Did anyone see a hot air balloon go down...

[Swimmer]

at the Lakeville Golf Club on a sunday morning playing with the same guys I always played with. You heard it first. Great sounds of rushing air being forced up into a balloon by the gas flame. Only problem was there was a huge rip in the side of the balloon. The sounds of rushing air was actually air was made by air escaping from inside the balloon through the huge rip. It hit some trees on one side of the fairway I was playing in, bounced onto the middle of the fairway if front of me, back up into the air, hitting trees more solidly on the other side of the fairway and crashing down for good one fairway over. A one ton van with a basket for transporting the balloon came racing across the golf course with the course owner in hot pursuit. Guy drove partly onto the putting green and everywhere else he wanted to to get to where the balloon came to a halt. There was quite a battle with the van driver and course owner. We all kept playing. The cops showed up, and squared things away, not before damages to the putting greens were assessed and agreements worked out to pay for those damages. It was the weirdest thing though watching it crash and those six people hanging on for dear life fifty feet away from me. Pilot did a great job, actually heroic, doing what he could to keep it aloft.