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Old 3rd Nov 2008, 15:43
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GyroSteve
 
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Air rage

There have been a few cases where balloonists have been attacked on landing - sometimes assaulted by farmers, sometimes by the local populace (in the latter case usually with an eye to relieving the occupants of camcorders etc).

It never happened to me, but I did have one incident when I landed in a park and things got quite lively when it turned out that the "children" playing on the swings were, shall we say, older and more boisterous than I had anticipated. Fortunately the police turned up and the "youngsters" ran off and started chasing the police car ......

I had thought it would be OK because there were some old boys playing bowls on a green next to where I landed. Once I was on the ground I realised that the fence around the green wasn't chain-link it was razor wire!
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