Originally published at: YouTuber arrested after tying dog to balloons and letting it float away (dog is OK) | Boing Boing
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After all those idiots with ballons attached to chairs, I really hope this won’t lead to copycats. 
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I’m glad there’s no such thing as a gun that shoots chemical castration pellets, because I’d be reeeeeeeally tempted to pick one up and find this idiot.
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see? “influencers” are the worst.
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I can think of at least one obvious safety measure he did not take.
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I’m pretty sure the “flying scene” has been faked. That amount of helium isn’t enough to lift a dog. 1 kg of weight requires 956 liters of helium to float. I’m not a dog person but maybe that kind of dog might weigh 2-3 kg.That scene just happens to be filmed besides a tall building so another person must be using a thin line to make the dog float for a while.
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Today’s boingboing posts are like a rundown of the worst people in the world and it’s making me anxious and even more loath to ever speak to anyone ever again.
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I hope it bites him right in the balloons.
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duplidogs
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I heard John Wick is offering him free skydiving lessons.
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You can guess the mindset with the name he’s given the dog, Dollar. As in, “I’m gonna be rich!”
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fine. bring science into it.
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Tying it to a thin line and hoisting it up several stories would be only slightly less assholish to the dog.
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I believe he made his intentions clear when he named his dog Dollar.
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We see the balloon/dog being ham-handedly hoisted right to the 2nd story balcony. They dont even have to be using fishing line, since the line of sight to the balcony is blocked.
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I might remind you that the first passengers of the Montgolfier brothers balloon experiments were a chicken a duck and a sheep. “The king proposed to launch two convicted criminals”(wiki).
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Yeah, pretty sure it’s faked. A few years ago my wife and I had a leftover helium canister from our kid’s birthday party. We wanted to see how many balloons it would take to make a Barbie float away. It took more balloons than that guy had just to get it off the ground.
It would have been better had it been a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. (See XVIII here. And don’t ever let it be said that a study of Classics doesn’t prepare students for real world problems.]
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15. PROPOSITION MAN.
I tell you that you have done as a charmed man in his field, both on the field when the loans done three times?
Love what Google translate does with this.
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The film Mondo Cane now seems like empty trivial fluff compared to the lunacy these days.
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