First they came for balloons and I said nothing because I wasn't four-years-old...
Laguna Beach, California is as beautiful as it gets. The one stretch of southern coastline that soars out of the Pacific, green and commanding, as opposed to the typical rolling and brown. It is famous for being the birthplace of Gotcha, home to world-class skimboarding and an art festival wherein volunteers dress up like paintings and stand very still.
Iconic.
Though, moving forward, celebrating any of these wonderful qualities, not to mention toddler birthday parties, with balloons will land a person outside the law for the city council, days ago, voted to ban the whimsical bits of floating joy.
This is the beginning,” Chad Nelsen, chief executive of Surfrider Foundation, stated before the elected officials put pen to paper, prohibiting balloons. “We’re chipping away at all these things we find and trying to clean up the ocean one item at a time.”
“Even the balloon advocates and balloon industry was not opposed to banning them on the beach,” Mayor Bob Whalen confidently declared, “There is going to be some impact on the local distribution of balloons, but as I say, people will still find places to buy balloons.”
The balloon industry, eh? Do you imagine it is more robust than the aforementioned surf one?
Also, do you think there will be incidents of civil balloon disobedience?
Also, do you think neighboring Laguna Nigel will pounce and try to court balloon lovers with open balloon laws?
Currently more questions than answers.
Get the sidewinder missiles out!
python’s history of ballooning…watched about 25 minutes…that’s a record. other episodes come in three sizes…
As we are discussing California, the only clear way to stop the balloon madness is with extraordinary measures.
While Capital Punishment does not seem to work as a deterrent to murder, surely it should work both on double parking and balloon incursions of the beach.
It is my understanding that this is being discussed as I write this. Any individual caught with a balloon on the beach will immediately be subject to execution by firing squad. There will be no trial nor concern for age. If a child is accompanied by an adult said adult will also be subject to immediate execution.
Executions will be public, performed at the stretch of beach where the offense occurred. Safe execution sites will be setup along the entire portion of Orange County Beach front.
Executions will be carried out by the arresting officer who will head his own teem. All police departments will have preplanned terms in place in order to carry out sentence within 1 hour of arrest of the offender(s.)
Dam. Wish I knew this. Always ended up fishing
“festival wherein volunteers dress up like paintings and stand very still.”
I so confused, I thinking your septic yank government was based in Washington?
Learn something new every day on bg!
What is it with yanks and the sudden hatred of balloons?
If you aren’t shooting them down your banning them all together.
Democrat “we had to shoot the balloon down in case it ruin the ocean “
Republican “ it’s landed in the ocean?”
Democrat “we had to ruin the ocean to stop the ballon doing it”
Latex balloons are biodegradable.
It takes 5 months to 5 years to decompose…
Rich people from Laguna don’t like to wait
no expectorating/
That’s nothing. Look what they are banning here – https://www.forbes.com/site… – this should give you content for days, being Slater’s home state and all. Maybe he and Gizz will hook up live happily ever after here in god’s waiting room.
infiltrated them at the ‘Bu’s 1st meeting…walked out early~
But surely you can tie balloons to baileys ladders though?? If not really going to destroy the vibe for Bells and Margies
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Popped
Balloons being reappropriated by sharks for use as condoms? So many questions.
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clowns rushing in…
Hast du etwas Zeit für mich?
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst du vielleicht grad an mich?
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Und, dass sowas von sowas kommt
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Reno’s finest. That album came out when I was at the mile high terror in Tahoe ramp contest in Tahoe City. Everybody was blasting it in their cars. 1985 I think.
there is something redeeming about Reno?
Cheap place for pro snowboarders to buy houses. There and Grass Valley.
that’s good news. had a buddy move to truckee and spent a fortune. loves it though.
Good cover.
When NENA’s hit came out it got a pass with me even though the Pop nature of the song did not gel with my Punk musical taste. The lyrics were what have it cred.
What’s old is new, and present.
It was about the threat of nuclear war with Russia from what I remember. Kind of relevant again thirty five years later unfortunately.
Nowhere near a threat. Russia is weak and much weaker now than a year ago. Putin is a fucking blowhard. Fuck ’em all. I’ll shoot every red motherfucker from here to Canada.
It was about balloons setting off global nuclear war that destroyed the human race. All wrapped up in an upbeat pop song.
Com’on be honest. You were also swayed by the hairy armpits.
So good. I still have the vinyl. Pity they went all shitty religious later.
drink more Meade…burp/
Gutten tag,
We won the war
Surfrider Foundation sucks.
why?
For taking a stand against kids balloons. 1 out of a thousand may float away but every kid likes a balloon. Virtue signaling tools taking away freedom of choice. That’s why.
Nearly 45-50 million balloons are sold in California each year, and according to the Ocean’s Conservancy’s annual International Coastal Cleanup, almost 300,000 balloons were found along the U.S. beaches.
Wonder who is doing the counting?
Inflating the numbers
During the summer we see hundreds of them from the Santa Cruz boardwalk on the water way out to sea where the coastal turbulent water folds up against the clear blue deep ocean water. You’ll see them from Monterey Bay up to north of Bodega. Sometimes there are fish under them.
pretending to be a small business, collect soft money, give it paralegals, then lawyers…file false torts and stall the Big Oil…Worked w/ Ed Masry of E. Brockavidge fame…WOrked Oil…never had a big-breasted secretary…and we’re way behind the Hollywood True Story…
coors, make it your’s. first one’s free! (fb:happysurfers)
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looking for the monkey bar…
they are like a nabisco oreo cookie filling: white when it’s covenient… black for the money. cookies? Amos makes great ones.
I tried to launch a balloon an hour ago. South winds lifted it to the heavens and discarded it with a gust over the estuary. I can’t get to it’s location because the wealthy people won’t give me a code to the bridge and my fear is that a Great White Shark will eat the colorful plastic and choke to death which will be enough provocation to privatize Padaro Lane as a Great White Sanctuary, thank you very much California Coastal Commission for designating the cove a Sanctuary for the apex predator.
All my fault in advance Otto.
Wasn’t your fault.
It was Barrelled. Barrelled, The Bombastic Bastard of Balloons as he likes to be called.
subliminal got a infield hit…pitcher threw at his head…luckily missed.
How about that college pitcher from Miss. State?
96mph fastball with right arm
92mph fastball with left arm.
dude, still cryin from the last h-wood hero movie ..burt reynolds…running back/
https://larrybrownsports.co…
did you comment?
south paws make more money than righties…non-sustain shit/
book-marked that site ’cause great non-surfin sports writing blogs are really waning. or is it waxxing? “there’s wso much confusion here. i can’t get no relief…” pitching…
I think the hype over the attraction of small children to balloons is a bit overinflated.
A good big cardboard box from their Pop, is able to stretch a child’s imagination to new exciting volumes.
Drop in some bubble wrap and look the fuck out. Heaven.
The sale of Balloons has been banned in many communities for good reason.
balloons blow, don’t let them go!!
https://balloonsblow.org/