# When the moon hits your eye, and your car, that's a typhoon tossing it over the road

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**Created:** [September 16, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-moon-hits-your-eye-and-your-car-thats-a-typhoon-tossing-it-over-the-road/766100 "2016-09-16T16:28:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-moon-hits-your-eye-and-your-car-thats-a-typhoon-tossing-it-over-the-road/766100/1 "2016-09-16T16:28:14Z")

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> **[Typhoon Meranti blows giant inflatable moon around Chinese city – video](https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/sep/15/typhoon-meranti-moon-china-fuzhou-video)**
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> Typhoon Meranti’s strong winds blow a large inflatable moon around the streets of Fuzhou in south-east China

Typhoon meranti cafuses a huge inflatable moon to run over people and cars in China.

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> Footage captured on a mobile phone shows the half-inflated moon, part of the city’s autumn festival, rolling across a construction site and over cars at a crossroads

Thank goodness that it was not a festival that makes a reference to planet Jupiter!

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-moon-hits-your-eye-and-your-car-thats-a-typhoon-tossing-it-over-the-road/766100/2 "2016-09-16T17:14:59Z")

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[Similar thing happened with a pumpkin in Arizona just before Halloween.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWxY1WFL0vc)

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**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-the-moon-hits-your-eye-and-your-car-thats-a-typhoon-tossing-it-over-the-road/766100/3 "2016-09-16T17:25:24Z")

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> [@GIGObuster](#):
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> [Typhoon Meranti blows giant inflatable moon around Chinese city – video | China | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/sep/15/typhoon-meranti-moon-china-fuzhou-video)
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> Typhoon meranti cafuses a huge inflatable moon to run over people and cars in China.
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> Thank goodness that it was not a festival that makes a reference to planet Jupiter!

“I warned you what would happen if you showed up late to work again without a good excuse. Go clear out your desk.”

“But I do have an excuse! The moon ran me over on the way to work!”

“Spare me the nonsense. You’re still fired.”

(a few hours later) “All right, I saw the news. You’re unfired.”