Now here's something you don't see everyday.

[JulesMaximus]

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Giant Popsicle Melts, Floods New York Park

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.

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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.

 

[Mrvile]

...What were they planning on using this for?

 

[scorpmatt]

Sticky situation, no?

 

[scorpmatt]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
...What were they planning on using this for?

what does a popsicle look like to you if your mind is in the gutter?

 

[notfred]

Should have attempted this in January.

 

[MAME]

now that's what I call a sticky situation

 

[Queasy]

Dumb. Why the heck would you try to put up a giant popscicle during the middle of the summer in New York? Should have waited until late fall/early winter.

 

[iroast]

Good idea that a frozen treat should be consumed in the summer, but promo should've taken place in the winter. Oh well.

 

[tami]

too bad i don't work at union square anymore. that would have been fun to watch.

 

[Fritzo]

This is officially my favorite news story today

I would have LOVED to have seen that!

 

[lokiju]

They should have done it in winter.

 

[tami]

but it's raining in nyc now