As Barney slowly imploded, volunteers and police officers teamed together to wrestle his flailing fuchsia frame to the ground. Forty-three-mile-per-hour winds whipped the balloon to and fro.

This week, TikTok account @onlyninetieskidsknow posted a vintage clip of the Barney balloon in the 1997 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade careening out of control over Manhattan’s Sixth Avenue ...

In honour of National Pet Month, Lindsey and Barney attempt to make some balloon animals... But they find out that balloon modelling is much harder than it looks!