Nearly 20 spectators were given a little more trick than treat after a section of a Memorial Union pier collapsed into the water during the ââ?¬Å?Giant Pumpkin Regattaââ?¬Â Sunday afternoon.
While watching the regatta ââ?¬â? where students and community members ply the waters of Lake Mendota seated atop carved-out pumpkins attached to inner-tubes ââ?¬â? numerous attendees congregated on a section of pier adjacent to the race that subsequently buckled under their weight, leaving them chest-deep in cold water.