The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86
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- In September 1986, the city of Cleveland attempted to set a special record: the simultaneous launch of 1.5 million balloons. But fate intervened, and the result was both crazier and more tragic than anyone could have imagined. Read more: www.theatlantic.com/video/ind...
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Who other than Bubble head,,.. believe Chinko.
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sorrry i missed it. did it have balloons?
Hallo
Hiii
lol, reporter says they're not sure where the balloons went, but "at least they're not posing any threat to fish and wildlife." does she think the balloons just magically disappeared?
guess this is what they were told to say but if so they reporter was lying with a straight face.
MindYour Business she is a reporter reading a script. It could have been a male reporter. If you have nothing to add besides being a dumbass, don’t even comment.
It's beyond the environment
it seems to me the general way of thinking at the time they did this was just carelessness and ignorance. as mentioned by the comments above
@blazon1982 that ignorance is still the same, nothing has changed since.
Cleveland: 1.5 million balloons
Earth: Can you don't
Don’t you can
Slade Taylor it isn’t a btd joke
Slade Taylor yea it isn’t
@@guandrenit was, no other form of BTD can pop bloons of that scale
Lol
The classic line "Just because we can, doesn't mean we should" fits well here.
I love how the guy says, "It is a happening city, we are on the move, it's no longer the butt of jokes" and because of this, Cleveland became even more of a butt of jokes. The wife of one of the fishermen ended up suing the United Way of Cleveland and the company that organized the balloon release for $3.2 million, and later settled on undisclosed terms. The balloons also landed on someone's pasture and spooked a farmer's Arabian horses which led to the horses having permanent injuries. The farmer sued United Way of Cleveland as well for 100K in damages and settled on undisclosed terms.
The balloons even caused traffic collisions! Drivers swerved to avoid the slow-motion blizzards of the balloons or took their eyes off the road to gawk at the overhead spectacle. Motorists on the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway ran into fences and each other before the roadway was shut down. A bulldozer was actually needed to help clear away all the balloons!
You have more information than the video, thanks!
I was imagining it caused a lot of vehicle crashes
Wow it's just crazy how ppl put out events and not think them through. Cleveland is no longer a mistake aon the lake indeed. So sad
Do you ever once consider the lawsuits worse than the actual thing in question?
@@BKNeifert Without those lawsuits those stupid things would still happen.
*environment has left the chat.*
Oh come on
Lmao!!!!!!!! 😂
*pollution has kicked environment out of the chat*
More like *The environment has left the world*
@@Jack-jw2no Come on what?
They probably thought the balloons would end up in space.
they wouldn't be able to exit the atmosphere without popping or coming down
Abraham Doucette keyword “thought”
@Wayne Bryan *BEGONE FLAT EARTHER*
With that many balloons in the air would that have been a cause for concern for planes flying in the air?
@@castlebravo1150 i mean they haven't
That "there is no mistake on the lake anymore, CLEVELAND!" made me chuckle
“There is no mistake on the lake anymore!”
*Created world record-breaking mistake*
2:32 "Our friends in LA think we're nuts."
They're not wrong.
Mimi and Sea Play rude
@@sergioperez3721 Who cares? 🤷
ClownMaster69 probably the guy that he/she was making fun of.
@@sergioperez3721 She's making fun of Cleveland. Saying that LA is right about them being nuts. Not so hard to understand.
ClownMaster69 ohhhh I see thx, still rude tho
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
😄😀😆
Cleveland's motto
Sums up Americans.
😂😂😂😂
Cakiema I mean, he’s being honest and is 100% correct.
The fact that an entire city thought this was a good idea is just astounding. would have never guessed those balloons would ever come down to earth. Incredibly unpredictable.
Did u just copy paste the 2 top comments on the video 💀
What a tool
The mob stupidity is beyond comprehension.
You can bet there would have been a few voices of concern but in true Simpsons fashion they would have been drowned out by the whipped up mob euphoria of doing something really dumb.
Coming from the city that thought that having beer sold at 10 cents a cup while stirring up the tribe after a bench clearing brawl broke out in Arlington, Texas was a good idea but, unfortunately caused one of the worst sports riots in American history and resulted in nine arrests, numerous injuries, the game being forfeited in favor of the Rangers, and the city's reputation being further flushed down the toilet.
