Nebraska being sued for abusing the environment

[Belldozer1]

This guy obviously hasn't been watching Husker football the last several years if he thinks Nebraska scores enough to impact the environment.


A man is suing Nebraska for releasing balloons at Husker football games

An Omaha man is not a fan of the traditional balloon releases at Huskers football games.



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By Arielle Aronson May 11, 2016 at 10:56a ET
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For at least the past five decades, the University of Nebraska has celebrated its football team's first score of the game with a mass balloon release. But now one Omaha man wants that practice to come to an end.



According to the Lincoln Journal Star, Randall Krause filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Tuesday alleging that the balloon release is a violation of the 1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which prohibits the open dumping of solid waste. Krause claims the balloons become solid waste once they leave the hands of fans. He alleged in the lawsuit that the balloons can travel hundreds or thousands of miles once they are released and become "a serious threat to wildlife through entanglement." Krause listed 60 endangered species in the lawsuit which could be harmed by the balloons.



The lawsuit asked the court for an injunction in order to stop the school from promoting the balloon release and petitioned the court to declare the balloon release as a violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.



This is not the first time environmentalists have tried to put an end to the traditional balloon release. In 2014, Benjamin Vogt created a petition on Change.org asking the school to end balloon releases immediately. In 2012, the University briefly put the tradition on hiatus because of a helium shortage.

 

[Schoonerman]

A Nebraskan with some sand in his vagina. Who'd a thunk it?

 

[bubba2023]

I never really thought of that way because the balloon floats away only to return way out of sight and completely out of mind. I am willing to be that everyone would agree just dumping thousands of spent balloons various places is bad, but letting them just float away and dump themselves is not as bad.

 

[Top Gum]

Maybe some Bugeater ought to beat the shit out of Randall Krause.

 

[12375CAT]

(LOL!)

 

[obviouslyZRH]

Well a big balloon release is pretty damn lame anyways. I would capitulate, if only to point back to it later when green peace wants to do away with a tradition that doesn't suck. When they say that noise pollution from crowd's cheers is causing some snow monkey population discomfort, refer to the "outstanding track record of environmental protectionism" ad nauseam.

 

[oldhorn2]

I was riding around the ranch one day and saw something stuck up in a tree.....it was a balloon with a note from some 6th grade class saying...".dont mess with Texas....please dont litter."....scary really....