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  • Honey Boo Boo Suffers Injuries In Car Crash

    Honey Boo Boo, whose real name is Alana Thompson, and the rest of the family, of the popular TLC reality show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo , were involved in a serious car wreck on Monday night that left them all with minor injuries.

    “It happened so quick,” Mama June told PEOPLE on Tuesday. “Before I could say watch out – boom – he had already hit us.”

    Apparently 19-year-old Seth Cagle, was speeding, without his lights on, when he crashed into their 2012 Suburban. Alana and her family were taken, by ambulance, to the hospital to be treated for minor injuries. “Pumpkin went into a full panic attack and has severe bruising on her chest from the seat belt,” June explained. “Alana hit her head on the glass.” June suffered whiplash and back and neck sprains. Sugar Bear also suffered a back sprain

    While they all remain sore, June says the top priority was to celebrate Pumpkin’s birthday. “We are definitely really sore today, but our top priority is to celebrate Pumpkin’s birthday,” June said in a statement. ” She turned 14 today and no matter how sore we feel we are going to go out and celebrate. As always we want to thank everyone for their support and well wishes.”

    The new season of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo will premiere January 16, on TLC.

    Image via Twitter

  • Mom’s Message for Pumpkin Thief Goes Viral [IMAGE]

    It’s no secret that when someone wrongs a woman’s child, the claws come out–or in this case, a cardboard sign with an expletive. After someone stole her 2-year-old’s pumpkin, Becky Reina of Washington, D.C. left a not-so-friendly sign on her porch for the pumpkin thief. The sign was spotted by a blogger for Left for LeDroit, who wasted no time in posting it online. Check it out:

    (image)

    To the person who stole my son’s pumpkin: Thank you for the life lesson. This will teach him that sometimes people are mean for no reason and you have to just brush it off.

    Because my son is 2-yrs-old and cannot read this sign, I will add:

    You are an asshole.

    Reina said that her family put out four carved pumpkins on their porch–one each for herself, her husband and her two kids. When they went out one morning last week, the family saw that someone had made off with her 2-year-old son Tommy’s pumpkin.

    “On Thursday we came out and there were only three pumpkins,” Reina told WJLA. “Pumpkins get smashed, pumpkins get stolen, of course,” the mom said. “I was really just mad because it was only his pumpkin [they stole].”

    Since the blogger posted the picture of Reina’s message for the pumpkin thief, it has gone viral. Reina says she has been contacted by numerous media outlets about the sign, including one from across the Atlantic in England.

    The LeDroit Park mom has no way of knowing whether the pumpkin thief has spotted the sign yet, but says “I do hope they see the sign, and I hope they feel bad about it.”

    Reina’s sign for the pumpkin thief has gotten all sorts of comments. Some call her a “hero mom” while others crack down on her for using bad language.

    One user identified as Mary said, “The problem with this sign is that it completely ignores the fact that there are other children (older than her 2 year old) who actually can read and now will ask their parents what an ‘asshole’ is. I understand the frustration over the situation, but lets not be so self-involved with our own children that we forget about other children. I hope this sign comes down ASAP.”

    What do you think about the mom’s reaction? Respond below.

    The thief that made off with the toddler’s pumpkin isn’t the only person who is trying to mess up Halloween for kids. A woman in North Dakota has decided to hand out letters to overweight kids this year instead of candy.

    [Images via LeftForLeDroit]

  • Thief Returns Prized Pumpkin, Leaves Note

    Ah yes, York, Pennsylvania. Home of the York Peppermint Patty, York International Air Conditioners, the rock band “Live,” and now prized pumpkin theft. On Sunday, a thief returned a 255-pound pumpkin a boy won at a Windsor Township Oktoberfest celebration, along with an apologetic note.

    Nine-year-old Jaiden Newcomer correctly guessed the weight of the whopping pumpkin, and was able to take it home and put it on his family’s porch. The pumpkin was quickly swiped, though after a weekend outing, the Newcomer’s found that it had been returned.

    The included note read, “I’m really sorry about taking your pumpkin, it was wrong of me, you earned the pumpkin, I didn’t think my actions through nor realize who they were affecting. Sincerest apologies.”

    I’d once lived in York for 7 years, the self-styled first capital of the United States, and recall that the people there take their gourds, Indian corn, cucumbers, squash, melons and pumpkins quite seriously.

    Jaiden’s mom Amy told the York Dispatch that her son is “very excited. He’s beside himself.”

    Still, someone goes through the effort of jacking a 250 pound pumpkin from a stoop, from a little kid, but then apologizes, so the incident is now testament do-goodery and kindness. The late Norman Rockwell could’ve painted the situation. Some might say the present national ethos demands a serious reaching for anything that might resemble an ideal. Along with a serious reaching for recreational squash.

    Live’s ode to York, featured on their 1994 album “Throwing Copper,” is entitled “Shit Towne:”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuJj3jpZCEk

    York, also known as Yorktown in the mid 18th to early 19th century, was founded in 1741 by settlers from the Philadelphia region, and named for the English city of the same name. Today, much of York’s culture is indicative the city’s evolving role as an agricultural and industrial center. Half of all Harley-Davidson employees work in York, and one of Starbucks’ four roasting facilities in the world exists just north of the city. And there’s big pumpkins.

    Image via Wikimedia Commons.

  • The Agourdian Sends Off Halloween With A Song

    Halloween is over and we’ve had our fill of candy. Now we can all focus on Thanksgiving before the ruthless retail cycle shoves us into Christmas before we have a chance to catch our breath. Before all that though, let’s take one last look at Halloween with this amazing musical instrument made out of pumpkins.

    Self-professed musician, electrical engineer and amateur designer Chet Gnegy has created what he calls the Agourdian. It’s a synthesizer that responds to hand movements and creates tones for a wide range of musical applications. What makes this invention so unique is that the technology has been built into a range of seven pumpkins that light up while they’re being played.

    Gnegy explains how he did it in the video description:

    Seven jack-o-lanterns are equipped with infrared proximity sensors and synchronized flameless candles. In response to a human player moving their hands in an almost percussive manner, the jack-o-lanterns light up and produce tones. The system uses 555 timers as tone generators that are then processed and filtered using analog circuitry. An Arduino microprocessor is used to control lighting and volume envelopes and to receive the signals from the IR sensors.

    This year has proven to be amazing for pumpkin and Halloween related technical feats. First there was Pumpktris which recreated a playable form of Tetris inside of a pumkin. It was followed by an astounding stop motion animation that was created entirely with pumpkin carvings. Now this has topped it all of by proving that pumpkins can indeed be musical instruments.

    I can’t wait to see what these guys and others cook up for Thanksgiving. It’s an underappreciated holiday that needs more amazing feats of technical wizardry.