We did a lot of very stupid things back then . ALOT of
Imagine being a pilot flying a jet plane at that very moment and a swarm of balloons are now in your way in the air because of Balloonfest '86!
Planes fly higher than those balloons.
Yeaa…Balloons can’t reach 36,000 feet in the air because of the pressure.
Or worse, a lot of balloons going into your jet engines and making them inoperable.
Imagine worrying about something that didn't even happen and being over dramatic about it because the video was so lame.
@@robambrose4199 lol
1986 was also the year of Chernobyl, the space shuttle challenger explosion and the year I was born. All disasters.
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1750: _Land Pollution_
1860: _Water Pollution_
1900: _Air Pollution_
1950: _Noise Pollution_
1986: _Balloon Pollution_
All in one
*ballootion
Also 1986: Nuclear pollution
@Viraan Well there's an optimistic view of the future. "The world and human race will end within 81 years."
I feel so bad for the animals 🙄
I'm an avid hiker, and I make it a point to carry a trash bag in my backpack wherever I go so that I can pick up trash on and around the trails I hike as I come back from wherever I was going. Balloons are by far the most often picked up trash items that I find. It's not even close. Thanks Cleveland.
Those are condoms
@@apt7prodLOLLL
Lies again? AIA Money USD SGD
Lol you hiking in Central Park? No where worth hiking will have balloon litter
Even more than cig butts? PS thanks for picking up trash.
This was a fundraiser for United Way but ended up costing them more than they got, plus two lawsuits, one for the fishermen and one for injured horses who got spooked. They actually thought that "the balloons would reach an altitude where they popped and disintegrated.".
Burke Lakefront Airport had to shut down as well as Cleveland Memorial Shoreway because of accidents.
Guinness did actually recognize it in 1988 but they took it out after that because of the huge negative impact it had and stopped accepting that type of world records.
Those horses did not have good lives ahead of them if they were falling to balloons.
this is like something you'd see on the Simpsons
this definitely is ha woe, especially early seasons
@@tylergatewood1652 exactly... i tend to only watch earlier seasons. i was a 90s kid
Megan Rust nice haha I was a late 90s kid. Last night I watched marge vs the monorail and I love Lisa and those have got to be a couple of my favorites. Fav of all time might be itchy scratchy and poochie show lol
@@tylergatewood1652 yep those are classic years 😄 "mono means one, and rail means rail. and that concludes our intensive six week course." 😂😂
Megan Rust HAHAHAHA absolutely loved Phil Hartman he did so much on the Simpsons
This was one of the most idiotic human events ever recorded.
Foreal
What a way to clean the world
That was sarcastic BTW
Didn't say it was the most idiotic.
Oh he's a comedian.
Only a person with an icon of a pepe wearing a make American great again hat could leave a comment this stupid.
My family and I lived in Hamilton, Ontario and in those days we would have had no idea about the balloon launch in Cleveland. We did see several balloons in the sky over our city but really thought nothing of it. We then heard on the local radio news that people were reporting seeing balloons, and it was mentioned about the balloons from the launch making their way to Canada.
It's funny how United States itself (or at least Ontario) didn't even knew the source of balloons.
Cleveland really seems very relevant, huh?
@@nakano15Ontario is in Canada not USA.
@@horsegirl2.012 Oops. My bad.
This is an example of what can be called "colective histeria", everyone got their hypes up and no one wants to be the party pooper for a whole town, everyone is influenced by the energy and happines.
Humanity: already struggling with trying to save the environment before it’s too late
Cleveland: B A L L O O N
Lol
This is decades ago. Before we found out we are all going to die in a flaming flood.
@GeorgiaWarBoy81 MURRRRRRRRRRRRRICA!
it's too late. we're fucked.
It blows my mind that non-biodegradable balloons an cigarette butts and fire works and stuff like that still isn't illegal. The technology must excist and the big tobacco companies and other industries have resources enough, a couple of new laws ans a few years later it would be reality
I never thought something as stupid as this kind of event happened.
watch Tangled XD
You underestimate the ability of people to be stupid.
OMG
Wow
Just
Wow
I'm speechless.
Dont worry the worst is yet to come. Humans. Ashamed to be one.
Well if it wasn't for stupid people this world would extremely boring.
