Pit-spitting championship is all in the family

Husband, wife from Arizona win international titles

Get weird & wonderful news on Twitter

Looking for more strange and fun stories and oddball videos? Follow @msnbc_wow.

Video: Weird news

Man drives car into courthouse
Nov. 7: A driver crashes his car into a North Carolina courthouse, and it's caught on security camera video from several angles. WCNC's Tony Burbeck reports.

Tancredo's tantrum

Robbery suspect is Matt Lauer look-alike

Exec: Track suit got me booted from first class

Kangaroos invade town

Bald bears leave zoo officials baffled

Inmates rock ‘Queen’ hits

Slideshow

Guinness World Records
See the biggest rubber band ball, oldest bungee jumper, longest ear hair and much more.

more photos

Discuss odd news on Newsvine

Newborn Found In Dumpster | Indiana's NewsCenter

A language of their own: How to understand what your dog is trying to tell you

A 500 word article on Cheese Whiz! pt2

China shames prostitutes by posting naked photographs of them on the Internet

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Woman passes 950th driving test

Get even more oddness on Newsvine!

Most popular

• Most viewed

• Top rated

• Most e-mailed

Brazil student expelled after wearing mini-dress

16 Apple products we can only dream about

Alleged shooter tied to mosque of 9/11 hijackers

Big question mark: Fate of health care in Senate

State of emergency in Louisiana ahead of Ida

Most viewed on msnbc.com

updated 10:39 p.m. ET July 5, 2009

EAU CLAIRE, Mich. - A husband and wife are tops at this year's International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship.

Rick "Pellet Gun" Krause, of Tuba City, Ariz., spit for the win Saturday at the contest, held in the state of Michigan. In somewhat windy conditions, he shot a pit 48 feet and half an inch.

Organizers say his wife, Marlene, took first place in the women's contest, spitting a pit 36 feet, 3 inches.

Story continues below ↓

advertisement | your ad here

The Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm just north of the Indiana border hosts the event. Orchard owner Herb Teichman launched the competition as a lark 36 years ago, but it now attracts competitors from the United States and beyond.