While I enjoy watching the fly around when they are in my area a couple of times a summer. I did have 1 accidental interaction with a Goodyear Blimp crew in the mid to late 1990's
Wile working for Northwest Airlines, I was assigned to repair an A320 at the Rochester NY Airport. It needed a new Hydro-mechanical unit (Fuel Control) on its #1 engine. 3 of us where flown from Detroit to Rochester to do the job, we arrived around 11:00pm, and finished the job around 3:00am. We then had to leak and ops check the work. We taxied out to the run up pad and pointed the nose of the Airbus into the wind as per the Ground Controllers instructions. Proceeded to do the leak check, and confirm the repair by taking the engine to part power (Aprox climb power) per the manual. This is when we were surrounded by angry Goodyear employees frantically waving at us to cut power.
This is when we found out that in the darkness behind us was a Goodyear blimp tied down for the night, they were there to cover a Golf torment! They explained that they were a bit concerned when we pointed the engine exhaust at the blimp at idle power, as the blimp "weathervaned" in our exhaust, but when we took both engines to part power (you can't just take one engine up to that setting as the aircraft will tend to turn even with the parking brakes set) the blimp started to come loose from its moorings!
Fortunately for everyone involved no damage was done to the blimp, it did not escape due to our actions, and no injuries were sustained to the mooring crew. They were nice enough to give us a tour of the Blimp later that Morning. It made for some good stories for a few weeks back on the Detroit Metro Flight line!