In 2008, a Lauderhill man named Joel Waul earned the Guinness World Record for having made the world’s largest rubber band ball. Waul named it “Megaton,” and it stands six feet, seven inches tall, ...

Wade started his ball back in 1975, when he worked at a downtown bank. He noticed a security guard's rubber-band ball and asked how it was made. Figure it out yourself, the guard replied rudely.

She wrapped it around the “waist” of the rubber-band ball to measure the circumference: It’s 35 inches. By still another standard, it’s a four-year assemblage.

It's Joel Waul's rubber band ball. View full size (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)Joel Waul, 27, removes the tarp from his rubber band ball on the driveway of his home in Lauderhill, Fla., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009.

His rubber-band- ball-building days will end once his name appears between the world's largest collection of refrigerator magnets (12,000) and the world's longest scarf (20 miles, 13 feet long).

The ball now stands 5 feet tall, with a 14-foot waist, and weighs an estimated 2,700 pounds. The record was set last year, at 2,524 pounds, by Tony Evans of Swansea, Wales.

Over 8 Feet Tall and Looking for Love Creating a ball was easy. He got a few hair bands together. Then some larger bands. The ball grew to the size of a boulder, and his family took notice.

To keep adding to the size of the ball, Waul asked companies that make giant rubber bands to donate to his cause. This afternoon, workers from Ripley's will use a crane to hoist the ball onto the ...

Golf's top pros are in the final rounds of the 2012 PGA Championship this weekend in South Carolina, so let's take a look at the fascinating history of one fundamental piece of equipment.

The world's largest rubber band ball stands six feet seven inches 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 ...

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 ...

Milton worked on the ball with his 6-year-old son, Bryce, and soon-to-be stepson, Austin Johnson, 7. "We did a little bit of research on how big rubber band balls are, and realized there was one ...