Sunday 9 November 2014

Think you can Maze it? Try the World’s Largest Corn Maze, bet you would call 911 to help get you out

The gigantic 63-acres--Cool Patch Pumpkins corn maze, in Dixon, California, is officially the biggest corn maze in the world. Though it looks easy to navigate when one steps in it, but visitors soon realize it is more complicated than they originally thought and quite a few visitors have actually resorted to calling 911 for help.
This Guinness Record piece is a creation of two brothers-Matt and Mar Cooley, who personally hand-cut five miles of winding twists, paths, loops and turns.

Describing the Maze, Deputy Daryl Snedeker from the Solano County Sheriff’s department said: “There’s a concern; there’s a bit of fear involved. I think they are overwhelmed. You can get a little worked up when you can’t get out of a place and everything looks the same. We don’t laugh, it’s not a comedy to us, and our dispatchers have a very serious job, and they take every call to 911 seriously. The reason the corn maze bogs people down is the sheer amount of time it takes to get through. Most people who enter the maze don’t realize that it’s going to take several hours to get out of it. The longer they’re in there, the more they start to panic. The maze has managed to confuse dispatchers as well."
According to Matt, getting lost, tired and afraid is the whole point of the maze.
“When it’s dark, all you see is corn. A lot of people have been telling us that it has taken them a couple of hours to get through the corn. They are afraid and they are tired. They are tired of being lost, which is the whole idea," Matt said.

Good news to visitors, Matt assures that it isn't a real emergence but for all to enjoy the experience of being lost because everybody eventually gets out, even with the help of 911:)

This year, the maze was has been in existence since 2007 with 43.5 acres; finally broke the Guinness Record for the world’s largest maze after the Cooleys kept added few acres to bring it to 63 acres. It was opened last month-October-as a Halloween attraction, with an admission fee of $12 and would be opened again next year.


            

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