A Florida man hopes to make it into the record books with his massive rubber band ball. Joel Waul has been twisting, wrapping and stretching rubber bands for years in the hope of building a ...

tall and has a circumference of 25 feet. It took five years for Joel Waul of Lauderhill to create, weighs more than 9,400 pounds, and contains approximately 720,000 rubber bands. The outer layers ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- It's a stretch to break the record, but Steve Milton wants to make the world's largest ball of rubber bands. Milton, 26, an estimator for a local insulation company, was showing his ...

Once, rubber bands bound things together. Then they became makeshift weapons: Loop one end around a thumb, pull the other and pop at your little brother's big head. At some point, someone -- maybe a ...

I am quite adept at the art of the rubber band ball. Many years ago, I managed to secure myself a job at Gillette which was willing to pay me for doing nothing but create for them a massive rubber ...

Will Love's dream of breaking a Guinness World Record takes shape nightly through loop knots formed into chains of rubber bands wrapped around a garden hose collector until they can be added to his ...

It's over six and a half feet tall, 25 feet in circumference, weighs nearly 10,000 pounds, and everybody says it stinks. No, we're not talking about Kanye West's ego, we're talking about Joel Waul's ...

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 ...

What happens when a 300-pound ball is dropped from 50 feet in the air? A certain amount of destruction, naturally, but also some science-based learning. This is the third year for the Mid-America ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Nabil “Billy” Kishek admits it. There are days when he dreams of burning the ball. He has thrown up his arms in exhausted frustration and told his brother, “I’m finished.” But such an ...

Postal worker Connie Brown adds another a rubber band Thursday to the big ball at the downtown Vancouver post office. Brown said she has been working on the project for more than four years. (Natalie ...