Lauderhill, FL – It started with just a few rubber bands.
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But four years, $10,000 and more than 700,000 rubber bands later South Florida resident Joel Waul has clinched the Guinness World Record for the largest rubber band ball.
The ball, which sits under a tarp in Waul’s driveway, is 9,032 pounds, and more than six-feet tall.
The 27-year-old says the ball has been sponsored by two companies so he will add another 4,000 pounds to it.
Waul’s ball beats out the current 4,594 pound record. Waul, who started working on his ball in 2004, says the ball is famous in his neighborhood.
“Some of them don’t believe it. Some of them knock on my door when I’m sleeping. They take pictures with it. Stuff like that,” he said.
could it be that it resembles the maximum of 7000 years of the world survival to the GEULAH
bounce that , I’m with jigger !
WOW! What a great accomplishment for this young man at the age of 27. What can he do in the remainder of his life to top this?
At six feet tall, this rubber band ball has a circumference of more than 18 feet. Where does he buy rubber bands big enough to fit around?
The Jewish children who lived in NY in the early 1900’s used to make a rubber band ball to bounce because they couldn’t afford toys!!!
Hope he has LoJack on that ball,
In that area anything not chained down is for the taking
Now I know why there isn’t a rubber band available in any Florida store. He apparantly bought them all.
I think he should Get a life.