Pumpkin fuckers have their way with it.

If memory serves they either go home with the entrant, or get donated to be used as animal feed. They arent very good pumpkins for, like, human pumpkin stuff. You could carve them I guess, but they aren’t good eating pumpkins.

One of the big pumpkin influencers (I know...) I follow on YouTube shows them turned into boats for a pumpkin boat race, and then drop them onto things with a crane. They are allowed to collect seeds first iirc. Then the scraps are fed to pigs.

They hollow it out and make it into a caravan.

Interesting, I read that most giant pumpkins come from places like Alaska as they like to take advantage of the longer days in the summer.

The Japanese do stuff like that with vegetables and fruit, like putting tomatoes in forms to make them square.

You won't be able to weigh one with the harness and its sudden removal could lead to a real tragedy.