??!! The Invasion Has Been Called Off
posted by on April 24 at 9:19 AM
Earlier this week, residents in Phoenix, AZ reported mysterious lights hovering in the sky. Was it aliens? And if so, were they the harmless aliens of Close Encounters, or the blast-happy E.T.s of Independence Day?
As it turns out, it was just a local idiot:
A Phoenix man says he caused the red light display that mystified thousands of people as it floated across the north Phoenix sky Monday night.The man, who did not want to be identified, said he used fishing line to attach road flares to helium-filled balloons, then lit the flares and launched them a minute apart from his back yard. He said he believed turbulence created by a passing jet caused the balloons to move around.
Lino Mailo said he saw his next-door neighbor launch the balloons.
“I saw the guy releasing the balloons with the flares on them,” Mailo said. “There is no doubt that they came from here.”
He added, “I don’t think it’s a cool prank because it can panic people.”
I think it was a damn cool prank.
Yeah, fuck pillow fights, this is way better.
Even if some idiot flipped out and killed his family over the idea of aliens invading, this would still be funny.
Somewhere, Jeff Foxworthy is updating his "You might be a redneck..." list.
Idiots everywhere.......
Is the guy also claiming responsibility for the Phoenix Lights flap ten years ago...?
Darwin Award!
Naw, elenchos, it's only a Darwin Award if he kills himself. But yes, I understand the context of that comment.
Dude, that's the definition of a cool prank. I mean HG Wells did it to the entire fucking country, and we regard him as a genius.
Road flares attached to uncontrollable balloons out over the desert? That sounds like a great idea. Building a bunch of campfires and then leaving them unattended is so much work...
@9 - I think that was Orson Welles, not HG Wells.
Predictable. Government is now planting a cover story after the truth was discovered.
Sorry, that's hilarious. The credulous deserve a good pranking.
@11 - It was Orson Welles adapting H.G. Wells.
Agree, pretty damn funny.
Balloons + road flares + flight paths, maybe not so much.
You say local idiot, I say local awesome idiot.
I like this prank.
Shit. Seriously, I've been thinking of how to pull this off for years, and this guy beat me to it. I was always stumped on how to get a "linear" wing-like shape-- never thought it would be that easy.
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