Seen on Facebook: WE WANT TO SMASH YOUR PUMPKIN! A muscle-bound, professional pumpkin smasher will obliterate your nasty pumpkin or jack-o-lantern with a gigantic, wooden sledgehammer (really). Or YOU can smash your own*. Yes, it will be messy. Yes, it will feel good. Yes, we’ll have extra pumpkins here for you to smack-around. No, you won’t have to clean up.
Extra pumpkins on-site for purchase with 100% of those proceeds going to charity. Costumes are encouraged.
While it almost seems cruel to smash pumpkins on November 3rd, just days after they illuminated our Halloween, this was for a good cause. And the madness of it all was irresistible.
Sure enough, The Growler Guys on Lake City Way in Seattle hosted their First Annual Pumpkin Smash. The Growler Guys are located in the pointy building that once was the vibrant yellow Ying’s Chinese restaurant. Somehow TGG managed to preserve the historic aspects of the building while making it look new and inviting.
Upon arrival carnage was in session. Here the owner instructs a man in the fine art of obliterating squash. I don’t have this man’s permission to post his photo so did a little sloppy airbrushing. Please don’t ever ask me to paint a car.
Angst ahoy!
Kablam.
These are not without purpose…
The owner cuts open a new pumpkin and stuffs it with previous victims.
An almost-full moon looks on in horror.
Wait for it…
About this time I was asking why we hadn’t been issued protective plastic sheeting like at a Gallagher show.
Sp-lat!
It was hilarious when a bus stopped at this exact spot and surprised passengers stepped out into the scene of the crime.
There was something oddly therapeutic about it all. And those smashing pumpkins got to put money in a jar for the Red Cross. See you all next year… but hopefully with masks on.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. -Thoreau
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