tebowlives
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Look at what those f&$ktards in Minnesota did.
1969 Snow game San Fran at Minnesota
"They were going to launch a hot air balloon on a 200-foot tether, take it up and with somebody in it, take it down the length of the field and pull it back down, but when the balloon didn't lift off the frozen Met Stadium field with Snyder's mom inside the basket, she jumped out and her 11-year-old son jumped in. it kept going up because the rope connected to it somehow failed.(some moron didn't attach it) He narrowly missed the scorching hot stadium lights
Not only was he flying into the path of the oncoming air traffic at MSP Airport, but he would disappear into the clouds. After a three-mile flight, Snyder was able to release some of the hot air, and the balloon quickly descended directly into the frigid and slush-filled waters of the Minnesota River. The basket tipped, catapulting Snyder into the river. Without his weight, the balloon then flew away unpiloted.
It was filled with slush, so I was swimming through slush," he said.
With his waterlogged snowmobile suit, boots and helmet, he would swim 25 yards to shore. To his good fortune, a photographer was in the area and soon snapped a photograph of stunned young boy climb onto the river bank. The man would bring Snyder back to Metropolitan Stadium, where Vikings team doctors checked him over and put his wet clothes in a dryer.
His folks finally spotted the balloon resting in a snow-covered farmer's field.
"My poor mom and dad wandered out into the field through the deep snow, only to get up to the balloon and I wasn't in it. They lost it at the time," Snyder said. With the help of CB radios, the panicked parents were soon told the good news: Their son Rick was alive and well in the Vikings locker room.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/n...ir-balloon-disaster-recounted-50-years-later/
1969 Snow game San Fran at Minnesota
"They were going to launch a hot air balloon on a 200-foot tether, take it up and with somebody in it, take it down the length of the field and pull it back down, but when the balloon didn't lift off the frozen Met Stadium field with Snyder's mom inside the basket, she jumped out and her 11-year-old son jumped in. it kept going up because the rope connected to it somehow failed.(some moron didn't attach it) He narrowly missed the scorching hot stadium lights
Not only was he flying into the path of the oncoming air traffic at MSP Airport, but he would disappear into the clouds. After a three-mile flight, Snyder was able to release some of the hot air, and the balloon quickly descended directly into the frigid and slush-filled waters of the Minnesota River. The basket tipped, catapulting Snyder into the river. Without his weight, the balloon then flew away unpiloted.
It was filled with slush, so I was swimming through slush," he said.
With his waterlogged snowmobile suit, boots and helmet, he would swim 25 yards to shore. To his good fortune, a photographer was in the area and soon snapped a photograph of stunned young boy climb onto the river bank. The man would bring Snyder back to Metropolitan Stadium, where Vikings team doctors checked him over and put his wet clothes in a dryer.
His folks finally spotted the balloon resting in a snow-covered farmer's field.
"My poor mom and dad wandered out into the field through the deep snow, only to get up to the balloon and I wasn't in it. They lost it at the time," Snyder said. With the help of CB radios, the panicked parents were soon told the good news: Their son Rick was alive and well in the Vikings locker room.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/n...ir-balloon-disaster-recounted-50-years-later/
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