The tallest mound of
chewing gum measured 19.35 metres, and was left behind after a
thunderstorm in Quebec on April 20th 1946. Professor Morton Signet,
a meteorologist, concluded, “This is a similar sort of phenomenon to rains of
frogs, where a freak weather system picks something up, probably from a body of
water, and deposits it a great distance away. I am guessing that the moisture
and movement within the storm cloud imitated a gigantic mouth, thus chewing the
pieces of gum into one object, which was later deposited here in Quebec.” The
mound collapsed five days later, killing a local poultry merchant.
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| Although the area has built up in the intervening years, this traffic sign is effectively used by academics and fans as representing the site of the chewing gum mound. Photograph by Dougtone. |
