Glasgow Sky Lanterns
A couple of months ago i blogged about indonesia setting a world sky lantern record. http://www.wayupnorth.tv/2009/12/09/scottish-world-record/
I quipped “We certainly couldn’t fly sky lanterns the wind would have them in the clyde”.
And thats exactly what happened! Glasgow sky lantern enthusiasts, probably inspired by the Indonesian effort, have brought chaos to our coast guards.
The wind carries the lanterns along the clyde and the coast guards mistake them for distress flares. Heres the scary part, It costs £6,000 an hour to send out a rescue helicopter! So far its happened four times and a fuck load of money has been wasted.
How can we fix this? Does anyone have any ideas how to stop this mayhem?
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Yeh train the morons to tel the difference between a floating candle and a signal flare.
I have used flares in the Army and I cant see how they can look like lanterns, I guess from a really far distance maybe but come on FFS
good point david, how can the coastguards keep making these expensive blunders?
never knew you were in the army by the way. go anywhere interesting?
Not really mate lol
It was a long time ago
Yeah it is pretty expensive.. i mean they cost like a tenner a pop!
I bought love heart ones to take with me to dubai for V-tines day
hope I dont get in trouble !!!