AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350.5lb fruit. When accountant Chris Kent is not in the office number crunching, he is growing whopping watermelons. Melon man Chris, from Sevierville in Tennessee, entered his prize fruit into the 2013 Pumpkin and Fall Festival in Hamilton in Ohio and came away victorious for the second time.The Great Pumpkin Commonwealth - a sanctioning body for contest of giant fruits and vegetables - was conducting one its annual weigh-offs and declared his giant melon was an incredible 42.5 lbs heavier than the previous world record, set by Gabriele Bartoli in Italy in 2012.
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