Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Halloween leftovers!

Pumpkins were flying Saturday and Sunday at the 12th annual World Championship Punkin' Chunkin' contest, in which contestants compete to see who can heave a pumpkin the farthest - without using explosives.One contraption this year was powered by a V-8 engine, another by canned nitrogen.

Trey Melson of Harbeson won this year's unlimited category - considered the most prestigious - by hurling a pumpkin 3,718 feet with a contraption painted in camouflage. It landed in a chicken coop.

The contest even draws spectators. In the crowd that gathered on a rain-soaked field to watch the festivities, Jim Remy, of Stone Harbor, N.J., couldn't believe his eyes.

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"It's technology with no known purpose," Remy said. "Only in America."

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