chinese lanterns - nuisance or novelty

[Matthew Arnold]

great wen they land on a dutch barn full of dry hay ,

 

A couple of years ago i was out lambing. There was a village about 2 miles away with a fete on. When it was dark i saw the lanterns going up. One of them came down onto a massive (600+ bale straw rick) and torched the lot. Because it was about 3 miles from the nearest road it wasnt reported as it went up very quickly and wasnt saveable. Still it kept me very warm that evening:thumbup:

[Charlieh]

I have just been outside there is a combine one field downwind from here, and about 80acres of straw in the swath, and there were two people lighting chinese lanterns, if it had made it about 150mtrs it would have either been in standing crop or going over straw. I sort of lost it at them, one of my mates had the vets out to shoot one of his cattle last week due to getting wired, these people tonight were telling me that their lanterns were animal safe, yet still had a wire frame.

 

 

Im fuming,