Would you shoot at a big balloon carrying baffoons

[baboon]

Gas balloon crashed into Texas power lines while attempting to land amid gunfire, pilot says

A competitive gas balloon pilot who, along with another man, crashed into power lines earlier this week in North Texas said they were shot at before they went down.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Someone needs to meet the Rope.

 

[seeker_two]

Zapart told the station he was worried someone might think they were a Chinese spy balloon.

"Most people in the West thinking about Chinese spy balloons," he said. "I think it is a big problem for us."

Sounds like just the thing a guy flying a Chinese spy balloon would say.....

 

[Texasjack]

More likely they were landing in a pot field.

 

[Geezer]

Another headline that I never expected to read.

 

[Wudidiz]

He failed to say how he surmised that he was being shot at. He just said that he heard what he considered gunshots. The pilot may have been a severely medicated Democrat.

 

[Army 1911]

Apparently they never heard of the Hindenburg!

 

[dsgrey]

I bet he just screwed up and thinking this was Texas...I'll claim someone was shooting at me.

"Would you shoot at a big balloon carrying baffoons" sounds like an excellent title for a Dr. Seuss book.

 

[Tnhawk]

I’ve seen many hot air balloonists and all were in multicolored balloons in groups followed by spotter vehicles. This story has a foul odor and in view of recent events I am suspect of the truth.

 

[baboon]

While in college the wife worked at a 1 hour photo place in Alameda Mall. The FFA use to bring in the investigation film for developing. One roll was of a hot air ballon that hit high tension power lines. My brother worked as a lineman & seen a guy get killed on high tension lines. What he described & what she described were exactly the same thing eye balls blown out, the exit of the electricity blowing a foot off, plastic frames of glasses melting & clothes fusing to the body.

 

[Grumps21]

I bet he just screwed up and thinking this was Texas...I'll claim someone was shooting at me and yelling ”this is maga country”…. Jussie Smollett, 1/29/2019