What would you do with a 2,600-pound giant rubber ball? Why,
throw it off the back of a plane, of course. The world's big-
gest rubber band ball has been dropped from an airplane at one
mile high. A U.S. television company offered to give the ball
a spectacular send-off by filming the event and airing it on
their television show, Ripley's Believe It or Not. The produ-
cers spent an estimated $4 million on the episode to film it
during its descent and capture the action as it bounces to un-
known heights. However, there was a problem: instead of bounc-
ing, the ball created a massive crater in the sun-baked earth
of the Mojave Desert in Arizona at 400 mph. Prior to its crash
and burn plummet, the ball had been the 14-foot 8-inch circum-
ference creation by Tony Evans, comprised of six million ela-
stic bands.