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I was eating breakfast when I noticed some movement in the street outside the front of my house. It looked as if a person was bobbing up and down outside my garden, so I went to the window to get a better look. Outside was a metallic helium balloon.
I thought maybe someone dropped it so I went out to look. At first I couldn't see where the balloon had gone, but then I noticed it about 20 metres further down the street. It was tethered to a small weight, so it was bobbing along as the wind picked it up. There was nobody in sight and no indication of where it might have come from.
I took it in the house and gave it to my children. It says Happy Birthday.
Posted by MFreestone at August 10, 2006 08:44 AM