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Florida man creates giant rubber band ball

Associated Press Writer= LAUDERHILL, Fla. (AP) — Look, over there. Under that blue tarp in a suburban driveway. That thing that’s the size of a Smart car?

It’s Joel Waul’s rubber band ball.

Waul has spent the last six years carefully wrapping and linking and stretching rubber bands of various sizes into the ball shape. The Guinness Book of World Records declared it the world’s largest rubber band ball in 2008.

On Thursday, Waul will say goodbye to his creation. A team from Ripley’s Believe it or Not will come to his driveway with a crane and haul the 6-foot, 7-inch tall, 9,032-pound behemoth away. The ball will eventually be displayed in a far-off museum yet to be determined, so folks can marvel at Waul’s obsession.

Waul got the idea six years ago, when he saw a Ripley’s television special that showed the then-largest rubber band ball being dropped into the desert from an airplane.

“I just thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen,” said Waul, a 28-year-old who works nights restocking a Gap clothing store.

The idea of setting a world record always appealed to Waul; he recalls that as a 7-year-old in Jamaica he pored over his father’s Guinness Book of World Records.

Creating a ball was easy. He got a few hair bands together. Then some larger bands. The ball grew to the size of a boulder, and his family took notice.

“When it started getting bigger, they knew I was pretty serious,” he said.

The ball eventually got its own Web site. It got too big — and smelly — to keep in the house, so he rolled it outside.

There have been a few casualties: at 400 pounds, it rolled over his hand and sprained it. It busted his big toe. Rubber bands breaking ripped two pairs of cargo pants and broke three pairs of sunglasses.

Eventually, he wrote to companies that manufacture giant rubber bands for physical therapy, and they sent him free shipments.

The ball grew and grew. Neighborhood kids climbed on top of it. Dogs sniffed it.

“That’s his masterpiece,” said his neighbor, 25-year-old Andre Gregg. “I’m just amazed at how he did it.”

Waul and the ball have several followers on their Myspace page, but no one’s been mesmerized by the creation more than Edward Meyer, vice president of exhibits and archives at the Orlando-based Ripley’s.

“We already have the largest string and barbed wire balls,” Meyer said. “This is now my holy trinity, I guess.”

Meyer won’t say how much Ripley’s paid for the ball, which, at 25 feet in diameter, he estimates to be twice as large as the previous record holder.

People like Waul “don’t do it for money,” Meyer said. “They don’t really get rich. They decide they want to do something, and they get possessed. It’s very much Andy Warhol, 15 minutes of fame. It is the desire to be the best at something.”

Now that Waul has set the rubber bands record, he’s focused on the next challenge.

“Human torch,” he says, grinning.

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SONG OF THE DAY

Brought up in South London and Claygate, Surrey, Wiffen first sang with the Kingston upon Thames-based Black Cat Skiffle group. Wiffen moved with his family to Canada at age 16, and became part of the burgeoning folk music scene, initially in Toronto. In 1965, having moved to Vancouver, he was invited to perform at The Bunkhouse club on a live ensemble album. It became Wiffen’s first solo album, David Wiffen Live At The Bunkhouse, on the Universal International label, when the other invited musicians failed to show up.^[1]

He was subsequently in several bands, including The Children, whose members included William Hawkins, Bruce Cockburn, Sneezy Waters and Richard Patterson, and 3’s a Crowd, whose members included Brent Titcomb, Colleen Peterson and Trevor Veitch. Wiffen also cohosted a television variety series on Ottawa station CJOH with Ann Mortifee, which was produced for a period by William Hawkins.^[2]

Wiffen subsequently signed to Fantasy Records as a solo artist. In 1971, he released David Wiffen, and had hit singles with “One Step” and “More Often Than Not”. The album also contained his most widely-covered song, “Driving Wheel”.

Wiffen’s second solo studio album, Coast to Coast Fever (United Artists, 1973), was produced by Bruce Cockburn, and Wiffen’s musical career appeared to be quite promising.^[3] He continued to perform regularly in the 1970s,^[4], though found his success diminishing and a consequent source of frustration and depression, compared to the success of contemporaries Bruce Cockburn and Murray McLauchlan. Alcohol abuse compounded the difficulties he was experiencing in his musical career.^[5] He eventually ceased performing, choosing to become a limousine driver and later a publicly-funded driver for handicapped persons in Ottawa.^[5][6] Wiffen suffered a serious back injury on the job while moving a wheelchair, which required corrective surgery^[5] and impeded any return to performing.

Wiffen’s third album, South of Somewhere, was released in 1999, twenty-six years after Coast to Coast Fever. At that time, Wiffen had been sober for ten years and had spent six years in preparation and development for the album’s production.^[5] The album contained a mix of reworkings of some of his older material, such as “Driving Wheel”, plus some new songs. During this period, he returned briefly to performing,^[7] but has been inactive for several years. As of 2008, he is on EMI’s list of “missing royaltors”.^[8]

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