"There is no mistake on the lake anymore" with this event ironically being the worst mistake the city has ever made, that is quite fitting to say. It's a shame because you could feel the community coming together for this so to turn into a disaster is so ironic but fittingly Cleveland. Though considering this is 1986 and happened a few months after Chernobyl, they probably figured it wasn't the worst thing to happen that year. But 5:46 isn't true. The 1988 copy of the Guinness Book of World Records DID recognize Balloonfest '86 as a world record. However, because of the effects of what the event caused, it no longer measures events that are harmful to the environment.
Also...the anchor at 0:38 does realize that winds are named from where they come, right? In other words, if you have a northerly wind, the balloons would move to the south. To move to the north, you need a southerly wind. So what happened was a southerly wind. And, at 5:49, does the reporter think the balloons that landed on the lake just evaporated? Smh
So many questions 😂wish I could yell at them all lol
6:09 the best part
the reason why it wasnt recognized by Guinness is because if they did, it would cause more places to start doing this. and the affects would be enormous.
2019: helium shortage and 5% of the ocean is plastic.
Cleveland: nothing to see here
Haven’t we only discovered 5% of the ocean
@@kenny9198 Satellites? Maybe you mean ocean floor.
Yeah I meant ocean floor sorry
Actually 90% of The plastic in the ocean comes from 10 rivers. And not 1 of them are in north or South America.
Elder Millennial 8 are from Asia and the other 2 are from Africa. North America is actually a rockstar of environmentalism as far as the oceans are concerned.
Imagine being a bird during that
No other birds would believe that bird
Because that bird died.
Uwu army😂😊!!!
that bird wouldn’t be alive
ayyy chu stan 😂😂
I was thinking the same! I wouldn't wanna be a bird caught up in that rush hour traffic
I kinda remember this. I was 4 when this happened. I remember my parents watching it on the news. Man, those really were the days when everyone wanted to get into the Guinness book. Such a strange, arbitrary thing.
“Cleveland it’s your time, we are on the move, no longer the butt of jokes!” 😂😅😂😅😂😂😂
The ending report is the best part..."We don't know where the balloons are, but at least they aren't hurting the environment, wherever they are!"
h8today Haha! I laughed at that as well. Good god.
they are "outside of the environment"
They "popped" into an alternate dimension.
We don't know where they've gone?
They sank, they sank in the lake obviously.
"It's been towed outside the environment."
“No one is quite sure where they went”
“But at least they’re no longer posing a threat to the fish and wildlife”
...
HUMANS = out of sight out of mind.
Yes soon humans will be out of sight.....
It's not like they ended up anywhere important or anything. Just Canada, no biggie.
i know man, what a stupid statement.
I'd be willing to bet a single turtle ate all of them and became immune to plastic. He is hunting us all down one by one.
@@Thumbsupurbum Canada is not a vast wasteland with a built in garbage disposal. How very Irresponsible and selfish!
I like how you can tell the exact moment the announcer is like "Wait, why did we do this?"
I was there as a kid. I remember the drive home on the shoreway afterwards being especially harrowing. thousands of balloons falling out of the sky, people driving like maniacs. No joke, they darkened the sky, there were so many.
"Majority of the ballons ended up in Canada"
*_Canada will remember this_*
@woongwanju OMFG
Canada is too friendly to hate us for that.
Yes, and Justin Trudeau whooped at least 300,000 of those balloons up his arse. All that helium is why he sounds like Pinocchio when he speaks.
No more maple syrup for you aye
@@muskanb2346 reading that made me feel bad about something i didnt know even happened
Pollution 101
It was Cleveland in the 80's. What exactly were you expecting?
Don't forget all the wasted Helium
poor Helium...
Should’ve been Cleveland In The 90s(Yes I just made a Running In The 90s Joke)
They could’ve shot down the balloons.
it is like "lets release 1.5m plastic bags into the wild, just inflate them first"
Oh the 80s what a time to be alive
Ignorance was truly bliss back then
@@sarasays...850 most definitely lol..
“Our friends in LA think we’re nuts”
They were right.
Lmao 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂
I'm sure LA would never let them do something so stupid.
Your friends in LA are right
🤣🤣🤣
So this is what the turtles have been choking on.
