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I expect you've all read about the poor horse that had to be pts after several weeks of suffering, due to eating wire from a chinese lantern.
In todays Farmers Guardian, there is an article on the ban of these things. If anyone has lost an animal, had it p m'd and the result being due to wire damage,please contact the following: email ar2he@btinternet.com or phone Helen Bower on 01636 813354.
Also there is a petition calling for a ban, on the Defra website.
 
Interesting.....

I have a mare that had colic surgery a couple of years ago and the cause was found to be a piece of wire, which I strongly suspect came from a chinese lantern. My mare was very very lucky. She was also 3 months pregnant at the time.
 
I kin hate the whole thing about them, litter, danger to property, danger to animals, and also the fact people seem either too thick or don't care about where they land or the dangers :mad:
 
They are sold as chinese lanterns. Thats the name thats on all the packets I see. What do you call a chinese lantern?
 
Well, tbh, I dont really care what they are called. The packaging says Chinese lanterns so no wonder there is confusion. I hate the stupid things. Wire or no wire versions, how people think its a good idea to release an airborne naked flame is beyond me.
 
Capriole said:
Well, tbh, I dont really care what they are called. The packaging says Chinese lanterns so no wonder there is confusion. I hate the stupid things. Wire or no wire versions, how people think its a good idea to release an airborne naked flame is beyond me.
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It baffles me too! I don't think the film Tangled helped either.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9ch3hCTSF...+Movie+Flynn+Ryder+Rapunzel+Lanterns+Boat.jpg

While I thought it was a great movie, I thought "I wonder how many people are going to copy"
 
mollymum said:
I expect you've all read about the poor horse that had to be pts after several weeks of suffering, due to eating wire from a chinese lantern.
In todays Farmers Guardian, there is an article on the ban of these things. If anyone has lost an animal, had it p m'd and the result being due to wire damage,please contact the following: email ar2he@btinternet.com or phone Helen Bower on 01636 813354.
Also there is a petition calling for a ban, on the Defra website.
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Can you give me a link for the petition on defra as I have looked but can't find it, thanks
 
Completely agree here. They are hugely popular at Glastonbury festival, which always strikes me are odd - setting fire to some paper object and sending it into the air for pot luck as to where it lands? (especially when Glastonbury is supposed to be environment loving hippies). Madness. One year, crowd of 70000 people, several lanterns set off in middle of the crowd which then blow into the trees and set the branches alight!
 
I found 7 of these lanterns in my fields one night as I did my final walk round. They were much bigger than I'd seen before and made of tougher material, most were caught up on the fences or hedges, but one was billowing and rolling around in the field my mare and foal were in. They were both terrified and dripping with sweat, luckily I caught it and neither were hurt. There was no wire in the lanterns, the frame was bamboo, which is just as dangerous, or even more so, as it splinters into needle sharp shards.

Let's try and get these bledy things banned.
 
i have only ever so far found one in my winter field, god knows how i found it, purely by chance, hate to think if there are more in there, having two babies it would be a disaster!
 
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