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By: Loki
Date: 6/5/98 11:22:02 AM
# Replies: 33
Yesterday we hear about a ten-thousand dollar cash drop from a hot air balloon, staged in the parking lot of a theater not two exits up from our apartment. We were feeling peevish, so we stayed up all night and got there at 6 am. The drop was at 9 am. The three hours was really bad. There was a band. They were bad. Then there was Mimi, the Chesty Radio Intern with an accent, who kept egging the crowd on, and it was bad. I've had to resort to Hemmingwayish sentances. Donna, myself, and our friend Josh went. There was too much wind for a baloon. They used a cherry-picker instead, raised to about 500 ft. There were probably two to three thousand people there, if not more. There were lots and lots of people. Unemployed or students or just kooky, there were lots, and by the time the cash dropped, they felt mean. I felt mean. Josh got $4, and was in The Pit. We saw globs of money drop into The Pit and a guy grab it. We thought, oh, isn't he lucky. Then seventeen beefy guys tackled him, and we didn't think the person was that lucky any more. It was 9000 one dollar bills, and a thousand bucks worth of other denominations. People will do quite a bit for a buck. My faith in human nature took quite a blow. 300lb body-builder types shouldn't trample small framed women and kids for dollar bills. They did anyway. I was glad I wasn't in the pit. I got $7, and minor abrasions. Donna got $1, and was knocked around quite a bit. We split up to get more cash. This was bad. Then there was getting out of the parking lot, which was also very, very bad.
On the whole, 107.5, the radio station sponsoring this, sucks large tape-worm ridden masses of fresh, steaming fecal matter for this, and it should have been outlawed from the start as a violent and brutal blood sport. Next time we bring the three-man water baloon launcher, red paint, and tasers. Oh, and we start a betting pool for casualty figures a week in advance.
It was a memorable birthday.
Anyone hear anything else about this?
Response #1
By: Da Sissop
Date: 6/5/98 9:18:29 PM
News to me. Glad yall didn't get kilt.
Let me know when the next one is, and I'll be there with bags of feces. Just don't ask me where I got them, okay?
Response #2
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/6/98 12:58:52 PM
I look at it this way. If people are stupid enough to expect and want something for nothing, oh well. All it means is that they pretty much will...have another one.
I really WOULD like to go to the next one. Just to spedn the week before using the Canon copier to copy my own dollar bills, and throw those into the mix. With say Timothy Leary's picture in the middle, or maybe even Jerry Garcia. Someone that would really fuck with people. Ah! George Bush in a gallows! They still like his stupid fucking ass lot down there don't they?
Response #3
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 6/6/98 1:59:41 PM
Yeah, no one in Austin likes George Bush.
Response #4
By: rorschach
Date: 6/6/98 10:50:33 PM
yo! loki, i just realized you're just a couple more exits away from where I live.....cool....
Response #5
By: Jay
Date: 6/7/98 8:41:06 PM
For those just tuning in the Anderson Shopping Center has just been bombed with live turkeys...stay tuned to WKRP for more details...
Response #6
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/7/98 9:31:20 PM
Damn it Jay!
You made me fall off my chair again!
Response #7
By: Loki
Date: 6/11/98 4:18:08 AM
You know, I think that would really hurt if I actually got the reference. I'm glad that range of sitcoms is just barely out of my time frame. I hate turkeys.
Response #8
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 6/11/98 8:00:25 PM
The late, great WKRP in Cincinnati.
Oh, and I read in the paper today that somebody else is doing a $10,000 cash drop and blood-sport.
Response #9
By: rorschach
Date: 6/11/98 8:51:39 PM
ah but you missed Loni Andersen before the Great Reduction....
Response #10
By: XeonoeX
Date: 6/13/98 9:28:57 PM
Hey, who knew that turkey's couldn't fly?? News to me!
Response #11
By: Ralf
Date: 6/14/98 5:00:05 PM
Welcome, welcome XeonoeX!
I think the 'n' should be capitalized too.
