Flagstaff, Ariz., home to new year pine cone drop

[joebartels]

Dec 31, 4:28 PM (ET)

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - New York City may have its Waterford Crystal Ball dropping down in Times Square to welcome in the new year, but an Arizona mountain town has something more unique _- a 6-foot-tall, 70-pound pine cone.
The oversized LED-lighted aluminum creation hangs from the roof of a downtown hotel as the glamorous high-tech centerpiece of Flagstaff's holiday glow.
Weatherford Hotel owner Sam Green tells The Arizona Daily Sun they will ring in the new year twice Friday: at 10 p.m. when New York does and again at midnight Arizona time.

Dangit I missed the big event

[chumley]

Flagstaff's got nuthin on Snooki!

I mean, come on! Snooki, inside glass ball of her own ... dropped onto the Jersey Shore, with the Situation in attendance?!

Who needs a stupid pine cone! : rein :

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@chumley They should have dropped her from much higher.

[Jim]

an Arizona mountain town has something more unique

Won't the people who come from other places be confused by this inaccurate description and go to Prescott or Summerhaven? It really should say "Plateau" town.

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Won't the people who come from other places be confused by this inaccurate description and go to Prescott or Summerhaven?

Would that be bad?