A US man has made the world's biggest rubber band ball.
Steve Milton, of Eugene, Oregon, created the ball out of more than 175,000 rubber bands.
Guinness accepted it as a record breaker after it tipped the scales at 4,594lbs at a Chicago weigh-in.
The mammoth ball, which has a circumference of 19ft, broke the former record set by John Bain, whose ball weighed in at 3,120lbs.
The 26-year-old started his ball in November 2005 with just a few small rubberbands.
"It was just a great project with me and my kids," said Mr Milton, who worked on the ball with his six-year-old son, Bryce Milton, and his fiancee's son, Austin Johnson, 7.
"We did a little bit of research on how big rubber band balls are, and realised there was one out there that was 3,120 pounds and we knew we could do it."
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Sunday, November 26, 2006
World's biggest rubber band ball
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