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08-30-2012, 01:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: South Shore
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Did anyone see a hot air balloon go down...
last night at dark east of Duxbury Beach?
At about 8:00...
I saw a reddish/yellow glow in the sky. Pulled out the binoculars and it was a hot air balloon. After 30 seconds or so, the flame went out and it plunged straight down into Cape Cod Bay. Reported it to the Harbor Master kids and the Duxbury Police. Haven't seen anything in the news...
Anyone have info?
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08-30-2012, 01:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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Wish lantern.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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08-30-2012, 06:37 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: South Shore
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looked them up. seems like a high probability. thanks Nebe.
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08-30-2012, 07:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Marshfield, Ma
Posts: 2,150
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Are those things against the law? Thought I had heard that as they can be confused as a distress signal on the water....
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"I know a taxidermy man back home. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him!"
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08-30-2012, 07:21 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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lots and lots of those things sent off Sandy Neck most nites by the campers
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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08-30-2012, 07:25 PM
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Chris Blouin
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Warren, RI
Posts: 3,330
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not sure if they are illegal.
my wifey and i sent one off for her dog that we had to put down, she wrote little notes on the balloon and put some ashes in it, was a nice way to send him off.
they go pretty high on a calm night and are supposed to be safe, cause they only land/crash when the fuel is empty.
on a windy day they wont work, the fuel isnt strong enough to withstand high winds without being blown out.
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08-30-2012, 07:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Bethany CT
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chefchris401
on a windy day they wont work, the fuel isnt strong enough to withstand high winds without being blown out.
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or keep them from getting blown into trees or the neighbors house as they rise  |
No, no, no. we’re 30… 30, three zero.
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08-30-2012, 07:49 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 2,939
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Those things are great as long as you light them with a half a brain. If you have enough room to get them up they are not a problem once up. They wont peacefully fall on top of someones roof.
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08-31-2012, 04:34 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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Hopefully they don't land in woods, dry woods.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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08-31-2012, 05:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
Posts: 4,152
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Hence their simplicity: no fuel - they fall, they fall - no fire!
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08-31-2012, 06:02 PM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
Posts: 4,516
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YOUU FOOO
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seals + plovers = 
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09-01-2012, 06:31 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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I did, about twenty years ago
at the Lakeville Golf Club on a sunday morning playing with the same guys I always played with. You heard it first. Great sounds of rushing air being forced up into a balloon by the gas flame. Only problem was there was a huge rip in the side of the balloon. The sounds of rushing air was actually air was made by air escaping from inside the balloon through the huge rip. It hit some trees on one side of the fairway I was playing in, bounced onto the middle of the fairway if front of me, back up into the air, hitting trees more solidly on the other side of the fairway and crashing down for good one fairway over. A one ton van with a basket for transporting the balloon came racing across the golf course with the course owner in hot pursuit. Guy drove partly onto the putting green and everywhere else he wanted to to get to where the balloon came to a halt. There was quite a battle with the van driver and course owner. We all kept playing. The cops showed up, and squared things away, not before damages to the putting greens were assessed and agreements worked out to pay for those damages. It was the weirdest thing though watching it crash and those six people hanging on for dear life fifty feet away from me. Pilot did a great job, actually heroic, doing what he could to keep it aloft.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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