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Huge Moon Balloon Rolls Over Chinese Motorists

If you were sitting in traffic and didn’t know what was going on, this would probably make you crap your pants.

China’s Mid-Autumn Festival is a harvest holiday celebrated during the full moon. This year the moon was inconveniently obscured from view by Typhoon Meranti, leading some Chinese cities, like Fuzhou, to inflate enormous moon balloons (see at left) and put them on public display. Alas, Meranti’s wicked winds managed to break Fuzhou’s moon free from its tether, then this happened:

I was surprised at how calm the people on scooters looked!

http://www.core77.com/posts/56371/Huge-Moon-Balloon-Rolls-Over-Chinese-Motorists