"Places where decades of memories were built for families are destroyed," Gov. Chris Christie said in a morning news conference — beloved institutions like Jack-N-Bills Bar, Maruca's Tomato Pies, Berkeley Sweet Shop, and countless balloon and souvenir stands.
The latest comes with claims that Massive Attack founder Robert '3D' Del Naja is, in fact, the notorious street artist behind Balloon Girl, Bomb Hugger, and countless other world-renowned artworks and exploits.
Interspersed with everything else she had to do in order to arrive — one word at a time — at those countless ticks, she went on making calls about the incendiary balloon for days on end.
Richard Heene, who admitted to lying to authorities about his son being carried away in a helium balloon, was a member of RealityWanted, one of countless people looking for fame — or perhaps just employment — from the reality TV boom.
Countless cacti stretch into the distance – golden barrels the size of weather balloons – and long rows of stoic San Pedro prickly pears precariously balance their cladodes like Calder mobiles alongside grow rooms bursting with terrifying feats of Lophophora xenotransplantation.
In the five years since its inception, it's ballooned from a cheap daily daytime gameshow to a primetime staple, taking in countless celebrity specials, spin-off merchandise and constant, ubiquitous multichannel repeats along the way.
The story has been reported on, with ballooning panic, by the Daily Mail, the Metro, the Guardian, the Telegraph, and countless other publications.
Newspapers report countless changes.
We visited countless doctors.
Countless faraway stares.
