OfficeMax Sponsors World's Biggest Rubber Band Ball

Steve Milton makes rubber band balls so large that if they were dropped from the top of a skyscraper, they would bounce clear into space and vaporize the moon. He's so good at it that he has apparently been paid by OfficeMax to create a world-record breaking rubber band ball.

OfficeMax is transporting the World’s Largest Rubber Band Ball in early-November from the Eugene, Oregon garage of creator Steve Milton to downtown Chicago for its official November 21, 11:00 a.m. weigh-in ceremony at State Street and Jackson with Guinness World Records official Sarah Wagner. Experts predict the OfficeMax-sponsored rubber band ball – created by Milton with help from his 6-year-old son, Bryce – will break the earlier world record of 3,120 pounds, set by John Bain of Wilmington, Del. The 26-year-old Milton, who started his ball in November 2005 with a number of small OfficeMax rubber bands, says the ball now contains 175,000 individual rubber bands. The rubber ball stands 5 ½ feet-high and has a circumference of 19 feet.

During transport, I feverishly imagine the rubber band ball breaking free of its chains on the back of the flatbed and wreaking such destruction that the army eventually calls in battle tanks to destroy the bouncing, blood-stained katamari.

Ruber band ball maker turns pro – gets a sponsor [Boing Boing]