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Woman shocked (literally) by hot-air balloon proposal

6/7/2012

Forget "I do." An Indiana man just wanted his girlfriend to say "I'm OK" after the hot-air balloon they were riding in slammed into a power line. The man had rented the balloon for his romantic proposal, but the inadvertent detour into the live wires wasn't part of his itinerary. The balloon's pilot, Dallas Beall, was making a second attempt to land when the basket he and the couple were in bumped into the wires. Beall was knocked out and fell into the woman, giving her an electric shock as well. "When the basket touched the ground, the female said 'yes' to the engagement," Major Chuck Adams said. We're guessing their first dance won't be something by Electric Light Orchestra.

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