You can’t park there mate
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They heat up the balloon so it just floats a little over the ground and then drag it by hand to a better parking spot to deflate and load in the trailer.
Came here hoping to see this exact comment. The internet didn't disappoint.
Who's gonna ticket me, you?
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I've heard a lot of hot air balloon pilots carry a bottle of wine or something with them to help smooth things over with property owners who are unhappy about them landing on their property.
So did you get anything good?
No, nothing like that. I got a really good story and video out of it, which is enough for me. :) I’m really glad he was able to set it down without anyone being hurt.
Came here to ask this. Growing up we'd have hot air balloons land in our neighborhood pretty frequently, they'd usually have a bottle of wine to hand out.
Yeah our neighbors got one it missed our property line by less than 20 feet. They got a bottle of champagne or wine. But it was provably 30 years ago.
The funny thing was in the mid 80s, chase vehicles would come down or street all the time and get stuck because it’s a huge circle with no outlet and 4 long cul du sacs along the way, but the maps showed a second outlet road that was never built and blocked off as a fire road.
They’d blast back up the road once they finally figured it out and have to catch up. This was all way before GPS and cell phones, so if they lost sight of the balloon they’d have to go back to sone office and wait for the pilot to call in.
Like in games, when a rare chance occurrence happens like this, and you talk to the pilot and he gives you a rare item (untradeable, of course)
Looks like something out of a Pixar movie
What goes Up must come Down
Initiall I thought that someone set up a prop to make "Up" reference since it's the pics cmmunity. It turned out to be even better.
Someone in the video also said it looks like Up (at 5:59-ish)
Yup, watched it whole. :D
"The day a waning crescent moon eclipsed the sun in my back yard."
Here's the thing they don't tell you about hot air balloons. You are completely and TOTALLY at the mercy of the wind.
I was guarding an empty warehouse on a quite Sunday afternoon. I was standing on the roof just relaxing. The warehouse was right on the edge of the city limits. Beyond it was nothing but farmland. Anyways while i was up there I noticed a hot air balloon starting to descend. It was descending and coming in at an angle quite fast. When it hit the ground I wold say it was still going about 30Kph. and the basket was dragged about a football fields length before it finally came to rest. while it was being dragged I could see two people just go ass over teakettle and fall out of the basket as it was being dragged along.
I assume it was an emergency landing because the wind had started picking up. Unfortunately the field they landed in didn't have any access that wasn't fenced off and was surrounded by deep ditches all around. The chase car drove everywhere around the field to try and get to them and eventually ended up driving up to a farmhouse and I assume they let them onto the field.
I had to get back to wandering the warehouse so I never got to see what finally happened. But it was and interesting part of a quiet Sunday.
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Nice, free balloon
Finders Keepers Losers Weepers.
That's incredible! Makes the transportation nerd in me be fired up with jealousy! And fortunate that no one was hurt, the pilot and the helpers really did a great job jumping your house. Was there any reason they told you why they had to make an emergency landing? Maybe I missed that part.
But it looks like the gondola is lop-sided from the video. Is that it? Seems like the whole neighborhood came out to watch the spectacle :D
He said the winds died down, and he didn’t have enough fuel to keep it up any longer, so he had to set it down. The gondola being lopsided was only once everyone had gotten out and the pilot was the only one in there. It was a big basket too. There were 13 people on board (including the pilot).
this is easily one of the coolest things i’ve seen in lemmy so far. :D
thank you for sharing!!
Now there's something you don't see every day
Looks like your garage is bigger than your house. Nice.
It's kinda like my house. I like to call it "front loading the house" you stick the garage out a lot and put most rooms behind it so your living space is more private from the street. There's an extra buffer layer between you and whatever is happening on the street. The house can still be very big, but it's sort of tucked away.
Just that in this pic, it looks like the balloon isn’t that far back. Though this could be a “ranch style” tract house which is usually this L shape, with the garage being on the short line of the L. This looks like california, where those used to be common. (Though this looks a bit newer.)
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Yep, I like it a lot. :)
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from the european turkish union!
Yeah nah mate, can't park there!
Does this count as a solar eclipse?
That's such a cool photo
I know someone who had a transatlantic hot air balloon land in their family's field
Used to be if a balloon landed on your property without leave they'd have a bottle of champagne for you as a thank you for not shooting. :)
We're British.
So a case of beer then?
We don't shoot people
The world truly is filled with the strangest of cultures.
Congrats, you now have the coolest story you'll ever have to tell at parties.
I saw this on the news! I was watching the video about the bear suit insurance fraud and the story about this started playing right after.
Ok you've got to elaborate on the bear suit insurance fraud
Three dudes, luxury cars. The highlight of all the articles is a wildlife expert that is quoted: "It's clearly a person in a bear suit."
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What a cool experience!
And I love how you were laughing the whole time. It really brought me a smile
That's really cool! How did they transport the balloon & basket after it was deflated? Did they fold the balloon into the basket and load it onto a trailer or something? Did they have extra vehicles to bring the other passengers back? I know almost nothing about hot air balloons
They rolled it up into a big bag, then loaded it onto a trailer. Here, I got a photo. :)
Edit: s/folded/rolled/
I hate it when that happens!
Yoooo I was JUST thinking about how this happened to me when I was a kid. The ballon landed at the end of my street and he stayed handing out business cards to all the parents who went outside to see what was going on.
He totally meant to do that.
Amazing. Thank you for sharing.
That's seems like some House Party shit lol. Damn did two guys from an internet show jump out?
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