Response #12
By: Da Sissop
Date: 6/14/98 6:19:35 PM
Howdy, X-man!
Response #13
By: Jay
Date: 6/20/98 8:56:26 AM
Did I see XUXA posted something up there?
Response #14
By: Zane T. Dark
Date: 6/24/98 7:14:14 AM
I'm collecting XUXA dolls...
Response #15
By: Ralf
Date: 6/24/98 5:02:44 PM
INFLATABLE Xuxa dolls...?
Response #16
By: Mycroft
Date: 6/27/98 2:34:04 PM
Are there other kinds?
Response #17
By: Loki
Date: 6/27/98 6:07:18 PM
Well, there's the beanie-baby (no meat) flavor, there's the beanie-baby with meat (extra spicy) flavor, and a couple others that are too stomach wrenching for me to divulge at this date. Oh, and there's also the "Magnetic Gak" filled variety, for those of you out there with piercings.
Response #18
By: Zane T. Dark
Date: 7/14/98 1:45:08 AM
I'm surprised there haven't been any Star Wars or...better yet...Small Soldiers Beanie Babies yet.
Response #19
By: Ralf
Date: 7/15/98 9:34:18 PM
How about an AIDS virus beanie baby?
Response #20
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 7/15/98 11:44:39 PM
They'd have to keep reissuing it because it mutates too quickly.
Response #21
By: rorschach
Date: 7/17/98 7:55:21 PM
How would you make it look like it is starving to death?
Response #22
By: Ralf
Date: 7/18/98 10:25:49 AM
Open a seam. Remove a few beans a day until desired level of flaccidity attained.
Response #23
By: Shadow Sprite
Date: 7/19/98 3:39:59 PM
I hate to burst your bubble - and possibly terrorize you - Zane, but there ARE Star Wars beanie babies out there... *shudder*
Response #24
By: Ralf
Date: 7/20/98 12:25:32 PM
I thought Jabba *was* a beannie baby.
Response #25
By: Ralf
Date: 7/21/98 5:49:27 PM
Even click "-5" and shrug?
That was one of those times, I bet.
Response #26
By: Zane T. Dark
Date: 8/1/98 11:22:08 PM
Shadow Sprite:
Huh? What?! Eeeeekkkk!
Star Wars Beanie Babies?!!! Jabba I can see, Yoda perhaps, but Darth, no way....same with a stormtrooper. Oh nevermind, I'm too depressed now...Life; don't talk to me about life.
Response #27
By: Shadow Sprite
Date: 8/3/98 8:32:31 PM
Actually, I think most of them are Ewoks. I could be wrong though, I tend to run away from anything "beanie" - unless it's those old-style bean-bag Ziggys - even if Tom Wilson's gotten too preachy lately.
Response #28
By: Ralf
Date: 8/4/98 3:35:10 PM
Preachy AND not very funny.
Or... was Ziggy ever meant to be funny?
Response #29
By: Jay
Date: 8/10/98 8:02:14 PM
No, but boy could he play guitar...
Response #30
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 8/10/98 11:44:58 PM
He sure played a mean pinball, too.
Response #31
By: sooz
Date: 10/9/98 10:05:49 AM
Just So You Know:
BRICK, N.J. - Forty-eight children and an adult suffered minor injuries when a balloon-popping contest for kids turned into a melee at a Wal-Mart store. About 200 children had gathered at the store Thursday evening for the promotional event, in which about 1,000 prize-filled balloons were dropped onto the floor, police Lt. Nils Bergquist said. "The kids started jumping around, then the parents started jumping in to get the balloons, not caring about stepping on kids," said Starla Weiss, who brought five kids to the event. "There was blood on the floor." Authorities were called to the store 10 minutes later. Store manager Joe Herron could not be reached for comment.
Response #32
By: grin
Date: 10/11/98 11:46:01 AM
sounds like good population control
Response #33
By: Da Sissop
Date: 10/13/98 6:17:33 PM
"Matters were further complicated when it was revealed that the kids were all employees of the Kathy Lee Gifford Sweat Shop out on a company picnic."