The following poster caught my attention today at a local Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) train station:-
With my curiosity piqued, I decided to delve deeper and found the following report by South China Morning Post published on 1 March 1996:-
As reported by John Flint and Michelle Chin, a runaway helium-filled foil balloon had floated into a tunnel in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, "tripped an electric current and burned through an overhead cable". As a result of the incident, train services between Admiralty and Quarry Bay were disrupted for 1.5 hours.
In view of this, members of the public who commute by trains could do well to intercept runaway balloons or alert the train authority of any such rogue balloons on the loose.
And, that poster makes sense. Better safe than sorry.
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