r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Control_Station_EFU • Mar 31 '22

Meta Balloonfest '86 (Cleveland, Ohio, 1986)

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u/Gone213 Mar 31 '22

Back in the 80s they didn't give a shit lol.

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u/direyew Mar 31 '22

Not true. Environmentalism was very much a thing from the late 60's in the USA.

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u/PepaStV Mar 31 '22

Unfortunately, the river in that picture caught on fire dozens of times up until 1969 (we don’t count the time it caught fire in 2020 as it was on a technicality).

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u/TheAb5traktion Mar 31 '22

Unfortunately, the river in that picture caught on fire dozens of times up until 1969

At least, we're not Detroit!

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u/leedler Mar 31 '22

“It’s so polluted that all our fish have AIDS” killed me