They heat up the balloon so it just floats a little over the ground and then drag it by hand to a better parking spot to deflate and load in the trailer.

Came here hoping to see this exact comment. The internet didn't disappoint.

Who's gonna ticket me, you?

"You landed in my yard, so now you're all my property. Sorry, I don't make the rules!"

Nice parking job rita!

No, nothing like that. I got a really good story and video out of it, which is enough for me. :) I’m really glad he was able to set it down without anyone being hurt.

Came here to ask this. Growing up we'd have hot air balloons land in our neighborhood pretty frequently, they'd usually have a bottle of wine to hand out.

Like in games, when a rare chance occurrence happens like this, and you talk to the pilot and he gives you a rare item (untradeable, of course)

Finders Keepers Losers Weepers.

He said the winds died down, and he didn’t have enough fuel to keep it up any longer, so he had to set it down. The gondola being lopsided was only once everyone had gotten out and the pilot was the only one in there. It was a big basket too. There were 13 people on board (including the pilot).

Security guards see some shit. You wouldn't think so; odd shifts, (most) people's aversion to guarded places they're not supposed to be, no expectation of anything but boredom, but nope.

You get a call to check on a flickering light and and you're like ugh! You're seriously gonna make me do stuff I'm being paid to do, right as I was near the end of the season finale of ______. So you roll your eyes and make a bunch of noises as you get up. It's cool though, your show only has 10 minutes left and there's 45 left in the shift. You'll meander on down check it out, and think about where the show is going, then bam, you've got some cereal at home calling your name. But it turns out that "flickering light" is a tweaker walking an alligator and shooting off Roman candles... Please be off property, please. But you know it's not and you've got some overtime in front of you while you give a statement to police and get them footage. All while your phone is blowing up with people asking you what's going on.

In my 4-6 months as a security guard I've seen; an angry wife smash a guy's car, a tornado in the distance, a flood in the building, a machine deciding to blow all hoses at once and creating a chem spill nightmare, a massively drunk dude trying to get in for his shift who was off for months for workman's comp, a pair of off shift workers having sex in a filthy room that's almost guaranteed to give you cancer THAT day, and a guy so ridiculously high that he locked himself in his machine (which would literally be torture if he weren't being paid adequately for) as he slowly ate away at a giant part using a spot blast gun as some kind of protest? The part is bigger than a car door and made of thick steel. Basically he got one $600 part scrapped for the loss of a $30/hr job, and a court case for narcotics. And he couldn't even remember the point of his "protest".

And that doesn't include the two years I was a bouncer.

It's kinda like my house. I like to call it "front loading the house" you stick the garage out a lot and put most rooms behind it so your living space is more private from the street. There's an extra buffer layer between you and whatever is happening on the street. The house can still be very big, but it's sort of tucked away.

Ok you've got to elaborate on the bear suit insurance fraud

Yep, that’s me. :)

They rolled it up into a big bag, then loaded it onto a trailer. Here, I got a photo. :)

Edit: s/folded/rolled/

Lol, we definitely both wanted to. :)

No but I'd have been very excited if I saw it!

One of the neighbors caught the approach. You can’t see the landing, but you can see them coming in.

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/hot-air-balloon-makes-emergency-landing-in-temecula-backyard/