Popped: Balloon Over Al Gore’s Mansion Belle Meade Thwarted By Permit Police

By Kleinheider Posted on June 20, 2008 at 1:48 pm

Breaking news from the Americans For Prosperity. It would appear that the group along with its local host, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, has hit a snag in their attempt to fly a hot air balloon over Al Gore’s Belle Meade Mansion in protest of his climate change activism:

Sure enough, just a few hours before our event was scheduled to kick off, the Nashville Parks and Recreation Department has been in touch, claiming that the permit they approved doesn’t allow us to launch our balloon from the city park where we’re holding our event — even though we told them repeatedly exactly what we planned to do.

Roy Wilson, the director of the Board of Parks and Recreation, has even reportedly told one of our staffers on the ground that Nashville police officers will be on hand and will physically restrain members of our crew if they attempt to launch the balloon. Glad to see that the police in Nashville have solved all the murders, rapes, assaults and robberies and can now concentrate on the real scourge facing the city: unpermitted hot-air balloon launches over Al Gore’s estate.

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