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Airdropped Packages
updated: Dec 19, 2012, 5:42 PM

By Edhat Subscriber

I noticed 3 sort of packages floating in the air over Santa Barbara, West Mission Street area, (as if they were dropped from a plane) around 5:15pm today. Does the hospital receive things that way? Did anyone else see it or know about it?

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GOLFERRW	2012-12-19 05:53 PM
Santa accidently dropped them as he was practicing his route for next week.
COMMENT 355781	2012-12-19 06:21 PM
Cottage hospital errantly buzzing around with aircraft and helicopters misplacing things.
COMMENT 355787	2012-12-19 06:41 PM
My dad told me he saw something that looked like a balloon or parachute around the same time/same area. He said he watched it stay motionless in the sky for a couple min, went inside to grab his binoculars and when he went back outside it was gone. He said there was an airplane that flew under it and the circled it an went toward the airport.
COMMENT 355792P	2012-12-19 07:03 PM
Interesting. I was already home and heard no overhead flights. 787 has provided some good info. OP, what exactly did you see? (Cottage better not be airdropping packages! High risk for loss, among other things. kidding...)
COMMENT 355796	2012-12-19 07:08 PM
air-panga.
COMMENT 355799	2012-12-19 07:26 PM
796 for the win..ha.
COMMENT 355806P	2012-12-19 07:56 PM
They were new babies being delivered by the stork!
COMMENT 355807	2012-12-19 07:59 PM
its weed!
COMMENT 355819	2012-12-19 08:48 PM
A pilot friend of mine used to have fun tossing toilet paper rolls out of his plane and fly back and try to hit them. This could be some similar type type of fun.
NATURE BOY	2012-12-19 09:00 PM
Seriously, like, with parachutes?? I've never heard of such drops.
COMMENT 355826	2012-12-20 06:24 AM
don't they sometimes deliver "organ donor" parts this way?
COMMENT 355829	2012-12-20 06:36 AM
Delivering anything via "air drop" into the city seems odd to me ... especially if it was something as important as a body organ ...
COMMENT 355836	2012-12-20 07:00 AM
Maybe something fell out of the helicopter by mistake. Airdropping stuff by parachute over a crowded urban area sounds a bit unseemly. But what do I know? I didn't see it.
COMMENT 355842	2012-12-20 07:17 AM
I saw it too while driving on the 101. It looked a little like a shooting star falling to earth. I wonder what it was.
COMMENT 355845P	2012-12-20 07:26 AM
You've got to be kidding. Does anyone seriously think a hospital would air drop anything?
COMMENT 355846	2012-12-20 07:26 AM
I certainly don't think it was an airdrop.
COMMENT 355849	2012-12-20 07:51 AM
Flying panga drop brahs.
COMMENT 355852P	2012-12-20 07:53 AM
845P for the win. Seriously...
COMMENT 355867	2012-12-20 08:40 AM
It's the new floatopia
SBROCKS	2012-12-20 08:44 AM
I can't think of anything legal that would be dropped like this. Did it land near a pair of shoes hanging from an electric line?
COMMENT 356018	2012-12-20 11:18 AM
You guys are sure mean to each other! People might get the wrong idea about SB and go visit somewhere else!
COMMENT 356021	2012-12-20 11:26 AM
018 - So your saying I can prevent annoying tourists from coming here just by typing something on edhat? Cool!
COMMENT 356097P	2012-12-20 02:48 PM
Out of 22 or so replies, were any of them helpful in any way? Just sayin'

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