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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This drop test shows what happens when a rubber band ball reaches extreme size. At 1 ton, the ball behaves more like a shock ...

LAUDERHILL, Fla. — Look, over there. Under that blue tarp in a suburban driveway. That thing that’s the size of a Smart car? It’s Joel Waul’s rubber band ball. Waul has spent the last six years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Building a huge ball out of more than 175,000 rubber bands is dangerous business. Really. "The rubber bands ... sometimes they'll break. That hurts," said Steve Milton, whose 4,594-pound rubber band ...

NPR librarian Kee Malesky has been dubbed "the source of all human knowledge," saving NPR hosts and reporters from themselves for 20 years. She shares her adventures from the reference desk in a ...

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, ...