I'm surprised they didn't get their top gun, Mr Thomas Cruise, to do it. That'll teach those Chinese jokers not to mess with America. Think you can send your old balloons into America, do ya, well, just you think again! America doesn't fuck around with balloons... well, actually they sort of did.
Can someone please tell me they couldn't have attached something to it and brought it down slowly, you know, and studied it in tact? No sir. Shoot that sucker down. It's America.