LAUDERHILL, Fla. — Look, over there. Under that blue tarp in a suburban driveway. That thing that’s the size of a Smart car? It’s Joel Waul’s rubber-band ball.
Waul has spent the past six years carefully wrapping and linking and stretching rubber bands of various sizes into the ball shape.
The Guinness World Records book declared it the world’s largest rubber-band ball in 2008.
On Thursday, Waul, 28, said goodbye to his creation. A team from Ripley’s Believe It or Not came to his house with a crane and hauled the 6-foot, 7-inch-tall, 9,032-pound behemoth away.
“It’s a little bit sad to see it go, but it’s going to be appreciated by thousands and hopefully millions of people in Ripley’s museum to see and wonder, ‘What was this guy thinking?’ ” Waul said.
Now that Waul has set the rubber-bands record, he’s focused on the next challenge.
“Human torch,” he says, grinning.
