Organizers Unable To Find Insurer, Cancel Pumpkin Flinging Contest

The annual pumpkin flinging contest in Delaware has now been cancelled for the second year in a row because the organizers of the World Championship Punkin Chunkin said that they were unable to find insurance coverage.The insurance coverage issue is not the first to cancel the event, as it cancelled the Punkin Chunkin last year, as well. Before that, it was held annually and it allowed contestants to use a range of different homemade contraptions of varying designs to launch pumpkins. The event first took place in 1986 in Sussex County. Organizers have now started to try to find a new location in which to hold the competition, as the Sussex County farmer whose land had previously been used had decided not to offer his property for that purpose any longer.