Snapple floods Manhattan with 17.5 tons of frozen kiwi-strawberry slurry

Snapple tried to erect a world-record-breaking 17.5 ton popsicle in New York's Union Square, but the pop suffered a meltdown and flooded Manhattan with tons of sticky frozen slush. On Making Light, Teresa Nielsen Hayden has done an admirable job of collecting quotes from the best of the coverage of the debacle:

In a brave attempt to surpass a Guinness record--"The World's Largest Popsicle"--Snapple mixed and froze a gargantuan icy doppelganger of its new kiwi-strawberry flavored Snapple on Ice. Then the frozen treat was hauled by freezer truck from Edison, N.J., and raised with an enormous crane in Manhattan.

Alas, like James Arness in the 1951 alien thriller "The Thing From Another World," the giant Snapsicle began to melt. Soon pedestrians were fleeing in not-quite terror, fire trucks were converging, and the police were closing off streets to contain the publicity stunt gone wrong.

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