9,999 Luftballons

The silly hippies in San Francisco have discovered something else to knot up their panties, (I can see that you're surprised):

A publicity stunt for a new warfare-based video game sent local environmentalists to arms when a mass of balloons carrying advertisements for the game cascaded into San Francisco Bay.

"When I looked out the window and saw thousands of balloons dropping straight into the bay, I was flabbergasted," said Rod Fujita, a senior oceans scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund. "I never expected to see something like this in San Francisco, where there's such concern about the bay and pollution.""

Yeah... You're so concerned about the purity of the water supply, you're willing to dump millions of gallons of caustic chemicals into it.

A statement from THQ assured concerned bayside residents that the balloons released "were made from a 100% organic product and are 100% biodegradable," with no history of causing environmental pollution.

That, of course, wasn't good enough for the envirotards:

"Even biodegradable products take a while to disappear," Fujita said.

Tell me about it! Hippies are biodegradable and they obstinately refuse to disappear.