Drop Everything

 With a new year just hours away let's take a look at some of the things dropped when the year changes. In New York it's the ball drop, in Eastover, NC it's a 30 lb. ceramic flea, in Bethlehem, PA it's a 400 lb. Peeps chick, in Manhattan, KS it's a giant apple, in Temecula, CA it's a 12 foot tall illuminated bunch of grapes, in St. George's,  Bermuda it's a giant onion, in Flagstaff, AZ it's a 6 foot tall metal pine cone, in Lebanon, PA it's 100 lb. 6 foot long giant chunk of bologna, in Tallapoosa, GA it's a taxidermized opossum named Spencer, in Boise, ID it's a giant resin potato, in Raleigh, NC it's a 10 foot tall,  1,250 lb. copper and steel giant acorn, in Eastport, ME it's two items, a wooden sardine and a giant plywood maple leaf. It is customary to kiss the fish for good luck before the drop.