Uploaded October 2010 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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A 1968 Bluebird Midwest, a 50 seat occupancy bus manufactured in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, sits out across an open field of red peppers precisely 377 feet from a pointed cannon. And what's being fired at the bus—pumpkins—loaded by young children, and their parents who themselves may never be too old for enjoying such fun.

For about 7 years during most of October, farmer Don Wachlin, of Schlichting Century Farm in Sherwood, Oregon, draws scores of kids who delight in firing their grapefruit size pumpkins at the old bus.

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