:confused: This is not a joke question!

Does anyone know why a BT engineer would be flying two purple helium filled balloons on a variable length of string while at the same time listening to a mobile phone? It happened this morning on some farm land behind our house. I observed this strange event through binoculars and could identify a BT van and helium cylinder - something to do with signal strength perhaps?

Perhaps he is trying to get discharged on medical grounds.

Seriously though, could he have been checking out a line of sight for something with a colleague observing him from somewhere else.

Perhaps he is trying to get discharged on medical grounds.

Absolutely no idea though.

Rob.

are you sure they were not condoms and you have witnessed some bizarre BT sexual perversion?

mmm :wrthless:

Perhaps he's testing them before January's BETT show (Educational technologies). BT usually have a stand with lots of purple balloons on it.

:P Somehow I guessed I wasn't going to get a straight reply!!!

Two possibilities:

a) They were the decoy team for some team of criminals. Stationed in plain view to distract anyone within a 3 mile radius with their shiny baloons...

BT testing some form of wireless broadband using baloons as low-flying satelites...

:P Somehow I guessed I wasn't going to get a straight reply!!!

I put a serious reply in my first post.

:confused: This is not a joke question!

Does anyone know why a BT engineer would be flying two purple helium filled balloons on a variable length of string while at the same time listening to a mobile phone? It happened this morning on some farm land behind our house. I observed this strange event through binoculars and could identify a BT van and helium cylinder - something to do with signal strength perhaps?

Could be them blokes from the csa, Batman and Robin, disguised as hellium balloons they may have kidnapped him?

I put a serious reply in my first post.

Oops, sorry! That actually seems quite plausible, but why?

in all honesty and coming from a tradesperson with a company van it could have had absolutely naff all to do with BT, many a time i have been doing random things around/in/out of my works van in works uniform but nothing to do with work

Conclusive proof that BT are full of Hot Air ????