I think these should be banned

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Sorry if this has been posted already but this makes me so mad. I have never lit one myelf but they seem quite popular ATM. Is anyone wondering what happens to the metal frame when they see it float off across the countryside? Proved lethal for this poor baby. It was in my village too so I will be vigilantly checking my paddocks. :(
 
Cumberland News- Farming section a few weeks ago had an article on these. Quite a few farmers want them banned to due losing/distressing livestock, mostly cows I think. I think i agree with you.
 
I found on of these in my paddock the other day, with a tag on it saying "From the Society of Gays"...... My ponies werent at all bothered but I was a bit perturbed about it, especially with the wierd note on it!
 
Yep, we see them all the time here!

Someone told me I was being a stick in the mud, but when I explanied that it could cause serious damage to either my hay stack and/or horses, they then understood what the concern was....
 
Bloody things! I worked at Glastonbury festival this year and every night there were literally 100's and 100's of the damn things going up.This was despite it being clearly printed on the tickets that they were banned from the festival site. They were all going east on the wind, straight over neighbouring farm land. I just hope Eavis paid his neighbouring farmers good compensation.
 
Maybe things will change when they start being sent off in built up areas and cause fires in gardens/shed etc, until then I doubt there will be any legislation.

I do think they should be banned, its not just the wire, its the risk to buildings/crops form the fire that needs to be considered as well.
 
I posted last week about these bloody things :mad:, I can count about 8 in a 1.5 hour hack, one of them was in our fields :mad: and one is still in the cows field, shear stupid ignorance of *******s to everyone else I'm allright jack, apart from how dangerous they are it's the littering of the hedgrows and countryside I strongly object to, we have enough with the cans bottles crisp packets and fly tipping, without this craapp adding to it :mad:
 
Saw loads of these things over our land a few weeks ago and stayed out until last had passed over. Dread to think where they landed. So dangerous on so many levels.
 
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artysteph said:
http://www.newmarketjournal.co.uk/n...fter_chinese_lantern_lands_in_field_1_1664300

Sorry if this has been posted already but this makes me so mad. I have never lit one myelf but they seem quite popular ATM. Is anyone wondering what happens to the metal frame when they see it float off across the countryside? Proved lethal for this poor baby. It was in my village too so I will be vigilantly checking my paddocks. :(
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Do you know, I agree with you, but I hink it is like the baloon, this started happening with helium balloons years ago, no one ever thought of the impact when they came up wit the idea. I think that this was the case with the lanterns, no one ever expected them to be a 'problem' but they have become one.

But I was watching children in meed earlier and i saw a child setting a lantern alight for her grandfather and father who had both died of cancer within a couple of weeks of each other. It made me think of the horses and other animals that have died because of these lanterns, but I also thought how I would not want to deprive the little girl of something so symbyotic. I do not agree that they should be banned, but they should be designed with biodegradable 'animal friendly' products.


That way, both humans and animals can be ok :)
 
Thing is we have had problems here due to them spooking the horses as they blow across the fields. Our horses (TB broodmares and youngstock) are too frightened to get close enough for the wire to hurt them, it is their shape, movement and rustly noises that also can cause an awful accident. Plus a non wire frame would not stop the hay barn being burnt down if one went in there.
 
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