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You can’t park there mate
Came here hoping to see this exact comment. The internet didn’t disappoint.
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.
Who’s gonna ticket me, you?
Nice parking job rita!
“You landed in my yard, so now you’re all my property. Sorry, I don’t make the rules!”
Now there’s something you don’t see every day
Does this count as a solar eclipse?
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.
So you don’t want living space to be a part of the community.
Yep, I like it a lot. :)
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.)
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?
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)
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.
Yeah nah mate, can’t park there!
from the european turkish union!
Amazing. Thank you for sharing.
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).
That’s such a cool photo
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
This article also has the surveillance footage they submitted to their insurance.
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.”
You also forgot what they named the investigation “Operation Bear Claw”
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.
this is easily one of the coolest things i’ve seen in lemmy so far. :D
thank you for sharing!!
The gentle argument at the end of who gets to stay home 😆
Lol, we definitely both wanted to. :)
