The city council passed an ordinance last month banning the release of Mylar balloons and all those coated in metal or other “conductive material.” It doesn’t prohibit buying the balloons. Over the summer, a wayward cluster of metallic balloons triggered a widespread power outage in Orleans Parish after coming into contact with a power line. People gathered for a vigil in honor of Breonna Taylor release balloons in her memory on June 6, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. “We simply cannot afford to have power outages and hurt ourselves unnecessarily,” Giarrusso told city council in a meeting last month. The city council passed an ordinance in July that included a ban on confetti cannons and confetti at parades.

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