Boy Shoots 900 LB Banana

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.

Alex plans to make 950 banana cream pies with the prize winning fruit.