Workers respond to reports of a pair of mylar foil balloons tangled in power lines at Long Beach California.
Let’s hope those helium-filled rascals don’t short circuit the lines, blow up the transformer and kill power across the neighbourhood.
Everything. As It Happens.
But Helium is inert right? Was it perhaps hydrogen instead?
They don’t fill children’s balloons with hydrogen. That would be very dangerous and stupid. Mylar balloons have a thin aluminium foil coating which is what caused the short. You’re welcome.
He didn’t say thank you – but I will. That was interesting.
Balloons: the new, unassuming face of terrorism
Surely Myers Balloons… poof!