I like turtles
@@chrismadison305 you are fake news
*VSCO GIRLS SLOWLY PUT THEIR METAL STRAWS AWAY*
@@chrismadison305 Chris Madison sounds like the name of a boomer
"There is no mistake on the lake anymore." Gotta love the irony of that statement.
I was two years old when this happened, I remember it well!
All that "hard work" only for the Guinness Book of World Records to say "Nah that ain't it chief".
Lol
The 1988 copy of The Guinness Book of World Records recognizes the event as a world record "largest ever mass balloon release", with 1,429,643 balloons launched.
@@mtext8599 YAY.
That sorta sums up the 80's. Reckless disregard for everything around you in the name of vanity
It sorta sums up the USA in the entirety of its history and still today.
Chris Johnson I think Instagram proves that’s still very much an issue today 😂
Not entirely, environmentalism became trendy as early as the 70s this was just American self indulgence and its certainly not restricted to the 80s...
@d d "do good elitist" ?? lmao
Reagantards
The intro started right as i opened cs source and the valve theme was so fitting
"There is no mistake on the lake anymore" is probably the funniest sentence in this whole video
Just substitute "Springfield" for "Cleveland" and you've got yourself a classic Simpsons episode.
Homer: 'WOO-HOO!'
Marge: 'Homer, what happens after all the balloons come down?'
Homer: 'D'OH!!!'
😅😭😅🤣🤣😭😅😅😅😅😂😂😂
@Steve Faure ..haha I love it. Very true. Too bad this actually happened, instead of cartoonists creating it. So many animal causalities. VERY unnecessary
Karen Carney and two human casualties.
Steve Faure omg yes🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭
I can't believe the reporter said " No one knows where they went, but they're not endangering the environment anymore" .... nobody went out and collected them! Where does she think they went??
Idk like they arent magic disappearing balloons
Of course they will endanger the environment and wildlife *somewhere* , but apparently it's out of sight, out of mind for her. 🤦♀️🤦♀️
My thoughts too
Aliens
@@dragonfairy22 sums up all boomers right? "If it ain't happening to me, it isn't my problem"
Even the most causal observer could tell you releasing one million balloons is not a good idea.
I need the Canadian perspective of seeing these balloons on the lake😂😂😂
"No one's quite sure where the balloons went"
In the turtle's stomach.
Let's hope so... turtles are the worst.
Juanita Stew If that’s how you think you should change your mindset
@@camerongilcrease5079 why should I change??? turtles are the ones who suck!!!
@@juanitastew2495 wtf
@@juanitastew2495 humanity is the worst wtf u mean
“The Majority of the Balloons ended up in Canada.”
The US aren’t being very good neighbours.
out of sight out of mind!
We're used to it.
@FitTallGayBlond ok, but lets deduct from the bill the amount of free national security that canada gets just by living next to the biggest kid on the global block.
@FitTallGayBlond i see your point, but its a bit more complex than that. Without america in the WW2, its not a sure bet that japan and germany would have been put back in their place, and they were quite brutal in taking what they wanted. After the war, i think it is a sure bet that stalin would have rolled over a destroyed europe like a steam roller, but american military power kept that from happening. Britain was too weak at that point to stop it. The powerful in america have done some dirty deeds for sure that must be noted, but america also kept the oceans open for free trade, thats a been a major gift to the world. America will always be loved and hated, as the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished. As for canada, a small population with a large chunk of the planet, someone would show up at some point with some big guns and try to take it. But no one will even try it since they know they would be fried extra crispy in minutes by the american military.
@FitTallGayBlond yes and then at some point america would have to swoop in and save britain, as always
Pollution was discovered 1987.
People in 1986:
Me: this can't be real
New reporters: you can't make this stuff up
"The majority of the balloons ended up in Canada."
How not to keep a friendly relationship with your neighbors, a guide by Cleveland.
As a canadian Cleveland does indeed piss me off...probably will never apologise and are probably still too bloody stupid to realise where they want to this day.
Im surprise with didnt just chop off that state and said. You can deal with them Canada 🤣🤣🤣 leave the rest out of it lol
Canadians don't care what they do in Cleveland. Same as most Americans.
@jack bauer Laugh and watch you all die from some form of stupidity
Cleveland- the city ISIS doesn't even want.
