Omg, I am gobsmacked! Trigger warning - animal cruelty.

[Brigante9]

This company apparently thinks it’s a good idea to send up sky lanterns at this time to ‘support’ the NHS. I’ve seen damage to pets, horses, property and £70K worth of burnt up hay at a local farmer’s, horrible burns on a friend’s horse when the lantern landed on his rug and burnt all his back. I really think the fire brigade, NHS and other emergency services could do without people lighting a lantern and sending it god knows where right now!

Please feel free to email their complaints department (or not, if you think AIBU!) These things cause untold damage every year. I think this is very poor timing. I understand companies are struggling, but this is just irresponsible and does not support the NHS.

You are not unreasonable in the slightest. What utter halfwits

Absolutely disgraceful. Is this an ad or a Facebook event?

Oh I hate them. Friend lost a lovely foal a few years ago when one spooked him and he broke his leg.

Just awful things.

Advice from a fire service...

These bloody things should be banned anyway.
@QuestionableMouse that poor foal :(

Omg everyone knows they are bloody dangerous. Bloody morons

Bloody ridiculous, virtue signalling is bad enough but this is a proven danger to wildlife and animal life. YANBU OP, it is idiotic.

I thought these were banned already?

Ridiculous and so dangerous. Yanbu

I thought these were banned already?

I’ve just checked and can’t believe they’re not banned already. FFS, they’re so dangerous

@DuchessOfBeddington an advert. You can email their complaints department.

@SomethingOnce unbelievably, only in some UK counties. I’m amazed. A local farmer lost 70K of hay one year, just appalling.

I wish those were banned, they are dangerous and a bloody menace. People who are still sending these things up into the sky are morons.

This company also sell balloons shaped like doves, so when released by selfish idiots —to kill wildlife—, they look like a flock of doves. Cunts.

I saw this on Facebook earlier tonight, I've emailed them and commented on their advertising post. I was a bit blunt but not sweary, I wanted to be though.
It's absolutely disgraceful, dangerous and ridiculous that they think the this is ok.

I really want to know why they haven't been banned from sale yet.

I hate these things

I find them, and also the deflated foil helium balloons, in our local fields and woods a lot. They should be banned.

@MissHoskins brilliant!

There have been deflated helium balloons in trees for weeks on my route to work. Just horrible.

Anyone on Twitter? I think it’s a powerful place!

Have you got a link to their complaints department- I couldn’t find it in their website.
I note the fire brigade have asked people not to let these bloody things off.

I've emailed them a terse complaint. I hope enough people complain to make them change their minds

If you go into the 'contact us' page then select 'department' from the drop down box, you can select 'complaints'

I’ve seen these things set alight over a marina full of boats, many with people living in them. Of course the cold air over the water meant they didn’t rise as fast as expected. It was heart in mouth moment praying they rise high enough to not catch canopies on fire.
Nothing we could do but watch and hope. The idiots just won’t listen.

I thought they were banned already; they should be.

I found the complaints page and have sent an email , I copied a link from the Fire Service asking people not to use the lanterns and also said how distasteful it is to use a worldwide pandemic to market their products.