A blimp-like aircraft emblazoned with an "America Needs Romney" message made an emergency landing near a Davie park this evening, much to the joy of many voters in Broward County, one of the most-liberal places in Florida.
There were no injuries, Davie police said. Except, perhaps, for Republican pride.
As the blimp went down, Twitter lit up.
"Just saw a blimp falling out of the sky. It says America needs Romney... Yeah right! You can't even keep your blimp in the sky," @swadedarling tweeted an hour ago.
"A blimp with a pic of Mitty that says 'America needs Romney' just went down in Davie, Fl. Could that be a predicament of what's to come?" resident Carime Hernandez tweeted.
It's unclear if the blimp was chartered by the Romney campaign or one of the groups that support him. Davie police confirmed the aircraft, which is technically not a true blimp, was advertising on Romney's behalf and did make an emergency landing.
Earlier, WPLG Channel 10 News (which displayed the picture above) reported about how the blimp was "turning heads" in Miami-Dade and Broward. "Flying high in the polls," the story said, "Mitt Romney was also flying high over the streets of South Florida Friday morning."
By Sunday, it was grounded.
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I live next to the landing site, im actually right here, the landing was pretty normal, police just got scared and rushed to the site.
Posted by: Eddy Carlin | October 21, 2012 at 09:13 PM
Davie is now considered "one of the most-liberal places in Florida???"
LOL, it is no wonder the Herald is bleeding subscribers with reporting such as this.
Posted by: JackL | October 21, 2012 at 11:18 PM
Davie isn't one of the most liberal, Broward County is, just as it says in the article.
Here's a link stating such: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broward_County,_Florida#Politics
Posted by: EEJ | October 22, 2012 at 09:01 AM
Oh the humanity!
Posted by: VP | October 22, 2012 at 09:10 AM
Looks like a propaganda tactic Hitler would use...
Posted by: Steve | October 22, 2012 at 09:39 AM
Heard from the crowd. Look in the sky. It's a bird. No, it's a plane! No, it's leaking gas at an alarming rate and in a death spiral. Didn't we just fill that gas bag up? A liberal 47 percenter; must have left the gas cap loose.
Posted by: naplesbob | October 22, 2012 at 09:41 AM
The end of Mitt, a bag full of gas...thou shalt not bear false witness agnst Obama!!!!
Posted by: denden | October 22, 2012 at 09:47 AM
God doesn't like liars and doesn't like having in name used for personal gain.
Posted by: Denise B. | October 22, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Its a real "SIGN" of things to come on November 6, Romney losing gas and sinking!
Posted by: David S. | October 22, 2012 at 03:16 PM
let us hope that is a sign of things to come
Posted by: Jean Markette | October 22, 2012 at 05:38 PM
I was on also on Twitter when that news broke out. Some over-reacted, but most of the people were irritated because of the America needs Romney aircraft.
Posted by: Aircraft Test Equipment | November 13, 2012 at 01:07 AM