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Encinitas helium balloon ban leads claims life of aged adventurer
Up House Down
Frederickson’s floating home, seen here moments before Encinitas’ POPPER-1 Enforcer biplane unleashed its twin BB guns and sent it hurtling to earth amid a hail of brightly colored rubber shards.
Last week, the Encinitas city council gave its unanimous approval to the city’s Environmental Commission’s proposal to ban the sale, use, or distribution of lighter-than-air balloons within city limits, including its airspace. “We need to be reducing plastics in every possible way,” said Mayor Catherine Blakespeare, who knew her administration would be responsible for enforcing the ordinance. “Our fragile environment can no longer indulge the whimsical flights of fancy that careless humanity inflicts on it, and that includes grumpy old men on romantic quests.” Blakespeare was referring to the late Mr. Carl Frederickson, a widower and balloon salesman whose mad plan to float to Paradise Falls in his longtime home via the lift provided by thousands of helium balloons unfortunately took him directly over the Southern California City. “What happened to Mr. Frederickson was a tragedy,” said Blakespeare in a statement. “But we have a duty to make sure that it isn’t our own paradise that falls, if you will.”
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Encinitas helium balloon ban leads claims life of aged adventurer
Up House Down
Encinitas helium balloon ban leads claims life of aged adventurer
Up House Down
Frederickson’s floating home, seen here moments before Encinitas’ POPPER-1 Enforcer biplane unleashed its twin BB guns and sent it hurtling to earth amid a hail of brightly colored rubber shards.
Last week, the Encinitas city council gave its unanimous approval to the city’s Environmental Commission’s proposal to ban the sale, use, or distribution of lighter-than-air balloons within city limits, including its airspace. “We need to be reducing plastics in every possible way,” said Mayor Catherine Blakespeare, who knew her administration would be responsible for enforcing the ordinance. “Our fragile environment can no longer indulge the whimsical flights of fancy that careless humanity inflicts on it, and that includes grumpy old men on romantic quests.” Blakespeare was referring to the late Mr. Carl Frederickson, a widower and balloon salesman whose mad plan to float to Paradise Falls in his longtime home via the lift provided by thousands of helium balloons unfortunately took him directly over the Southern California City. “What happened to Mr. Frederickson was a tragedy,” said Blakespeare in a statement. “But we have a duty to make sure that it isn’t our own paradise that falls, if you will.”
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