phone conversation overheard:

[low_delta]

"We gotta paint a target on the ground!... We can't just throw pumpkins out of an airplane without a target!"

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That reminds me...

[banana.livejournal.com]

I used to know a bloke who did some ground crew work for a Lancaster bomber from WW2, one of the last still flying. They would hire it out for all sorts of things. One time they were hired by Led Zeppelin to fly over Knebworth (an outdoor concert place) and drop orange ping pong balls on the crowd during the show.
No, I don't know why.
My friend was taken along to help tip the balls out, but after flying around various parts of England, they couldn't find the concert, and had to go home with thousands of little orange balls still in their boxes.

Re: That reminds me...

[postel.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't that really /hurt/, dropping pingpong balls from a plane on a crowd? Unless they were those hollow wiffle-ball types, but still.. sounds like a lawsuit in the making. Probably a good thing that they never found the concert, all in all..

Re: That reminds me...

[banana.livejournal.com]

Imagine the number of people, now nearing middle age, still telling stories about the Great Led Zep Ping Pong Disaster.

> Yeah, man I was there, and there were people with small bruises and everything. From all around you could hear the injured voices crying over and over again: 'ouch'.

8-)

That reminds me...

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

of that episode of WKRP in Cincinnati where Mr. Carlson gets the idea to let turkeys fly from an airplane, as a Thanksgiving day promotional stunt.

"Oh the humanity!"

and

"With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

Re: That reminds me...

[banana.livejournal.com]

For once, and even being a vegetarian: LOL.