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> most of the balloons ended up in Canada in these tense times, Prime Minister Trudeau should look back with an open heart to the days when a great American city gave the Canadian people thousands of free children's toys.
trying to figure out the downvotes here. was it the Cleveland thing? do people not think Cleveland is a great city?
> most of the balloons ended up in Canada in these tense times, Prime Minister Trudeau should look back with an open heart to the days when a great American city gave the Canadian people thousands of free children's toys.
trying to figure out the downvotes here. was it the Cleveland thing? do people not think Cleveland is a great city?
Here's another fun idea gone horribly wrong courtesy of Cleveland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohvjLTZnH48
In hindsight it seems people didn't think about the future as much... maybe this changed that.
The thing that strikes me is how deep the pathos about Cleveland runs as the newscasters hype the event ("Cleveland is no longer the mistake by the lake!" as the balloons fly). And that everyone seemed so entirely sure that dumping a million balloons into the sky would somehow make everyone stop laughing at the city. And then of course they all landed in the lake anyway.
Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video: 2nd Attempt[1]
Here's another fun idea gone horribly wrong courtesy of Cleveland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohvjLTZnH48
Don’t have the time to watch it now, could anyone quickly summarise in text form? Thanks!
That's 3.75 tonnes of plastic they released into the environment.
Nowadays, I can't look at any helium balloon release and not think it's littering. “Pretty” and out of sight, but still littering. You're throwing plastic into the nature and environment.
It's usually latex. Still littering, but it degrades into mush pretty quick.
If you go into the woods almost anywhere near a city though, you will see mylar balloons in the trees.