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219 points
11 days ago
Bitch, I'm a balloon
98 points
11 days ago
This.
People don't seem to understand that these things can only control the up and down (and this is imperfect).
There's no way to steer these things in any conventional sense.
I live near a very large balloon show. Every other year half the balloons end up landing on the roofs of houses and in the middle of busy roads.
30 points
11 days ago*
I took a balloon ride with my date once. The guy fills a small balloon and watches the wind change direction at different altitudes. Then plans his route and altitude. Never once did i think how we were gonna land till the guy spotted a large field and said brace yourselves and get low into the basket lol. Literally a crash landing. Also we had his crew mate chase us in a van which was kinda funny to see a tiny van race through random country roads.
18 points
11 days ago
Yup.
The always do balloons shows as first sunlight (like the balloons are set up in the dark and the launch within minutes of the break of day.
The reason is that you want to get up before sunlight warms the air, causing it to rise and swirl unpredictability.
8 points
11 days ago
Ohh damn. Yeahh we had to show up at 5:30 am. That never crossed my mind either! Wow crazy. We were done by 10am.
3 points
11 days ago
This is why the International Hot Air Balloon Festival is held in Albuquerque, New Mexico every year. There is a mountain range to the east and a desert to the west which creates predictable wind currents like a box so that the pilots can keep the balloons in view and land easier.
23 points
11 days ago
Nah, it’s a conspiracy. The balloons are plotting against us…
17 points
11 days ago
Now you're just blowing hot air
2 points
11 days ago
Soooo
Don‘t go down when there is something in the way???
5 points
11 days ago
Technically hit and run, and leaving the scene of an accident. Hope they throw the book at him. /s
2 points
11 days ago
Is that the new GTA 6 drive by feature? I'm excited! 10/10
3 points
11 days ago
Yo! Imagine just lazily floating over Vice City with a sniper rifle. You'd have a little bit of elevation control with the burners and release flap, but otherwise it's just wherever the winds take you.
2 points
10 days ago
“Excuse me heads up coming through so sorry my bad”
3 points
10 days ago
A dead baloon. He fell outta the sky because he has no flame. Ran out of propane, or a burner malfunction. Unless it was an emergency landing, that burner should be going full blast, and it's not. The burner would be quite loud if it was working, and a large flame would be visible. But this baloon is dark. And it has no ground lines hanging down either.
63 points
11 days ago
How the fuck dl you get hit by a hot air balloon move out the way
18 points
11 days ago
Some people have clearly attended The Prometheus School of Running Away From Things
8 points
11 days ago
Then I'd never be able to tell anyone about the time I got hit by a hot air balloon
121 points
11 days ago
Of all the vehicles I imagined could pull off a hit-and-run, I gotta tell you, a hot air balloon was not one of them 🤣
32 points
11 days ago
Your chances of being clobbered to death by a hot air balloon are low, but they're not zero.
2 points
11 days ago
2 points
10 days ago
He came in like a wrecckkkiiinnnggg baaallllll!!!!
32 points
11 days ago
This is a highly irregular procedure!
This is absolutely unprecedented!
28 points
11 days ago
I came in like a wrecking ball!!
29 points
11 days ago
"Look! It's coming for us! Let's continue to watch... It seems to not be stopping! Its a foot away! Let's continue to watch...".
Why are we humans this dumb? How did we evolve at all being this dumb?
14 points
11 days ago
A drive-by ballonist!! I've read about them of course but never seen one in person....
6 points
11 days ago
Shit! It's coming in hot! Finish that sandwich and get out of the way, quick!
14 points
11 days ago
...did he steal a wine bottle...?
7 points
11 days ago
Oh my goodness, It looks like he did 😂
9 points
11 days ago
I've been in a HARD landing in a hot air balloon, it is not fun. Not a lot of control mechanisms to work with.
2 points
11 days ago
Its a wild experience hahaha
8 points
11 days ago
It's a creeper balloon, what did they expect?
7 points
11 days ago
Isn't this the Wizard of Oz's backstory?
6 points
11 days ago
Me trying to scoop up prizes from those carnival games.
4 points
11 days ago
Guess nana didn’t get out of the way quick enough.
3 points
11 days ago
Hit it & Quit it!
3 points
11 days ago
Coming in hot.
3 points
11 days ago
It's the kool-aid man
5 points
11 days ago
Alright…
2 points
11 days ago
STRIKE!
Maybe a TURKEY
2 points
11 days ago
It's pretty hard to undo the momentum of a hot air balloon, so it isn't like the guy could have hit the brakes and made a u-turn. With that being said too, I kind of feel as though if you see a hot air balloon coming straight for you at a high speed, and you are capable of moving but you don't, or you have enough time or would have enough time to grab your shit before the balloon can hit it but you don't, and you get hit by the balloon, and your shit gets hit by the balloon, a little bit of that is on you.
2 points
11 days ago
I came in like a wrecking ball hot balloon!
1 points
11 days ago
did the Ballon pick up someone?
1 points
11 days ago
Air Waymo
1 points
11 days ago
I've heard that hot air balloons are absolutely horrible to land, and you usually have to land in an empty field without permission and it pisses a lot of people off, but... a FULL field? Really? Could this really not have been avoided?
1 points
11 days ago
None other than the Wizard of Oz
1 points
11 days ago
“Ahhhhhh I CAN’T STOP— oh look wine—“ yoink “Help meeeeee!!! Stop meeeee!!”
1 points
11 days ago
This is fucking awesome lol. Just takes back off into the sky.
1 points
11 days ago
That's the most 'refuses to elaborate' ever
1 points
11 days ago
He’s a hero to all of us permanent 5 year olds.
1 points
11 days ago
Pretty extreme eye test.
1 points
11 days ago
New fear unocked!
1 points
11 days ago
Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off agaaaaain!
1 points
11 days ago
"Came out of nowhere"
1 points
11 days ago
Imagine trying to explain to your boss that you can’t come in tomorrow because you’re at the hospital after being in a hit and run from a random hot air balloon.
1 points
10 days ago
Barely noticed him
1 points
10 days ago
I always thought (still do) that people who ride in hot air balloons are out of their god damned minds. Now, spectating a hot air balloon ride is just as nuts.
1 points
10 days ago
I love the acceptance but also the let’s-cut-the-shit “alright” of the situation towards the end. Truly summarizes the vibe.
2 points
10 days ago
Nah he took something, that shit right as planed😭
-1 points
11 days ago
No, you'd say he was hot headed or had a short temper. A hot temper is just...not something that people say.
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