One sure-fire way for flyover towns to put themselves on the tourism map is to create the largest ____ in the world. Doesn't matter what it is, as long as it's the largest. Texas is better at this than most states--and Australia has loads of big things--but lowly Connecticut is getting in on the game with the world's largest jack-in-the-box.
The super toy belongs to Bill Ziegler, known to residents of Middletown, Connecticut as the town's most notable eccentric, the owner of Wild Bill's Nostalgia Center.
Wild Bill just happened to have a 600-pound clown head and a 33-foot silo both lying around unused, so really, what else was he going to do with them? Bill explains how his monstrous creation should change the face of Middletown:
We really feel that this is gonna be a destination for people, crazy people, just like us that need this kind of thing in their lives.
Well said! While Guinness hasn't approved this one yet, there's no known second-largest jack-in-the-box in the world, so Wild Bill looks safe on this one.
Related Stories:
· Artist Adapts Silo into Giant Jack-in-the-Box [Middletown Press]
· Wild Bill's [Official Site]
· Weird Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: House of Sims]
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