Boy Shoots 900 LB Banana.
Tuesday May 29, 2007
Associated Press
Aardvark, Md.
That's the question being asked Tuesday about a stunning photo distributed last Friday by the Associated Press that purports to show an 13-year-old Maryland boy standing behind a half-ton banana his father said he bagged with a b b gun.
The boy, Alex Humumlmahay looks tiny in the photo as he stands behind his prize fruit , which his father claims measures 9 feet 4 inches, and weighs 951 pounds.
"It feels really good," Alex said last week in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big."
Alex's father, Jim Humumlmahay, said the prize banana was hauled off on a truck to the Clay County Farmers Exchange in Lineville, where Rusty Shackleford said they used his scale, recently calibrated, to weigh the banana, according to the Associated Press and a story published in the Aegis newspaper.
Shackleford's scale measures only to the nearest 10, but Jim said it balanced one notch past the 950-pound mark.
"It probably weighed 950 pounds. We were just afraid to change it once the story was out," he said.
