[The Louiswu]

"A woman who is 6 months pregnant goes up in a hot air balloon? She doesn’t have much regard for her baby, does she."

Please, she faces greater danger and greater risk just by getting in her car and driving to the mall.

[PAR35]

Please, she faces greater danger and greater risk just by getting in her car and driving to the mall.

Have any numbers to back that up? I didn't think so.

[Yo-Yo]

Have you ever seen a “good” balloon landing? Not anything I would put a pregnant woman through, any more than she should be riding roller coasters at Cedar Point.

[Westlander]

She probably did’nt know she was pregnant.

[Between the Lines]

Please, she faces greater danger and greater risk just by getting in her car and driving to the mall.

While over 42000 people die in car accidents each year, only about 2 die in hot air balloon accidents in the same year. But that does not mean that ballooning is safer. If you compare the two by hours traveled you will find that passenger cars have 0.47 fatalities per million hours traveled while hot air balloons have 3.43 fatalities per hundred thousand hours traveled.

http://www.facworld.com/FACWORLD.nsf/Doc/Hotairballoon
http://www.afn.org/~savanna/risk.htm

[Between the Lines]

Let’s see 5 injured and one killed in hot air balloons, meanwhile down at the Cottonwood Mall everyone seems to be safe and accounted for.