The world's largest rubber band ball stands six feet seven inches tall and has a circumference of 26 feet. 'It's like, 'What the heck, man? What did I do?'' 'Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I can't even believe this is in my driveway,' he says. When he tosses the tarp onto the pavement, the pencil eraser-like smell of warm rubber becomes overpowering. He snorts in laughter at some joke in his head. The scraggly, baby-faced 28-year-old wears Oakley sunglasses with built-in headphones, a loose black do-rag, and a soft ponytail. It looks like a captured UFO.Īs Joel Waul throws aside cinder blocks to remove the tarp, he appears otherworldly himself. It takes up a full parking space and is nearly as tall as the simple white house behind it. A ratty blue tarp is wrapped tightly around a huge sphere in a Lauderhill driveway.
