NEW YORK - An attempt to raise the world’s largest ice pop 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. Some passers-by slipped in the puddles, but no serious injuries were reported.

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

“We planned for this. … We just didn’t expect for it to happen so fast,” said Snapple spokeswoman Lauren Radcliffe. She said the company would offer to pay the city for the cleanup costs.

The giant ice 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.

“My theory is that it was a combination of the heat … and it may not have been frozen all the way through,” Radcliffe said.

She said the company was unlikely to make a second attempt to break the record, set by a 21-foot ice pop in Holland in 1997.

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Yes, after going to Salem, OR today I hit a deer. I had to go down to Salem for a business meeting. Meanwhile after the meeting walking back from the coffee shop we saw a friend of his girl friend blow past (she has a lead foot), but she saw us and few into a parking spot, we ended up going back to the coffee shop and hanging out for a little while and I got her cell number, yay. She’s very cool and drives like me; I need to call her tomorrow…

Back to the deer…

…I was pitching up a switch from the LAN party some friends of mine had this weekend and on the way back, I was driving around a blind corner, BAM and well you can figure out the rest. No I don’t know how the deer was in my mirror it was belly up in the ditch but because it was on a blind corner I couldn’t stick around and ask him if he was ok, or she for that matter. But, my truck is fine I just need to adjust the headlight and get a new turn signal bulb and it will be all better.

On another note after having my laptop take a dump on me about a week and a half ago I havn’t been able to post because I have been to busy at work and in the evenings im on mhy brother’s laptop like I am now. He is playing on my xBox so I can use his laptop, a fair trade. So still stay tuned for the updates of my Indy 500 trip.

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