5:50 "But the balloons that covered the lake and caused concern on Saturday are no longer here... No one knows where they went, but at least they're not posing threat to fish and wildlife and their not littering the lake"
Environmentalism in the 1980's.
If I can't see it, it doesn't exist anymore, right?
Geezus. Out of sight, out of mind indeed.
Ahahaha that made me laugh.
Canadas like, "fuck you USA, they're all here!"
Unreal!
Also the framing of the camera didn't show much of the lake
Dang. I thought the end was just the beginning. Nice film!
"There's no threat to the wildlife" Cleveland will forever be made fun of. This is just another reason.
"They ended up in Canada" Thanks America, your gifts never stop.
The gift that keeps on giving...
just wait until we banish herr drumpf to the great white north - :)
they are legit shouting with excitement that they are destroying our planet
Like the gift of not having to pay for a military or being able to continue to speak english instead of Chinese and Russian. Because as one of them who was there, Canada was the staging point for an invasion.
Costa Rica the other.
Canada is like the UK. A strain on the US. Always ruining the price of steel, and keeping the now RF and PRC ahead in production to cost and causing the US at almost 90 percent of the NATO fund in which the UK and Canada require for survival to fall far far behind in tech especially aerospace tech.
This is not just a gift, its child support.
You're welcome. We're still waiting for compensation, those balloons weren't free.
They’re not littering the lake and no longer a threat to wildlife? Lady those ballons popped and probs ended up in thousands of fish stomachs
@@Hooper-DrivesTheBoat but it still probably injured the whole wildlife living in it, I wasn't worrying about humans eating plastic fish, I was worrying for the fish.
They also injured horses
I’m going to have to do it to you
More than one fish is still called fish
@spingus lmao the fish had plenty to eat in the lake so there never was an hunger issue to begin with but sure
@@samrobison6421 referring to multiple species of fish, it's "fishes". Fuck, I hate the word "fishes"
All of these balloons going up in the sky is the equivalent of playing mine sweeper with a flock of seagulls.
I didn’t see helium filled balloons until I came out to the west. When we were kids, we used to fill up the balloons ourselves by blowing into them , then rub it against our hair and the static made them cling to the walls. That was the game of fun in itself. Perhaps helium was not made for that reason.
“No one’s quite sure where they went, but at least they’re no longer posing a threat to fish and wildlife and they’re not littering the lake.”
*A strong example of “out of sight out of mind”*
All the balloons wind up in Canada they said!!!!!
@@marmarc4203 Same lake.
How on Earth can she say this? They floated away, still littering the lake and still killing wildlife. Unbelievable.
Mainstream media ladies and gentlemen. Since when they truly educate you without their own narration?
Nah, but in all seriousness... They never gave a fk.
Aight aight, I'm kidding. But since when did they take the audience serious?
Fine. Real talk.. for real this time...
Corporate media wants the best for you guys.
Cleveland littered all over Canada.
The fact that an entire city thought this was a good idea is just astounding.
Different time. Why bother if no one gives a fuq?
We learn with errors. Thats the most human thing xD
They think chili needs cinnamon. They're not exactly geniuses.
I mean, to be fair... it is cleveland
Permits and everything………
Rofl
"There is no more mistake on the lake!" the announcer triumphantly cried, as they were making the biggest mistake of their lives.
I was 16 when this disaster happened.
I lived in Lorain at the time, it covered the news and they were like, yeah we did it.
We are Sparta!!!
Honestly most people were pulling their hats down over their eyes and trying to walk by unnoticed.
This is why Cleveland is known as the mistake on the lake
Wendy's Twitter which is why it’s hilarious that that reporter says “we’re no longer the mistake on the lake. We’ve just released 1.5 million balloons!” Like wtf???
Don't take cheap shots
Tony G someone had to say it and you know it
Still in 2020!!
It's up up and away with their reputation
Broken the Guinness book of world records in the largest single intentional littering violation category.
Expo 86 in Vancouver also happened on that year. Way better than releasing 1.5 million balloons
Legend has it Mary Ellen's watch is still floating out there..
And it’s the REAL heart of the ocean.
why would anyone tie their watch to a ballon?
@@b.m.2738 - She wanted to see time fly.
@@americancitizen748 omg 😂
I've been worried about her watch too
Edited: because .....autocorrect
Canada: ah, just another day being eco friendl-
Cleveland: *Blows tons of plastic over*
Canada: That’s it ! We’re tired of your shit USA ! THIS IS WAR !!!
