South Florida Man Sells World’s Largest Rubber Band Ball to Ripley’s

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Featured on Episode 8 of the 2009-2010 season, aired on Wednesday, November 4, 2009.
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A south Florida man had a ball creating a project that has gone into the record books. "Ripley's Believe It or Not" came to Joel Waul's Lauderhill, Florida home last Thursday to pick up what he calls his baby. It is now officially the world's largest rubber band ball. For five years, the twenty-eight-year-old worked on the ball in his driveway after it got too big for his house. It now weighs almost 10,000 pounds and is over 6 feet high. He's glad to have it out of his yard because he said the Florida sun was drying out the rubber bands. Ripley's Believe It or Not will place the ball in one of their museums.

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Wow!  I can’t believe that ball is so big!  I wonder how they pushed it out of the house!  There had to be lots of people to push it!  I bet they will get in the Guiness Book of World Records.

Luke Holzworth 8:36 AM 11/6/09

"Wow!That is one big rubber ball!I wonder how long it took to make that ball?Over ten,thousand pounds and six feet high,wow!If anyone can pick that up,I want to see it with my own two eyes.

Yamileth Souffrain 5:37 PM 11/6/09

That rubber band ball is huge!!!!  How did they get the strings like that? I can’t beleive it ways about 10,000 pounds thats a lot, probably 100 times more than me!!! It must be cool to set a record..

Abby Schick 10:09 PM 11/9/09

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