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Originally posted by trapper189:
The real question is: Why do these balloons wind up on your property? Maybe someone is trying to send you as message.

I believe the message is "my child has a birthday and I'm irresponsibly buying mylar balloons filled with helium and handing them out to children to celebrate the occasion by littering."

A former work acquaintance of mine who was an account manager for the electric utility in SoCal had the major refineries as his customer base.

A Mylar balloon lands in the 64kV (or was it 112kv?) switchyard, causes a short and the refinery loses power. Apparently unexpected shutdowns cause several million dollars worth of disruption and lose of product. Yikes.