*Canada produces Justin Bieber and send it to the US*
Canada: We Have So Many Waste Hmmmm I Have a Solution
*Shipping Waste to 3rd World Countries
3rd World Countries: WTF!! Not Cool
Canada then apologizes.
@wizardmole it's worse in places like Russia, China, Mexico and the U.S
Evan Huang rubber
“Come on down to Cleveland Town, everyone! Home of a very chaotic world record!”
People were slow back then. So many people thought this was a great idea. Wow.
Scientists: Helium is a precious and non-renewable element that we need for important hospital equipment and we're running out of it fast
Cleveland:
Giddy LMAOO
Outside of stars and radioactive decay, there's really no way to make helium. Producing any significant amount of helium on earth would take millions of years.
So. Unless you happen to be one of those giant nuclear fusion reactors we call stars, you're not going to be making your own helium any time soon.
Nobody cares. Plus this was 30 years ago. All that helium migrated up to the upper reaches of the atmosphere and diffused out into space. I've worried about the depletion of all the helium, but fools don't understand and continue to use it for birthday balloons and fritter it away. Thousands of dollars in helium are lost each time an MRI machine needs to be quenched when some fool allows a ferrous material to get into the magnetic field and it flies into the machine.
The US government used to have a massive supply of helium, but sold it all off cheap in the 90's. From what I understand it can only be commercially sourced from certain caves and oil and gas fields.
But when the balloons pop the helium returns to the atmosphere. Correct?
No one in the 80's really seemed to consider the consequences of anything.
Michelle Muller that's how shoulder pads were made 😂
the 80s were rad
Jacob Zondag Touche.
I agree. And what were the Balloon artist for? Didn't they even think how much of a Waste this would be
You are correct
Honestly, I don’t think they knew that this would happen but you live and you learn
Whoever put this video together is goated
That was the most sophisticated form of a littering I have ever seen.
I would be so mad if my town did that. Imagine the friggin mess everywhere. Years of looking at balloons in trees and pulling them out of mower blades, fans, gears, pumps, and whatnot.
That's the funniest comment for the simplistic man 😂
Stewart the Sock yea how sad, it is litter. They didn't realize.
2:26 did he just say that by releasing 1.5 million balloons Cleveland would no longer be the butt of jokes because how tf does that work
wishful thinking.
Reporters being reporters. They say anything to fill airtime.
the irony tho
He's just an a-hole from LA.
They don't call it the mistake on the lake for nothing lmao
This disaster aside, what impresses me is that this is the most typical 80's stuff I've seen.
Legend says Mary is still waiting for her watch to return
Skrillz_ 14th legend says Mary’s dead
Borty Shorty I’m really sorry for your loss
She is at home being to this like this is very crazy
Borty Shorty F
You didn’t hear? It’s in Canada but Mary doesn’t have a passport
34 years later. "Why are our waters so polluted?"
Lake Erie in Ohio is considered by all fishing experts as the #1 lake for fishing. Apparently the fish don't mind a few balloons
@@nealmccormick8888 more like a ton
@@Rose-zo1oo fr
@Poop Poop fire?
@Poop Poop I didn’t even know that’s cool
The title of this video is amazing
That little bald dude flailing his arms around while counting down, is one of the most humorous things I've seen in a while. LMAO
They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
It was beautiful , it inspired children for life.
K K... I see what you did there.
What about the guy in the boat’s children?
Boat's children had nothing to do with this.
Everyone should just stay inside caves for some of you
K K Don't be stealing Dr Malcolm's line
That’s the most sophisticated form of littering I’ve ever seen.
starkravingnormal yeah, I really don’t know why he needed to sexually assault that elderly woman
starkravingnormal she probably enjoyed it 🤣
starkravingnormal she dead tho
starkravingnormal weirdly disturbing for sure.
Disney broke this balloon record 10 years later WTF
This is not a disaster. This is two people drowning, and it being blamed on balloons.
I agree, what are we never supposed to put any orange things near water now because they could theoretically be mistaken for floating humans? There is no possible way the event organizers could have foreseen that. And I find it hard to believe there was a mass extinction of aquatic wildlife because of these tiny shards of balloon either. Bunch of sheltered weirdos in these comments. I think the whole thing was kind of cool.
that was fun, I'm here after listening to the wondery "big flop" podcast episode.
