Design
Myanmar's 2012 Balloon Festival Experiences a Flaming Hiccup
In Southeast Asia, the Hindenburg makes a hair-raising encore.
The Hot-Air Balloon Festival of Myannmar, formerly known as Burma, is a popular yearly blowout. Different neighborhoods of Taunggyi, a large city in the center of the country, compete to see who's crafted the best buoyant aircraft.
It's pretty clear who won this year's contest. It was the madman who rebuilt the Hindenburg and set it loose over a crowd of party-goers, where it vomited volleys of flaming missiles and brought infinite chaos to the suddenly frenzied streets.