Happy September! Have you had your first pumpkin spice latte yet? Went to a pumpkin patch? Floated in a pumpkin down a river? Wait, that last one? That happened, and a new world record was set in the process.

60-year-old Duane Hansen of Bellevue, Nebraska went into the Syracuse, Nebraska mayor's office with witnesses to declare his Guinness Book of World Record attempt to float in a giant pumpkin further than 25.5 miles, which up until this past week, was the distance record.

SOMEONE TELL LINUS HE CAN RIDE IN THE GREAT PUMPKIN

I don't think the mayor was exactly aware that Hansen himself was going to be "floating" in an 846-pound pumpkin for this record attempt.

Here's what the mayor had to say:

Hansen paddled/floated 38 miles down the Missouri River, smashing the four-year-old record. It took him nearly 12 hours to complete his journey.