Originally published at: Man in balloon floated away while collecting pine nuts, found safe two days later | Boing Boing
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Hydrogen balloons. I wonder what could go wrong.
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How very “Danny Deck Chair” like!
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he was largely unharmed, suffering what were described as only minor injuries to his waist.
I wanna know how he got the pizza & chicken wings delivered while up there?
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Here are a couple videos of folks pine nut harvesting in balloons
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“Pine nut, which is a nut, but it’s also the name of a town. Pistachio nut. Red pistachio nut. Natural, all natural white pistachio nut.”
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“Who is the guy who floated away?”
“Yes, that’s him.”
“No, no, I mean the guy who floated away. Who is he?”
“Hu.”
“The guy in the balloon. What’s his name?”
“Hu.”
etc.
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Ha, just came in here to post the same exchange!
Leaving contented…
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Honestly, I think hydrogen balloons have a disproportionately bad rap. It’s not the safest lifting gas but it’s also not that dangerous. If it does catch fire the flames go straight up. Many people don’t know that 62 out of the 97 passengers and crew on the Hindenburg survived, which is much better than many airliner crashes.
Using balloons of any type for harvesting pine nuts seems to be pretty dangerous though. I found several similar stories from prior years where they drifted away unintentionally, so that seems to be the real risk, not death by fire.
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I said, Hu’s house, runs house?!?
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Hu Hydrogen Balloon
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Otto Warm Beer? That’s not a horrible choice for nominative determinism…
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Yeah, this was first thought:
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This poor Priest hadn’t the same lucky flight.
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Hu! Hu! Hu!..
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Came to ensure The HU put in an appearance. Carry on.
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