Toss the Graduation Caps, but Not the Metallic Balloons
What goes up often does much more than just come down. And it's not always pretty … or safe . Take metallic balloons, which largely because of gra...
What goes up often does much more than just come down. And it's not always pretty … or safe . Take metallic balloons, which largely because of graduations and Mother's Day, are seemingly everywhere in May and June, including the one place they should never be — the sky. Because when they come down, the balloons litter, endanger animals and, more perilously, lead to public safety threats and power outages when they float into power lines and electrical equipment. May and June, annually, are rife with this phenomenon, with 26% (100 in May and 110 in June) of Southern California Edison's 802 balloon-related outages last year, affecting 1.