UK Call To Ban Chinese Lanterns

Peers are calling on the Government to ban Chinese paper lanterns, because of a risk to cows, sheep and other livestock.

The House of Lords called for an end to their use following concerns expressed by the National Farmers' Union.

The large paper lanterns, each containing a candle and made of paper and a wire frame, are often released into the air to mark weddings, birthdays or other celebrations.

They can drift for several miles and land in rural fields.

Baroness Janet Fookes says the pretty decorations pose a danger to animals.

A cow died recently after eating a piece of a lantern's wire frame, which ruptured its stomach.

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Kind of strange that you can get a fine for littering but it's OK to sent off flaming metal stuff into somebody else's property.

Thought they would have already been banned...

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That would be great the lanterns should be banned due to............fire hazard and more importantly
The fact that any ufo sighting is automatically a lantern

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Get rid of the Chinese Lanterns and we will have a sudden rash of high altitude swamp gas.

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Actually I was thinking the amount of UFO sightings will drop by 99%.

See I can make stupid jokes too.



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