Seriously, they intend to use this crane to lower this giant fake potato from a height of about 60 feet, at midnight.

Seriously.

Update:

We were specTaters for this.  Got there a little before midnight.  We’ve never seen downtown Boise so crowded.  Turns out they didn’t use the giant potato on the flatbed truck.  Instead they had a ‘stunt spud’ to hang off the crane.  They got it about 12 stories above a parking lot before lowering it.  They had to speed up because the crowd started counting down from ten a little too early.  Anyway, it was a a goofy,  but fun way to end 2013.  Happy New Year’s everyone!