Great gourds! Watch pumpkins fly in Yaphank
Photo credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas | Deer Park High School freshman Sabrina Rudden, 13, pulls the rope to release the throwing arm on the trebuchet, which can hurl a 5-pound pumpkin some 450 feet over the school's athletic field. On a recent afternoon, a group of Deer Park High School students practiced for the annual Long Island Pumpkin Fling, which takes place Oct. 30 in Yaphank. (Sept. 29, 2010)
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"Fire in the hole!" yelled Bruce Sander, a technology teacher at Deer Park High School.
The group of students behind him backed up. And no wonder. Sander had just placed a volleyball-size pumpkin into a catapult to demonstrate the machine's power. He released the throwing arm, and the ill-fated pumpkin hurtled over the school's football goalposts, past the field's 50-yard-line and above bleachers...
