This is Joel Waul, springing into action as he climbs on top of the colossal rubber band ball he made.
The 27-year-old spent six years carefully wrapping, linking and stretching rubber bands of various sizes into the ball shape.
And his endeavours paid off, because the Guinness Book of World Records declared his masterpiece the world's largest rubber band ball.
On Thursday, Waul said goodbye to his creation. A team from Ripley's Believe it or Not came to his house with a crane and hauled the 6-foot, 7-inch tall, 9,032-pound behemoth away on a large, flatbed truck.
Waul and the ball have several followers on their MySpace page, but no one's been mesmerized by the creation more than Edward Meyer, vice president of exhibits and archives at the Orlando-based Ripley's.
"We already have the largest string and barbed wire balls," Meyer said. "This is now my holy trinity, I guess."
Meyer won't say how much Ripley's paid for the ball, which, at 25 feet in circumference, he estimates to be twice as large as the previous record holder.
The ball will eventually be displayed in a far-off museum yet to be determined, so folks can marvel at Waul's obsession.
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