A 200 ft blimp trailing a 2 mile tether cable is loose in Pennsylvania.

[Stinky The Clown]

It broke loose for the Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Maryland. Causing havoc on the ground right now.

MSNBC covering it live.

[A HERETIC I AM]

1. Is the media in a panic because a little kid MIGHT be inside?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax

[bullwinkle428]

7. JESUS!! The very first reply in the thread steals my joke!

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. Sorry.

GMTA, eh?

[Stinky The Clown]

2. 24,000 currently without power due to the dragging tether cable.

[NightWatcher]

3. If it were over South Georgia, some redneck would've shot it down already.

[Herman4747]

8. LOL!!

[malthaussen]

12. You don't know Pennsyltucky very well, do ya?

Plenty of rednecks in this state.

-- Mal

[Electric Monk]

4. Call 911 If You See This Huge-Ass Blimp on the Loose Today

Here’s a metaphor: a remote-controlled, tremendously expensive, basically useless JLENS aerial surveillance blimp has detached from its tether at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. If you see it, call the authorities. Do NOT try to get it down yourself.

The $2.7 billion blimp program was the subject of a recent, withering profile in the Los Angeles Times that described as the quintessential runaway Pentagon project:

Seventeen years after its birth, JLENS is a stark example of what defense specialists call a “zombie” program: costly, ineffectual and seemingly impossible to kill.

Instead of detecting things like cruise missiles and terrorists, the sensor-laden airship basically doesn’t do anything except burn tax dollars and look sort of cool floating in the air.

more
http://gawker.com/gigantic-unmanned-military-blimp-on-the-loose-outside-b-1739217483

[lpbk2713]

24. Yet another DoD inspired program turns out to be a menace to the public.

They no doubt have a whole team of spin meisters working on
what they think might be the most plausible alibi for this.

[Laffy Kat]

5. Raytheon is in trouble. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. Hoping to cash in on the insurance policy for the blimp?

That might turn around their finances.

[Laffy Kat]

13. LOL. Look, if I end up filing a claim...

They have way bigger problems since I'm in Colorado.

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. This is a clue something is happening

https://mobile.twitter.com/AndyMehalshick/status/659448818241548288

[NightWatcher]

11. Another blimp is being launched to get the missing blimp

[Laffy Kat]

14. DUZY.

[n2doc]

15. I thought Christie was in Boulder today…n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Did it get kicked out of the Acela Quiet Car?

n/t

[riversedge]

17. good photo and it rolls over the PA hills--and powrer lines....

Betty Retweeted
Ian Duncan ‏@iduncan 44m44 minutes ago

Woman saw #JLENS balloon and snapped this pic said its cable is trailing through power lines. Her electric is out

[riversedge]

18. UPDATE: PA State Police says #JLENS landed at 3:40 p.m. in PA. No injuries reported.

AS I post this Brian Williams is going on and on--not reported.

DVIDS AssignmentDesk ‏@DVIDS_Desk 5m5 minutes ago

UPDATE: PA State Police says #JLENS landed at 3:40 p.m. in PA. No injuries reported.

[sarisataka]

19. So the blimp

went limp?

[malaise]

22. Landed - asd in crashed

in two parts

[underpants]

20. I would have guessed that Limbaugh would be playing golf

[KamaAina]

21. They found it!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027295830

[nilram]

25. I knew it would blow over.

[madinmaryland]

23. Obama is using it to take everyone's guns. Overheard that.