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Scoreboard damaged by errant pumpkin toss

FULLERTON, Calif. (UPI) -- A scoreboard at California State University-Fullerton was damaged as a result of a pumpkin tossing mishap, a Discovery Science Center official said.

Center Director of Education Keith Brush said a group of college engineering students created a makeshift cannon to shoot pumpkins, but the cannon was so powerful it shot a pumpkin more than 120 yards into the Titan Stadium scoreboard Saturday.

"The scoreboard is fine ... it works ... it was a small hole," Brush told The Orange County (Calif.) Register. "Nobody seemed to be in a huge panic."

The engineering students had planned for the pumpkin to strike one of two plywood targets set up about 50 yards away, Brush said.

"They had no idea how far it was going to go," he said. "You know, with engineering projects, they usually don't work out the first time."

The Register said almost 3,000 people attended the second-annual "Pumpkin Launch" held by the center Saturday.

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This news arrived on: 11/02/2009

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