Movie Night 🤗 Great Mattress Migration of 2019

The Great Mattress Migration of 2019

Movie Night Under The Stars Mishap

Robb Manes  Published on Aug 17, 2019

We were hanging out at the pool when, suddenly, a mattress flew into the fenced-in area.  When a second and third one came in, we stood up, I grabbed my camera, and this is what we saw.

Runaway Air Mattress take Flight in Denver 

Apparently there was a "Movie Night Under The Stars" and in Denver, Colorado fashion, a storm blew in, and this is the result.

Colorado wind hurls dozens of mattresses through Stapleton in “great mattress migration of 2019”

Mattresses set up Saturday for Bed Cinema made their way through the area

People bought tickets to watch a movie outdoors Saturday evening while in bed, but they weren’t prepared for a flying mattress show in addition to the movie they were watching.

By Saturday afternoon, dozens of air mattresses set up for the night began flying through Stapleton, thanks to some signature Colorado wind, creating what one man called the “great mattress migration of 2019.”

They flew through a field, narrowly missing people who were running after them. Several could be seen flowing over a gate and into a pool with people trying to figure out what was happening.

One Denver resident caught some of it on a video that went viral overnight.

Robb Manes said he was at a pool in Stapleton with two others near the field where the four-night Bed Cinema event was set to take place at Runway 35 on Yosemite Street.

“We were just sitting in the pool and all of a sudden, two mattresses flew in,” Manes said. “At first, it was confusing.”

Then more started coming, and one landed in the pool, and Manes realized they had seen rows of mattresses set up for the event nearby.

So, they left the pool to see what was going on as a big gust of wind caught what Manes said looked like 50-100 mattresses.

“There was a woman trying to a catch a mattress,” Manes said of an event organizer. “She looked at us and said, ‘This is a disaster.'”

Manes said he and others tried to help her catch some of the mattresses, which were probably flying for about 30 minutes.

“Although we felt really bad for the event people, we thought it was absolutely hilarious,” he said.

The response to the video he posted to YouTube and Reddit was overwhelming, Manes said. Companies started contacting him trying to monetize it, but ultimately, he decided to just leave it up for people’s enjoyment.

It Isn't Real So It Doesn't Count.

(Air Mattress Version)

You might have seen this "Air mattresses on the loose in Denver Park" video doing the rounds earlier today. I couldn't resist pairing this with some of my music ("It Isn't Real So It Doesn't Count" from last year's "We Can Never Go Home" album). Enjoy!  Styrofoam

Movie Night Under The Stars Mishap

There were 150 inflatable mattresses set up in a Denver, Colorado park on Saturday for an outdoor movie night - and then the wind picked up.

Runaway air mattresses take flight in Denver
Dozens of air mattresses took flight in a the Stapleton neighborhood near Denver Saturday afternoon. The air mattresses were set up for a “Movie Night Under The Stars” event at The Bed Cinema. Most of the mattresses went airborne when the storm blew in.

“We were at the pool, and suddenly a mattress flew into the pool,” said Rob Manes who took the cellphone video. “We stood up, lo and behold this stampede. Apparently it was for a “movie under the stars” night and nobody accounted for Colorado wind.”
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/08/19/great-mattress-migration-stapleton-bed-cinema-event

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