I was going to ask you about the clean up afterwards with thousands of little craft or floaters with fingernails and hair. The lanterns I have seen here over New Year and the mess they create and they just drop down in peoples gardens. In our old house I used to hose the thatch roof down just in case.
oh yeah, that would be a disaster if there were any thatched roofs here. I would imagine that most countries probably would frown upon setting something on fire and then just releasing it to "wherever"