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Man Went Out for Pine Nuts & Ended up 200 Miles Away

#pinenuts#balloon#lostcontrol#upperstratosphere#rescuers
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0:00 thank you [Music] a man in Hong Kong lost control of his hydrogen balloon which he was using to harvest pine nuts so he's like floating up to get the pine nuts I get a hot air balloon like in a in a bunch of hydrogen balloons okay and then you ████ lost control and he kept going to space he kept going up going up and up and up and up and up that's stupid he ends up in the upper atmosphere team Team Rocket blasting off again stupid he just becomes a glimmer he becomes lucky Chan one yeah his buddy

0:51 who's working on the pine nuts with him he notices they're losing control and he ████ jumps off and lands to safety and then this cat is like well maybe I can bring it in still and then he just gets taken all the way up in the ████ utter upper Stratosphere oh my God he went ████ all the way up does he use that to pick peaches or something kindness I was taking I was putting away this bullet wound kit I don't know exactly right yeah the balloon was flying did it go you know how like when a balloon pops and it goes oh it went straight up because the hydrogen blew in it's not a birthday balloon it's very un theatrical rise yeah that's boring so but but it you said that it the like air was coming out when it was going up or it was just no it was it was

1:42 it couldn't pop one he just lost control he lost control so it just kept going oh it's supposed to weigh them down like somewhat yeah well the dude jumping out probably didn't help they just shot him up went 50 feet up immediately oh ████ good luck he killed him dude and he disappeared like no one appeared in the upper Stratosphere well what goes up must come down so so he did uh two days later he lands in a ████ Forest 300 miles away [Music] the the balloon slowly landed slowly it slowly lost um yeah slowly lost mass and returned to the earth I think he did he's like that guy

2:35 yeah it must be super freezing and his ears must hurt I'm glad it's good he landed on land and it wasn't like in like The Ocean song well he laid in the middle of a ████ Forest but at least he died though right he's alive it's like Jackie Chan yeah he's live because Rescuers his colleague like um obviously ████ him a little bit because he jumped off and they need to weigh that thing down but his call he told everybody like what happened and they actually were able to trace his mobile phone to where he was which is how they know he was an upper ████ stratosphere so yeah they said he was like he said I find my iPhone and he's like he's here like the dot is there but they don't know that he's up I know they're at the

3:25 spot they're like bro he's not here they're at Chinese Costco like it says right here and it's like on top of them but the scariest thing for Rescuers was they had to try to access his cell phone information without having him use his phone which they had him put in airplane mode as not to interfere with the eclipse oh I can really ████ with it can really really really seriously mode really ████ with hydrogen balloons you got to really take that airplane mode seriously create a dicey situation for The Rescuers because that's what caused the balloons to flare up if he turns it on that could be a real problem 5G is not meant to be a combo with this boy was low-key trying to murder him and he did he thought he got away with it and he comes back down he's like hey man I was pulling the right

4:16 how was it up there yeah like you must have been hungry hi I got all the pine nuts in my backpack oh man oh no I had a little pouch in my in my fanny pack it's like a dumb and dumber moment so this is a great way to market the surveillance Big Brother State you know so it's like hey you want privacy but if you have privacy there's no way we could have triangulated your location because you we wouldn't have known where you were but now we could save you because you know China wow how long was up there two days and he's a dead body in the forest no He's Alive they found him because he traced his cell phone signal but I just want to know how they survive like what like what did he say how it felt up there it's cold as ████ right it was no He's Alive God damn it okay he said I almost gave up thanks to Rescuers otherwise I wouldn't be alive because he landed in the middle of ████ nowhere

5:06 right so so it's not like he thought he was gonna land and he was gonna be Gucci right he thought he's like God damn I'm about to suffer even more they were just waiting for that balloon to go go down to like ah yeah they had him they had his back yeah so then he said he was cold he was hungry He was largely unharmed he only had minor injuries to his waist where he was tied to the tether to the balloon he um but the use this use using these balloons to harvest pine nuts is pretty common but also becoming common is incidents involving guys who are picking with these balloons who get carried away yeah some ████ Tom and Jerry ████ when they get carried away with him is there a picture of the balloon wait said you said Tethered to the balloon that means he's not in a basket he's just ████ has a harness he's he was somehow Tyler to balloon they don't say as usual it doesn't say exactly because if it's like a personal pen Pizza ████ balloon it's probably

5:56 not like a a nice looking basket why not and at what point did he just like rest and like chill like all right I'm just gonna be up here yeah yeah like connected to a balloon probably looks like a ████ beach chair that he like tied to a balloon honestly like like what are you talking about it's just panties so it looks like this so it looks like this a little one look at that just looking like a giant condom blown up oh so there's a little basket oh okay wow he was trying to debunk Steve's article with information great yeah with the truth okay A little personal hot air balloon up in the stratosphere like that's ████ crazy man do you guys know what a pine nut is yeah you make a pesto with it all right oh yeah can you please Google it's like

6:47 a little white ones it's like this big you know what a beetle mushrooms yeah but it's really bad for you yeah you make pesto with that every now and then I'm a Clapper Steve this is gonna get a streamy dude I don't think that we compete with

7:37 ourselves for the streaming they rejected our application for would you ████ your mom or your dad really they rejected it they were so thirsty I know they rejected her out of hand it was so promising that video how do you reject the classic I thought that was the one why would they I mean we're like we've been on YouTube for so long they don't ████ it's weird we're getting our respect hey we're gonna respect no it's not them it's us guys we gotta redefine ourselves and pine nuts a good start we're trying we're trying man we're God damn we're trying Mobility yeah so um in 2019 two men were picking pine cones in China's Chiang Bai mountains they lost control of their balloon drifted six miles before landing safely and my favorite part being arrested for breaking Aviation [Laughter]

8:28 can you imagine this ████ any kind of rescue that ends with click is so ████ hilarious job is picking pine cones yeah what is the use of a pint I don't know you get carried away and you're like Yeah well my life sucks already well I guess what's gonna happen what's gonna happen next oh God and like you're arrested for violating laws you pieces of ████ be more responsible you don't have a vertical passport and you know those guys doing the pine cone ████ they probably have to turn upside down and get shaken out before they leave because you say you better not be taking Paco's home they'll stay with us it's for all the Chinese uh summer camps [Music]

9:19 foreign [Music]

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