Perhaps the most disastrous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade occurred in 1997, when an accident involving a Cat in the Hat balloon resulted in multiple injuries, a $395 million lawsuit, and a mayoral ...

The level of vitriol and hatred that humanity has leveled toward Barney the Dinosaur is unprecedented -especially when you consider that he’s designed to bring joy and teach inclusiveness and love to ...

While the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual delight, a previous "tragedy" on the parade route involving Barney the Dinosaur has resurfaced online. The incident occurred in the 1997 parade ...

It was a scene almost straight out of the 1984 film "Ghostbusters" — or maybe even "Godzilla." A giant, inflatable figure of the purple children's character Barney got out of its handlers' control, ...

On November 27, 1997, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade became infamous for those who witnessed the chaos firsthand, thanks to a perfect storm of comically oversized balloons, brutal winds, and ...

NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty; Evy Mages/NY Daily News Archive via Getty; Visions of America LLC/Corbis via Getty Sonic the Hedgehog; The Cat in the Hat; Raggedy Ann The Macy's Thanksgiving ...