balloon whistle

A whistle fashioned from a latex balloon used to lure birds from telephone wires into the clutches of balloon men made hungry during the Great Recession (2007 - 2016). During the later years of the Great Recession such birds were sold from the Balloon Men carts, refashioned into BBQ hand trucks. As supplies of latex dwindled, the balloon men began to use plastic garbage bags, contraband in urban areas, but still recoverable from suburban and rural garbage dumps and local merchants.