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A family in Alpine planned to have the biggest pumpkin in the neighborhood for Halloween. But now the pumpkin on their porch has disappeared, and they know it must have taken a bunch of guys to steal it.
A couple of weeks ago, the Bassett family took the pumpkin from their backyard patch and moved it to the front porch.
They were actually growing pumpkins in a contest with their neighbors, and this year they won. Their pumpkin weighed in at more than 500 pounds.
It was there on the porch for Halloween, but now it's gone. "I happen to be lucky enough to have the largest pumpkin in the neighborhood this year, about 500 pounds, and we think some high school kids having fun in the middle of the night rolled the pumpkin out to the curb and loaded it in a truck; and I hope they didn't hurt their backs, because there would have to be five or six of them that would have to lift it with that big of a pumpkin," Perry Bassett said.
Stores are selling pumpkins right now for about 13 cents a pound. But the real value in a pumpkin this big are the seeds because they can be used to grow an even bigger pumpkin.
The Bassetts hope their pumpkin will be returned and joke that The Great Pumpkin might just haunt those who stole it if they don't bring it back.
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