Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/03
By: Tyson Lu and Kuo Chung-han
Taipei, July 3 (CNA) A farmer on Sunday said he did not welcome hot air balloons landing on
From Barkely Lin’s Facebook page
his land and called for equal treatment and respect of private property during a hot air balloon festival in the southeastern county of Taitung.
Barkely Lin (林義隆) said on his Facebook page that he “has become a farmer who does not welcome hot air balloon landings” since a balloon landed on his pineapple farm and damaged some dozen pineapple plants for which he was never been compensated four years ago.
The Taiwan International Balloon Festival opened on July 1 and runs through Aug. 7 in Taitung’s Luye Township.
Lin, who lives in the township’s Yong’an Village which is located just north of the field where balloons take off and land, asked why this “paid tourist sport” can “freely land on private farmland?” [FULL STORY]
