On 27 July 2014 12:17, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Chris Mitchell > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Scary things balloons. Hard to steer. We had one land on the local >> cricket pitch. A large expanse of ground, but unfortunately the under >> 11s were playing a match at the time. Loads of panicky kids, a very >> irate coach and a very red faced balloon pilot. Nobody was hurt. > > Wow, Chris. Kids there must be much different than kids here.
No different Dan, but this wasn't a gentle planned landing. The first that was seen of the Balloon was when it appeared over the trees at the edge of the ground. There was a stiff breeze and it clipped a sight screen (a large wooden structure that would kill you if it toppled over on you). There was no ground crew and all of the adults on the ground were concerned with making sure that 22 10-11 year olds who were scattered over the acre or two of a cricket ground weren't in the way of the dragging basket. To add insult to injury, the basket ploughed a groove across the square ( the bit of the pitch that is kept flat so that the ball bounces in a true manner). Luckily nobody was hurt. Chris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
