Ah, the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade...an American tradition...but bring your 'space junk' hardhat with you here, for balloons and other parade things are always falling, dropping, getting wrapped around, swinging through windows and you name it. Here are just a few recent examples:
In 1986, there were two incidents: a 61-year-old bagpiper had a fatal heart attack while marching in the parade, and a spectator fell out the fourth story window he was watching from and landed on someone below.
In 2006, two sisters were attacked by M&Ms. The ropes of the 515-pound balloon promoting the tasty chocolate morsels got caught up on – yes – a lamppost. Neither of the girls were hurt too badly – just some minor scrapes and bruises. In exchange for their ordeal, they received V.I.P. seats in the grandstand and a lifetime supply of M&Ms (that’s 384 packets every year, in case you’re curious).
I guess the good thing is if you get flattened by the Miss Piggy balloon you may get free pork chops for life. The bad thing...it's hard to eat without a digestive system. For more parade incidents: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20362#more-20362
1 comment:
Sounds like a person might not
want to take a chance and go to
the Thanksgiving parade, altho
it might be worth it if I could
win a years supply of pork chops.
I know the parade isn't like it
used to be. They have so much
music and dancing and don't even
show half of the horses,floats and
etc anymore. Maybe it's just me
since I am aging but it doesn't
seem to be near as good as years
ago when they just showed the
parade. . . . . . . Oh well, I'm
sure they can't please everyone.
HAWKS 55- Minnesota 0--- what a
game. WOW.
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