Serious Eats
1,500-Pound Pumpkin Disqualified Because of Gash
"[Steve] Connolly's pumpkin weighed in at 1,568 pounds, just 121 pounds shy of the world record, at the Southern New England Giant Pumpkin Grower's Annual Weigh-Off. But he was disqualified because of the hole, located along a rib of the pumpkin." [Boston Globe via Bostonist]