Easton Man’s Hot Air Balloon Crashes Into Cars on Interstate 78

Hobbies are important. I have a few, but I think could benefit from a proper hobby, like gardening or ice cream making or whittling or performance art with frying pans or comic books.

Hot air ballooning, besides probably being terribly expensive, seems like a bit too much work. Well, that and the fact that you’re like, up in the air.

A hot air balloon basket dropped into the westbound lanes of Interstate 78, hitting three vehicles Wednesday afternoon near the Lehigh-Northampton County border.

Richard Bryant of Easton had the basket strapped into the bed of his pickup truck when it fell into traffic at 3:22 p.m., according to state police.

The basket bounced off one car, flew into the air and shattered the window on a passenger van, police said. The basket then smashed the hood of an Allentown woman’s car, according to police. The driver of the van, Warren Nelson of Kutztown, was hurt by broken glass, police said, but refused medical treatment. SOURCE: The Morning Call

That has to be the point in your commute when you just give up.

Also, this was the ad in the article. No, thanks!