Chinese Flying Lanterns get official approval!

[Kyelo]

from the fine guide.

"No animals (except registered guide dogs), sound systems, generators, sky lanterns or kites, unauthorised fireworks, or wax flares, large fires or burning of plastic will be allowed on site".

Save your money and leave the things at home.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Bugger I was going to buy loads, attach them by parra cord and see if I could get very high at Glasto without taking anything..... Oh and take a picture.

Guess I will have to use balloons.... Lots and lots of balloons....

[rabid]

Yeah that's true and there are plenty of story's in the uk of houses, cars, hedges, fields and gardens being set on fire. So tents would be high on the list at festivals.

So do you Ban them all? Well they are banned at Glastonbury and many other festivals so the key issue is there safe use. If people decide to let them off near the sea, in the middle of a city, in unrealistic conditions (efest's has a wind limit set) then trouble might be caused. However each year we also let off thousands of tonnes of fireworks and they are not banned.....

Me personally like the look of them..... In south east Asia... In fact when I was in Thai land it was like a mass of glowing bee's rising up in the air. Quite trippy.

[r0cky]

from the fine guide.

[cejx]

Add drugs, glass and knives to that...oh wait!

[r0cky]

I like those lanterns, but have seen a couple of them go wrong with nasty consequences. Both whilst watching Stevie Wonder last year actually. I saw one get launched, only to get wrapped round someones flagpole, causing them to panic and shake the flagpole, sending miniature fireballs everywhere, and I saw another one take off, but it didn't have enough oomph to get any height, and dive-bombed into the crowd. I like the lanterns, but would prefer it if people saved them for the Stone Circle, and not set them off in front of massive crowds!

[tilt]

Someone let one off in Dairy in 2008, didn't let it get hot enough so instead of floating upwards it just blew along, straight in to my tent. Fortunately I managed to grab it before it did any damage, but as long as there are idiots about I just don't think they're a great idea.

[**claire**]

I like those lanterns, but have seen a couple of them go wrong with nasty consequences. Both whilst watching Stevie Wonder last year actually. I saw one get launched, only to get wrapped round someones flagpole, causing them to panic and shake the flagpole, sending miniature fireballs everywhere, and I saw another one take off, but it didn't have enough oomph to get any height, and dive-bombed into the crowd. I like the lanterns, but would prefer it if people saved them for the Stone Circle, and not set them off in front of massive crowds!

[guypjfreak]

i thought those balloon throwers are a really bad idea can just see so idiots using them for something else .......need i say more

[TwistedReligion]

Whenever this topic comes up I have to ask have any tents actually been burnt down? (serious question)

[rabid]

Whenever this topic comes up I have to ask have any tents actually been burnt down? (serious question)

[grumpyhack]

I love seeing the lanterns floating above the fest but I'm afraid I think they're a no-no. Yes the vast majority might be sensible but it only takes one twat to set fire to a tent with one. Sorry to sound like a killjoy but better safe than sorry.

[freeak]

They really should not be let off in crowds, have seen them hit and wrap round peoples faces during stevie, then chucked off in a panic and crashing into someone else!

[bumpy_capers]

They really should not be let off in crowds, have seen them hit and wrap round peoples faces during stevie, then chucked off in a panic and crashing into someone else!

[autoinflate]

I would have thought you could make something that worked entirely out of paper and card.

However what worries me more is a big field of tents, camped very close to one another, having a lump of flaming wax landing randomly on it.

I suspect the reason we don't hear about accidents in South East Asia is that it's a long way away and they're "only" poor people.

[camperman]

Saw a large one last year about 6ft by 3ft then i realised it was someone well drugged up zipped up in a pop up tent having a barbie, he must have been quite HIGH

Edited June 18, 2011 by camperman

[AnnaGrant]

They look great, but please, please don't let off any at the festival.

Chinese lanterns + flammable tents is a recipe for disaster.

[Monorail]

It's people setting them off in the crowd that particularly worries me. I watched a couple of the main stage headliners last year and had to dodge several low flying lanterns that clearly weren't hot enough.