Hammered a Lot Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 might have come from the limo lot. Makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 might have come from the limo lot. Makes sense. Care to explain...? Or am I the only person who doesn't know what you're talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Care to explain...? Or am I the only person who doesn't know what you're talking about? Rich folks with money to burn making whoopie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike32282 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 The limo lot? You mean the lot that used to be for the fans to park in, until they decided all the lots next to the stadium are for VIPs and limos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyVanMiller Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Care to explain...? Or am I the only person who doesn't know what you're talking about? NYSEG said that it was a bunch of mylar helium balloons that sparked the transformer knocking out power at the game yesterday. A few limo drivers waiting in the designated lot reported to the police that they saw the balloons fly onto the wires and then saw the sparks fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 NYSEG said that it was a bunch of mylar helium balloons that sparked the transformer knocking out power at the game yesterday. A few limo drivers waiting in the designated lot reported to the police that they saw the balloons fly onto the wires and then saw the sparks fly. Oh... I was thinking something like, "Every home game, the limo drivers release a boquet of balloons to celebrate something or other, so of course the balloons came from there!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tomcat Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Working in the insurance business, the first thing I thought of was when they find out who's balloons they are, they will probably get sued. Hopefully the vendors inside are insured with business interruption coverage. This would be an interesting case study. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan in San Diego Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Working in the insurance business, the first thing I thought of was when they find out who's balloons they are, they will probably get sued. Hopefully the vendors inside are insured with business interruption coverage. This would be an interesting case study. Ummm , how about covering the damn transformers to start with. They didn't take reasonable care to prevent the problem. We should sue RWS for the outage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I heard the problem was caused by 99 luftballoons clearly, the germans were involved...i think they wanted to turn out the lights in the stadium then nab Igor Olshanksy without anybody seeing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsWest Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I heard that it was the Chargers that did it so they could sleep in. Nice Pitts/Cinci game we were stuck with! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammered a Lot Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 The limo lot? You mean the lot that used to be for the fans to park in, until they decided all the lots next to the stadium are for VIPs and limos? That lot. Channel 4 stated that a limo driver might have released the ballons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 NYSEG said that it was a bunch of mylar helium balloons that sparked the transformer knocking out power at the game yesterday. A few limo drivers waiting in the designated lot reported to the police that they saw the balloons fly onto the wires and then saw the sparks fly. Funny thing is they're trying to outlaw mylar balloons here in CA for just that very reason. I thought is was a dumb law. Now, not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomer860 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 This a case for Homeland Security. I mean an NFL footbal game is nothing sacred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Funny thing is they're trying to outlaw mylar balloons here in CA for just that very reason. I thought is was a dumb law. Now, not so much. Seriously??? Once you outlaw mylar balloons, only outlaws will have mylar balloons! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Seriously??? Once you outlaw mylar balloons, only outlaws will have mylar balloons! Yes I'm serious. Only in California. Power companies say the innocent looking balloons are also great conductors of electricity. If the balloons float into power lines they can cause outages. Thanks a lot Buffalo. Now this guy can point to this incident and a reason to pass this bill. Seeing they were playing the Chargers this game was televised here locally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayFinkle Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 What kind of douche tailgates with mylar balloons? I hope they were Charger fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevewin Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Once you outlaw mylar balloons, only outlaws will have mylar balloons! That's fuggin funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In-A-Gadda-Levitre Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Ummm , how about covering the damn transformers to start with. They didn't take reasonable care to prevent the problem. We should sue New York State Electric & Gas for the outage. fixed It also had nothing whatsoever to do with RWS, other than blaming them in hindsight for not having adequate backup generators, which I'm guessing will come up in the future. The transformers and wiring leading up to the "service entrance" of the stadium is 100% within the responsibility of the utility. Also, covering the transformer has nothing to do with the outage. NYSEG didn't say much besides "mylar balloons got tangled up in the wires", but that infers that wiring shorted out, blowing up the transformers. Is there something that could have prevented that? Not sure, but covering anything doesn't factor in to it. If you wanna blame someone, rag on CBS, as it appears they had no clue what they were doing during all this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjohns85 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 i was so angry that i had to miss a good majority of the game due to this atleast the bills won so i wasnt angry very long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stussy109 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I saw the whole thing happen. i was waiting to get in the stadium scoreboard endzone side. i saw the balloons flying, about two of them. they flew into the wires, didn't look like it was directly into the transformer (but near it), then BOOM, with some brown smoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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