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You would be nuts to play Russian Roulette with these.

For some reason the 'professionals' who captain these things have a blind-spot where Powerlines are concerned.

And then they build these things out of combustible materials that are airlifted by rocket-power feeding hot air into them.

It's an idiots' game.

lets face it herb, not everyone wants to hide in fear of everything that may go wrong,  like you do

It's all about where you do your hot air ballooning. I would never do one around an urban area because there are too many dangers lurking. However I did mine out in the country and it was absolutely beautiful. Mind you, now that I've done it I probably won't do it again. Some of these balloon pilots are a bit cowboy-like.

Belgarion wrote on Jul 31^st, 2016 at 5:07pm:



I agree  everything has its danger...

this is so awful but no need for the knee jerk.....

.they are looking into the hotair Balloon laws.. so maybe they are a bit lax....

how many times have we seen buses kill their holiday passengers... it happens...its not as if its deliberate....

Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 31^st, 2016 at 6:25pm:


1,200 people died on Australian roads last year, Her-bert.

Did you cross a road last year, or get in a car/taxi/bus?

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 31^st, 2016 at 9:25pm:


Now here's a moot point, the police argue, that slowing down the speed and booking people (even for doing 4 ks over) etc has reduced the road toll.....and that is total fabrication....totally revenue raising lie, as the road toll statistics have proven otherwise each and every year.

Sophia wrote on Jul 31^st, 2016 at 10:29pm:


I have no problem with revenue raising.

Triple the fines, I say.

Quadruple them!

I've found a fool-proof way of avoiding being fined by the police.

Are you ready for it?

Ok.

Here goes.

I don't break the law!

It's quite cunning, no?

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 31^st, 2016 at 10:36pm:


Greggory, Greggory, Greggory, I understand what law is, I have not had any fines since I can remember when, not even a parking fine.

But the police with their insistence of lowering the speed to a snails pace to lower the road toll, is a fallacy, as each year, since that false statement was made, I have remembered it, and keep seeing the news at the end of each year "the total road toll is (a figure quoted) higher than the previous year. That statement they made was to justify their making so much revenue from constantly lowering the speed limit.
We see it, where the roads can be a comfortable 70 or 80, is down to 60 for the heck of it.

Our road we live on, where we live, is the 'green wedge' between towns.
That road used to be 80 kph...then it went down to 70kph.
Then half of it went to 60 and 70 kph.
Now it's all down to 60 kph.

It's ridiculous, and even though we had a copper living next door, he didn't even know until I told him....the speed has been lowered to 60!

No warning, just bam, overnight....and yes, it's a up and down hill road, too hard to keep a steady number with the k's, plus, it's not a built up area, so why 60kph?

Yeah, I wonder