Girl: Has three blisters
Reporter: "ArE Ya HaViN A gOoD tImE"
i read this as soon as he said that
Imperial Dankz bro same 😂
Wink if you are being held against your will little girl.
Turns out you can have blisters and still have a good time. Amazing, I know.
LOL
They were planning this for 6 MONTHS and no one raised their hand and said, "Hey, this is incredibly stupid, let's not do this"???
There's probably like a few people but they got denied by the "owner"
even they didn't tried to took this event into Guinness world record book 😂
@S P I wonder why you think today's population is smarter..
@@ArunKumar-dv8zw snart 😂😂😂
@@arcihungbycraneonfire Yeah, it was a funny typo. Lol.
The true definition of 'well not our problem'😂
LEGEND HAS IT THEY’RE STILL CLEANING UP BALLOONS
Two things are infinite: The universe and...
HUMAN STUPIDITY.
Never heard more true words
the universe and human stupidity* is the original quote
Human intelligence is a far cry from infinite. We're literally the known universe's very first beta test of higher intelligence. It's going to be another million or two years before intelligence really starts to shine.
...except that won't happen because intelligent people don't breed while stupid ones have unprotected sex at every opportunity.
@skyvoice Nah, I don't know everything... but I am an expert at forecasting the force of nature known as humanity.
@@Kragatar top kek
I love how much all of this must've went through and no one ever paid attention to the fact this was a terrible, high-pollution idea.
1986 buddy, no one cared about anything back then
So true
Simon WoodburyForget do you know what plastics do to the environment?
Imagine unironically being as much of a dumbass as Simon.
Henry Marckisotto maybe he doesnt know how dangerous plastic is
They were too busy worrying about if they could and not worried enough if they should.😂
I'm a third generation Clevelander who left for good in early 1986. So I was fortunate enough to be there when the river AND Mayor Ralph Perk's hair caught fire in 1969, but unfortunately I just missed this historic balloon event. My daughter once asked me why I had such a finely tuned sarcastic self depreciating sense of humor....and I just told her to Google Cleveland. She gets it now.
Spellcheck: deprecating, not depreciating......
@@repealthepatriotact Although deprecating might be the right word, depreciating isn't wrong in this context.
@@BlueSky-cy5nw Lol. What?? Absolutely not. There's no such phrase as self-depreciating.. Do you even know what depreciating means?
Whaaa? What the hell goes on in Cleveland?
Actually, it's called self defecating
The best part is that Guinness didn't even recognize the event.
😂😂😂😂😂
This should’ve been called trash fest. Did the oceans have enough plastic to choke the sea life?
@Teja illegible
Yes it is!
@@hazelwray4184 I could read it, maybe you’re just illiterate
Pollution on the next level
Z-Strike Animation' s and he’s bailing lmao
Marc Anthony you r so right shit that's a lot of balloons ✌
Maybe we need a biodegradable balloon?
Violent Kisses I think they were biodegradable
@MarcAntonio There was no such thing as pollution in '86 . .
fascinating!!
This is exactly the kind of thing I could imagine South Park doing in one of their Canada episodes. I can see Stephen Abootman, tired of being laughed at by other countries, organizing an event like this to show the world how Canada is a real country.
Before releasing the balloons Mr. Abootman would give a speech to the crowd like the guy in the interview, saying "Canada, it's your time. It's time to say 'yes.' It's time to say 'it is a happening country.' We are on the move. We are no longer the butt of jokes." The event would then trigger a border incident with most of the balloons ending up in Alaska and the US thinking they were more spy balloons.
The episode would eventually end with Canadians once again setting Mr. Abootman adrift on a piece of ice with his two assistants.
2019: I held my gum in my mouth for 5 hours because there wasn’t a trash can anywhere
1985: How many balloons we need to kill all the turtles ey lmao
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1999: swallow it
Just swallow gum, it doesn't do any bad (it doesn't get stuck) - even if you eat loads it's fine because in high amounts sugar free gum uses sweetners which act like laxatives (no effect if you eat half a pack in a day)
I think everyone missed your point, lol
So true
When will you be back in Cleveland?