Interesting Find

[RickN]

Kind of like rice at weddings now has been moved to bird seed.

Personally I always like tossing rice at weddings. If the bride was preggers, puffed rice.

Seriously they need to make some kind of balloon that will dissolve quickly when wet. If you Google livestock choking on balloons you can find a bunch of info.

 

[-Pjackso]

Consider how many Walmart tumble-weeds (bags) are floating across fields.
"trashbag balloons" makes no difference.

Long ago I had a boss that paid $13k to have a vet perform surgery on his dog to remove all the stupid stuff it ate (plastic junk). I didn't say anything. His dog, his money, his choice.


If an animal is stupid enough to eat a plastic bag, then ...maybe... it should be culled anyways.

 

[Waltercat]

Just write the word 'Sustainable' on the balloon and it will pass the Tree Hugger environmental test.

 

[p238shooter]

Tree huggers are the ones that got paper bags for groceries banned many places. Just sayin.

 

[dennishoddy]

Those that live by the ocean sometimes find bottles with notes. I guess for some it's part of the healing process.

Why, yes they do! 2016 we did our first Alaska cruise.
Just South of Ketchikan, tossed a wine bottle with a card inside it into the ocean.
Almost two years later, got an email from a lady saying she had found the bottle a few miles up the Cambell River, British Columbia. Evidently tides had it make its way upstream. Got this pic from her.

Found a mylar balloon hanging from a bush while fishing Kaw Lake one day. It was from a childcare center in Wichita Ks. with a request to let them know where it was found. Took a few pics and sent them a note. Never heard back.
Back in the 80's found an old weather balloon at my uncle's ranch when working cattle. The module on it said if it were turned in, there would be a $25 reward. Called the number inside and found out it was pretty old. The reward program was no longer in existence, but it was cool finding it.

 

[red dirt shootist]

Wish I had a life like yours, all you do is eat and pick up hot chix. Ketchikan is a beautiful place isn't it, how'd you get there?

 

[TerryMiller]

Tree huggers are the ones that got paper bags for groceries banned many places. Just sayin.

And, now in Oregon, they are beginning to require paper bags again. It seems that they finally discovered that paper deteriorates faster than plastic. Also up there, when buying groceries, one is charged ten cents per bag, so lots of folks are taking in their own cloth reusable bags for their groceries.

 

[Bixby Sooner53]

And, now in Oregon, they are beginning to require paper bags again. It seems that they finally discovered that paper deteriorates faster than plastic. Also up there, when buying groceries, one is charged ten cents per bag, so lots of folks are taking in their own cloth reusable bags for their groceries.

So, are we talking pillowcases then?

 

[Bixby Sooner53]

On a serious note, I did find this obituary in San Antonio:

https://www.missionparks.com/obituaries/Salvador-Fernandez-4/#!/TributeWall

 

[forindooruseonly]

Actually I kind of grew up around strippers and clubs. You ever get told not to put money in your mouth as a little kid? There's a really good reason for that advice.

This, absolutely. I worked in a bank in my younger years and money is disgusting. This was before the current use of latex style gloves for anything non-medical, it was count and sort and immediately go wash your hands.

Back when Lawton had a number of strip clubs and massage parlors, some of those owners/managers were our clients....

That said, and back on topic, I'm sorry the girl lost her dad. Can't say I approve of regularly sending out flying litter, but a single ballon in memory of a loved one is pretty far down the dick move scale. Now sending hundreds of balloons for a gender reveal or some other gay **** is further up the scale and much less excusable...