Given the fog, it kind of seems like there should have been more flashing lights from the emergency vehicles or at least road flares.

My wife and I tried talking about road flares around her phone, our need for more road flares, and questions about where we might find road flares....nothing, but I don't think she had the Facebook app open.

The 'you agreed to it' argument always makes me think of the human cent-I-pad episode of South park. Why can't they make it READ!?

Open carry is the straw that breaks the bouncers' backs? Um, no. It's not suddenly Blazing Saddles here. If you're licensed to carry, most have enough common sense NOT to carry openly in our bars because drunks are temporarily or permanently dumb. The bouncers still fear the nut-jobs with knives, brass knuckles, and ice picks tucked into their boot - it's not about the weapon, it's about the person holding it. Once the mentally challenged get into the parking lot, all bets are off and whatever can be used as a weapon often is. Bat, chain, antenna, canoe paddle, road flare etc.

Fucking horrifying.

All I can think watching this kind of thing is I wish someone could do something, but what? At most all I can imagine is someone going back a few hundred yards and throwing road flares into the road. That'll never happen. The only thing you can do is not drive so damned fast when you can't see what's in front of you. That also will never happen.

Unless there's a news report saying no one was killed, I'm afraid this does qualify as snuff because it doesn't seem possible that the car sandwiched between big-rigs was survivable.

I don't understand why people are so surprised that this worked. Some guys got together and tied road flares to high altitude balloons.

Don't get me wrong I'm not saying there isn't alien life but I can't really prove there IS either. But who thinks someone would tie a bunch of road flares to a balloon and launch them? There will always be two groups, one who thinks it's a prank and the other who thinks its UFOs. Both groups are looking for SOMETHING and will argue one way or the other.

It's like lighting a bush on fire, some people will see a miracle other people will just assume it's because it was very dry, and very hot.

All these two guys did is waste a lot of peoples time. Skeptics and Believers. Downvote from me.

Isn't tying a burning road flare to a helium balloon then launching it over a FOREST a touch dangerous? I mean, the Japanese sorta did this in World War 2 for the express purpose of burning down the entire pacific northwest.

>> ^ElJardinero:
>> ^jonny:
I'm feeling inspired to improve on this prank. Anyone have knowledge of pyrotechnics? I want to create a slow burning flare that doesn't look like a road flare. I'm thinking magnesium strips, but I guess I'll have to experiment.

Cattle mutilation and human lobotomy.

Ok - that's a bit more out of the box than I had in mind.

>> ^jonny:
I'm feeling inspired to improve on this prank. Anyone have knowledge of pyrotechnics? I want to create a slow burning flare that doesn't look like a road flare. I'm thinking magnesium strips, but I guess I'll have to experiment.


Cattle mutilation and human lobotomy.

GO!

Upvote for a clever prank and EDD's clever flattery. I recommend watching part 3, the reactions, as it demonstrates that not everyone is so easily fooled. The local authorities are repeatedly cited as (correctly) guessing that the lights are nothing more than flares attached to balloons. On the other hand, it's also fun to watch those with less critical thinking skills see what they want. The History Channel segment is really hilarious.

I'm feeling inspired to improve on this prank. Anyone have knowledge of pyrotechnics? I want to create a slow burning flare that doesn't look like a road flare. I'm thinking magnesium strips, but I guess I'll have to experiment.

He's no kinda man if he doesn't tie a road flare to his lawn sprinkler.

I suddenly have the urge to wedge a road flare into a giant black sphere and run around town.