Fred the Chicago Watermelon

Exploratory Days are always a source of great entertainment and today, it did not cease to amaze.

One skill that Chicago students have become quite adept at is on-the-fly-club-creation. Clubs, the type defined as an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal, is now being created in record time. 

Today, it was the Experiment Club: A club dedicated to experiments. 

Today's question was, how many rubber bands could be stretched around a watermelon before it succumbed to the pressure and popped? Absolutely brimming with curiosity, a couple students brought the poor watermelon outside to suffer a slow and completely undeserving death. As more and more rubber bands found themselves stretched around the waist of the watermelon, the students became more timid and cautious, fearing the impending explosion would send watermelon chunks into their mouth, ears, nose, or hair in a very appealing way. 

Sadly, this turned out not to be what was in store for the bright young kiddies. After using every rubber band in sight, the watermelon still resisted with a quiet determination characteristic of such watermelons. This, clearly, was not ok with the aforementioned Experiment Club. 

Dedicated to their mission of destroying the watermelon, they carried it up to the lofty heights of the second floor, opened the window, and flung the watermelon to its end- much to the joy of the spectators below. Thus concludes the sad, but unpredictable life of Fred, the watermelon.