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Originally Posted by getbak
They used to have a big race every day during Stampede, but I believe the Dairy Queen ice cream cone balloon crashed into some power lines one day, and the city cracked down on the regulations.
When I was a kid, I lived across the street from a big green space park, and we'd usually get a balloon land there at least once a year.
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Did that actually happen? I remember hearing the same thing as a kid (the cone balloon was my favourite by far) but the story is the type of childhood lore that might or might not actually be true AFAIK now.
I used to live in Hawkwood when that was where the city ended, and the balloons would often land just there by my house. I remember watching them come down and going over to see them land. Hadn't really thought of them again until this thread, but now that it's been mentioned, I can't remember the last time I saw one in the sky. I remember counting 14 once upon a time.
Would like to give it a go someday, but like others have said, it seems these things have all sorts of issues actually getting off the ground. Probably some kind of nanny-stating going on.
