Once, rubber bands bound things together. Then they became makeshift weapons: Loop one end around a thumb, pull the other and pop at your little brother's big head. At some point, someone -- maybe a ...

Plenty of us have stuff we have been hanging on to for a long time and maybe need a little push to get rid of. For one East Tennessee man, the recent flood was just that push, after 11-inches of water ...

Look, over there. Under that blue tarp in a suburban driveway. That thing that’s the size of a Smart car? It’s Joel Waul’s rubber band ball. Waul has spent the last six years carefully wrapping and ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Nabil “Billy” Kishek admits it. There are days when he dreams of burning the ball. He has thrown up his arms in exhausted frustration and told his brother, “I’m finished.” But such an ...

tall and has a circumference of 25 feet. It took five years for Joel Waul of Lauderhill to create, weighs more than 9,400 pounds, and contains approximately 720,000 rubber bands. The outer layers ...

A Florida man hopes to make it into the record books with his massive rubber band ball. Joel Waul has been twisting, wrapping and stretching rubber bands for years in the hope of building a ...

As the weather chills, it's time for some fun with cold temperatures. Most of us already know how tough rubber can be, but rubber after it's come into contact with liquid nitrogen is a different story ...

RUSTON, La. (AP) - Will Love’s dream of breaking a Guinness World Record takes shape nightly through loop knots formed into chains of rubber bands wrapped around a garden hose collector until they can ...

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EUGENE, Ore. -- It's a stretch to break the record, but Steve Milton wants to make the world's largest ball of rubber bands. Milton, 26, an estimator for a local insulation company, was showing his ...