Headline AP: Giant Popsicle Melts, Floods NYC Park

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….

Snapple … 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….

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.

Somehow I don’t think a melting popsicle, giant or otherwise, would make a good disaster film. (“The Towering Freeze-pop” or maybe “Popsicle 2005″. No. It just doesn’t work.)

But according to the latest disaster film, isn’t New York was supposed to freeze over due to global warming, not heat up enough to melt giant popsicles?