The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is celebrating 96 years on Thursday. The 1997 balloon blunder forced parade organizers to implement wind thresholds after four people were injured. FOX Weather meteorologist Steve Bender WX explains more. https://bit.ly/3tSFtBU | FOX Weather

Barney met his dramatic demise during the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade in 1997. They were halfway down Times Square when the hefty winds made the balloon “super-dee-duper” difficult to manage. (Sorry, I had to do it and now I immediately regret it.) The handlers had to lay down on the road to steady the balloon, but it didn’t save him. A wind gust hurled him into a lamppost, which tore his side. And down, down he went as onlookers screamed, scarring children everywhere, and bringing joy to his ene

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