--- --- # Giant Inflatable Minion Causes Chaos on Dublin Road by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Aug 3, 2015 11:01 PM UTC by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Aug 3, 2015 11:01 PM UTC A 40-foot inflatable character from the movie _Minions_ [got loose](http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/giant-40foot-minion-balloon-causes-traffic-chaos-in-dublin-31424185.html) from a Dublin fairground on Monday and caused confusion when it blocked a road. The minion, which blew away during strong winds, seems not to have injured anyone, but did cause some traffic confusion. A local resident who witnessed the incident told the Irish _Independent_ that “everyone seems to have had a bit of fun from it,” but one Dublin city councillor took the accident more seriously, tweeting, “Escaped Minion at Omni in Santry may seem hilarious but its a dispicable breach of health & safety.” > [](https://twitter.com/PaulMcauliffe/status/628251155697676288) It’s unclear whether the councillor’s choice of words was intentionally referring to the original movie the Minions characters appeared in, _Despicable Me_. \[[_Irish Independent_](http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/giant-40foot-minion-balloon-causes-traffic-chaos-in-dublin-31424185.html)\] Giant Inflatable Minion Causes Chaos on Dublin Road ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3983182/inflatable-minion-dublin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3983182/inflatable-minion-dublin/"},"headline":"Giant Inflatable Minion Causes Chaos on Dublin Road","datePublished":"2015-08-03T23:01:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:59.076Z","description":"The balloon got loose from a fairground","url":"https://time.com/3983182/inflatable-minion-dublin/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Accident","Ireland","Dublin"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3983182/inflatable-minion-dublin/","name":"Giant Inflatable Minion Causes Chaos on Dublin Road"}}]}] ```