Balloon strikes Treasury!

Most exciting thing that has ever happened to Treasury – ever.

shirty_bear said :

tuco said :

Surely some sort of signage would have prevented this accident.

that, or a speed camera

Damn it, I was going to type that.

I’m amazed balloons are allowed, they’re not SAFE.

A practical demonstration of the dangers of deflation to the economy…

tuco said :

Surely some sort of signage would have prevented this accident.

that, or a speed camera

Surely some sort of signage would have prevented this accident.

One wonders how much ability these things have to steer, on my only ride in one years ago they let off a small balloon in the wee hours, it headed east so we proceeded to drive to a location in the west to launch and like the first balloon then drifted east over the city.

LSWCHP said :

How the hell does a balloon driver get ambushed by a building the size of the Treasury? It’s not like you could glance away for a second and not see it coming at you at high speed.

Surely he must’ve run out of fuel and lift or some other problem, rather than performing a controlled flight into terrain/buildng.

The enemy (CT!) story mentioned the reason given was they dropped a bit to avoid a mystery balloon above, and misjudged the building clearance slightly….

johnboy said :

unexpected gust of wind would be a guess, plus he hit near the corner so might have thought he was going to deftly steer past the building.

“…deftly steer past the building”. That didn’t pan out like he expected, then. 🙂

How the hell does a balloon driver get ambushed by a building the size of the Treasury? It’s not like you could glance away for a second and not see it coming at you at high speed.

Surely he must’ve run out of fuel and lift or some other problem, rather than performing a controlled flight into terrain/buildng.

This is worthy of a second bite at the cherry – Bishop of Autun, with assistance from Montgolfiers, finally catches up with Keating over JWH slur – gets time (and building) slightly wrong – blames it on Time Lords (and Conroy).