Giant 25ft popsicle attacks NEW YORK
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050622/...sicle_disaster

NEW YORK - An attempt to erect the world's largest Popsicle in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film ? but much stickier.
The 25-foot-tall, 17 1/2-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted faster than expected Tuesday, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid that sent pedestrians scurrying for higher ground.

Firefighters closed off several streets and used hoses to wash away the sugary goo.

Snapple had been trying to promote a new line of frozen treats by setting a record for the world's largest Popsicle, but called off the stunt before it was pulled fully upright by a construction crane. Authorities said they were worried the thing would collapse in the 80-degree, first-day-of-summer heat.

"What was unsettling was that the fluid just kept coming," Stuart Claxton of the Guinness Book of World Records told the Daily News. "It was quite a lot of fluid. On a hot day like this, you have to move fast."

Snapple official Lauren Radcliffe said the company was unlikely to make a second attempt to break the record, set by a 21-foot pop in Holland in 1997.

The giant pop was supposed to have been able to withstand the heat for some time, and organizers weren't sure why it didn't. It had been made in Edison, N.J., and hauled to New York by freezer truck in the morning.

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Must have been made out of blue eskimo pops

why am I craving a snapple?

Why am I craving a popsicle in my ass? :helpme :winkwink:

why do i suddenly not want a popsicle anymore :1orglaugh

No pics? The bugs and rats must be happy.

25f eet and 17.5 ton?? that dont compute unless it was as wide as it was high... dont belive it

You do realize you can't copy and paste an entire article, only a piece of it in quotes and then link to the actual article ... just FYI ... but the article is interesting nonetheless.

:helpme ? huh ?

You mean legally ? or ?

Because i just did cut and paste the entire article so i think your wrong. :1orglaugh
* actually i cut and pasted the entire article BUT i cut out the advertsing, the --------------------- stands for ""

I think she means you can't copy or disseminate it in it's entirety. (copyright laws?)

Yeah, I'm slow today ... Yes, copyright laws say you can't do a whole article only a part of it and then link to the rest.

lol i didnt believe it at first, crazy article