkins are loaded into the cannon.

Action News story doesn't add much but says

Quote:

Spectator David Aronson, 52, of Falls Church, Virginia, said he was about 25 yards behind the cannon when it exploded. He said it had just fired a pumpkin when a piece blew off the launcher that was the size of a car door.

"It arcs down on this woman who is running away as it hits her," he said.

Aronson said the woman appeared motionless as people gathered around her. A short time later, the competition's announcer asked the crowd to pray as she was flown to a hospital. The announcer then said the contest was over, Aronson said.

turrible

glatt

11-07-2016 02:16 PM

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The pictures at the bottom of the first link show what looks like a door laying on the ground next to her.

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elSicomoro

11-07-2016 02:33 PM

Rhoda and I tried to go one year when it was still in Millsboro, but it was insane trying to get there.

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