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Old 26th March 2012 | 15:24
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Balloon on a wire

Just up the road from me in Northants, Mary. Pretty scary stuff. Reminds me of a former fellow glider pilot who ended up suspended from the wires he hadn't spotted on the approach to a field landing a few years ago. The emergency services had him out of his SF27 and on the ground within the hour and he and his retrieve crew then retired to a Little Chef cafe a few hundred yards away. The staff, obviously noting his shaken state, invited him to sit down and calm down, but then lamented "we'd offer you a cup of tea, luv, but I'm afraid the power's gone off.......". Whether our hero chose to 'fess up or not is not recorded...
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