VIDEO: Young and Old Love Pumpkin Smashing

With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the Northeast, Portsmouth area residents took advantage of a beautiful fall Saturday to smash some pumpkins to support the Portsmouth Halloween Parade on Oct. 31.

For $5, visitors young and old were able to smash, bash, crush, and destroy pumpkins with either a baseball bat, shovel, or a large wooden mallet. As many as 100 rotted pumpkins met their door during the Portsmouth Farmers Market at the City Complex.

Julia Luff, a Portsmouth High School freshman, said she enjoyed it immensely. "It gave me an opportunity to get all of my anger out on the pumpkin," she said.

What follows is a video from Saturday's Pumpkin Smashing. The pumpkin seeds were flying everywhere.