Austin Sweatt revisits the giant pumpkin that swallowed an officer
His "Temu Pumpkin Disaster" retelling passes a million views in ten hours, with viewers imagining the decoration as a hungry monster.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,700,431 views a day, 8.8 times a normal first day on this channel (192,756).
Temu Pumpkin Disaster
The decoration towers over the houses. Then it disappears from the yard, and Austin Sweatt cuts to dashcam footage of a giant inflatable pumpkin rolling straight into a police officer.
"Temu Pumpkin Disaster" revisits an older viral spectacle rather than a fresh emergency. Sweatt frames it as an online-shopping size mistake: someone wanted a pumpkin and ended up with something considerably harder to keep in its place.
His retelling links the yard footage to a follow-up post announcing that the decoration has vanished, then to a news clip showing an officer engulfed by orange inflatable fabric on a dark street. The dashcam sequence carries a Bay Village Police Department credit.
The Short has passed a million views in ten hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for the format. In the comments, viewers give the pumpkin an appetite, compare the scene to Goosebumps and killer-tomato movies, and invoke Linus's Great Pumpkin.
Another Sweatt upload, "Endless Cruise Just Ended 🤦🏻♂️", has also crossed a million views. But the pumpkin gives this retelling its unusually literal payoff: the missing decoration turns up on the news, with an officer caught underneath it.
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What viewers say
The Pumpkin hungers.
@alfiemartin316See it on YouTubeThis is something straight out of the killer tomatoes.
@solidbane12See it on YouTube"Giant pumpkin swallow police officer"
Sounds like Goosebumps story@lumineers6235See it on YouTube
3 more comments
This is the great pumpkin Linus talked about.
Happy Halloween everyone!@elijahallison122See it on YouTubeI remember seeing the video of the officer getting swallowed by the pumpkin and years later I finally learn why there was a giant pumpkin
@kawaibakanekoSee it on YouTubePumpkin: Boi I am hungry
Officer
Pumpkin: Hmmm yummy@CristoferRivera-j1m8ySee it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- Austin Sweatt
- Subscribers
- 520,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 27,273,122
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,074,823 (on a normal day: 3,862,627)
- Video published
- October 31, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,065,281 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,700,431
The numbers
The pumpkin Short has already surpassed Austin Sweatt's usual first-day views, with much of its first day still to go.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which plant family do pumpkins belong to?
Pumpkins belong to the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, alongside cucumbers and melons.

