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I love this story. Charlie Brown's got nothing on this great pumpkin. Take a look
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The crowd at Half Moon Bay saw history in the making. Look at this thing
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A California engineer rolled in a gourd so massive, even the forklift groaned, if you will
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Brandon Dawson's giant jack-o'-lantern tipped the scales at, get this, 2,346 pounds
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Oh my gourd, that is a ton of a pumpkin. Dawson says he's used the same precision he brings to his engineering job
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measuring sunlight, temperature, even water flow to turn his patch into a science project
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I was in this position last year, but I lost by six pounds
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This year I was able to take the win, and that's really what the goal was this year
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was to win one of the best, if not the best, pumpkin weigh-ups in the world
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Hey, good for him. And the satisfaction of a job well done is not all Dawson won
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he gets a pretty big slice of the pie, if you will, a $20,000 prize
