Boy wants to break record for world's largest rubber band ball

[matcom]

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Timmy Gardner's pet project is more than 10 times the size of a typical pet. It's half his height and three times his weight, and it has to be pushed around on a cart by no less than three people at once.

And it's made up of close to 2 million rubber bands.

"Wanna play catch?" Timmy jokes, patting "Timmy Jr.," the rubber-band ball he's been expanding since before the turn of the century.

An oafish 310 pounds, the ball has to be tied to its cart by bungee rope, and though Timmy used to parade it around every day, it now spends most of its time in his Castleton Corners garage. The last time Timmy tried to get it up the block, he said, he nearly collapsed.

He still takes it out for exercise about once a month -- "Whenever I get enough energy to push it around," he says -- because he's on a mission for elastic immortality: One day, Timmy swears, Timmy Jr. will break the Guinness World Record for Largest Rubber Band Ball.

And he only needs about 10 million more rubber bands to do it.

"My math teacher says I'll be 37 when I'm done," the 16-year-old says, grinning.

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[SmileyBoy]

1. Now there's a kid with ambition.

When I was 10, I had a tinfoil ball the size of a hippity-hop. I got the idea from watching Pee-Wee's Playhouse.

[Dookus]

2. it's nice to see people

who will obviously never get laid develop other interests.

[matcom]

3. SNARF!!

scotch. meet keyboard.

[Maple]

4. Everybody needs a hobby

Beats collecting beer cans.