{"id":270,"date":"2005-06-22T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/06\/great_moments_in_failure.html"},"modified":"2005-06-22T09:35:31","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T17:35:31","slug":"great_moments_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/great_moments_i.html","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major beverage company attempts to raise the world&#8217;s largest popsicle in Union Square, ice chunk melts in summer sun and leaks into the street, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/22\/nyregion\/22popsicle.html?ex=1277092800&#038;en=06446eba9d9259e8&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">objective fails<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Under the noontime sun of New York&#8217;s first day of summer, [Beverage Company], the soft drink maker, answered the question of whether a 171\/2-ton Popsicle can be made to stand upright in Union Square.<\/p>\n<p>It cannot.<\/p>\n<p>In a brave attempt to surpass a Guinness record &#8211; &#8220;The World&#8217;s Largest Popsicle&#8221; &#8211; [Beverage Company] mixed and froze a gargantuan icy doppelganger of its new kiwi-strawberry flavored [Beverage Company] on Ice. Then the frozen treat was hauled by freezer truck from Edison, N.J., and raised with an enormous crane in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, like James Arness in the 1951 alien thriller &#8220;The Thing From Another World,&#8221; the giant [Word Combining Beverage Company Name and &#8220;Popsicle&#8221;] 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.<\/p>\n<p>[Beverage Company] officials first started to worry when the pink liquid began to flow onto East 17th Street. They feared cyclists and automobiles would slip in the ooze.<\/p>\n<p>Ice sculpture specialists who were helping [Beverage Company] with the publicity event also wondered whether the [Word Combining Beverage Company Name and &#8220;Popsicle&#8221;] was beginning to become hollow in the middle and would topple when set upright.<\/p>\n<p>[Beverage Company] officials then decided to stop the [Word Combining Beverage Company Name and &#8220;Popsicle&#8221;]-raising at a crowd-disappointing 25-degree angle. The mushy giant block was then trucked away and a television-sized ice sculpture in the shape of the [Beverage Company] logo took its place.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major beverage company attempts to raise the world&#8217;s largest popsicle in Union Square, ice chunk melts in summer sun and leaks into the street, objective fails: Under the noontime sun of New York&#8217;s first day of summer, [Beverage Company], the soft drink maker, answered the question of whether a 171\/2-ton Popsicle can be made to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}