Many strange things fly through the air: farmhouses, witches on broomsticks, rains of frogs and fish, and even the occasional alligator.
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And, of course, trampolines.
Armidale resident Sandy Davis was astonished to find a trampoline blocking her back yard, "looking like a giant put it there", when she got home on Monday afternoon.
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"I opened the verticals, and I thought: Am in the right place?'"
A vortex wind, Mrs Davis surmised, must have picked up the trampoline from her neighbours' back yard, and plonked it over her fence.
She deduced the trampoline - which takes four men to move - must have been lifted higher than the fence (which was undamaged; "not even a scratch"), and come in sideways (otherwise it would have taken out her gutter).
Some trampolines have travelled hundreds of metres in winds, and even become tangled in power lines.
The net enclosure is filled with wind, and becomes a sail, according to the Web and Warehouse site.
New Zealand engineering professor Dr Keith Alexander told Fairfax's Stuff NZ in 2016 that a trampoline is a "wing", which can tilt in winds, and fly away.
Mrs Davis encouraged trampoline owners to make sure they pegged the play equipment down.
"This is how freakily it can happen, and how dangerous they are," she said.