http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8837675
QuoteA 6-year-old boy climbed into a homemade balloon aircraft and floated away Thursday, forcing officials to scramble to figure out how to rescue the boy as he hurled through the air.
The bizarre scene played out live on television and prompted fears that the flying saucer-shaped balloon would crash with the young child inside. FAA spokesman Mike Fergus says the agency has been notified and it was unclear whether traffic controllers had picked it up on radar.
Larimer County sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella says the device has the potential to rise to 10,000 feet. Sheriff's officials last saw the device floating south of Milliken, which is about 40 miles north of Denver.
"We were sitting eating, out looking where they normally shoot off hot air balloons. My husband said he saw something. It went over our rooftop. Then we saw the big round balloonish thing, it was spinning," said neighbor Lisa Eklund.
I feel bad for laughing at this but it is just too goddamn hilarious to keep in. :lulz:
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on October 15, 2009, 08:07:49 PM
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8837675
QuoteA 6-year-old boy climbed into a homemade balloon aircraft and floated away Thursday, forcing officials to scramble to figure out how to rescue the boy as he hurled through the air.
The bizarre scene played out live on television and prompted fears that the flying saucer-shaped balloon would crash with the young child inside. FAA spokesman Mike Fergus says the agency has been notified and it was unclear whether traffic controllers had picked it up on radar.
Larimer County sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella says the device has the potential to rise to 10,000 feet. Sheriff's officials last saw the device floating south of Milliken, which is about 40 miles north of Denver.
"We were sitting eating, out looking where they normally shoot off hot air balloons. My husband said he saw something. It went over our rooftop. Then we saw the big round balloonish thing, it was spinning," said neighbor Lisa Eklund.
I feel bad for laughing at this but it is just too goddamn hilarious to keep in. :lulz:
You beat me to it you bastard!!! :argh!: :argh!: :argh!:
Someone's reading the same newsfeed...
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=22565.msg765253#msg765253
By less than 30 secs too. :thanks:
TEeeeheeeheheheee. I only laugh because this ended well. If it ended it tragedy, my reaction would not be so sanguine. But it's like baby's day out or something.
Dang...just noticed it hasn't ended yet...or has it? I can't look it up at the moment.
Quote from: Jenne on October 15, 2009, 08:29:04 PM
Dang...just noticed it hasn't ended yet...or has it? I can't look it up at the moment.
He's still in the air, they're trying to launch high altitude helicopters in an attempt to get the balloon.
You can laugh because it makes all those kids trapped in wells look like emo bitches.
Quote from: Da6s on October 15, 2009, 08:36:23 PM
Quote from: Jenne on October 15, 2009, 08:29:04 PM
Dang...just noticed it hasn't ended yet...or has it? I can't look it up at the moment.
He's still in the air, they're trying to launch high altitude helicopters in an attempt to get the balloon.
You can laugh because it makes all those kids trapped in wells look like emo bitches.
...K...guess there's THAT...
Quote from: LMNO on October 15, 2009, 08:09:58 PM
Someone's reading the same newsfeed...
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=22565.msg765253#msg765253
Yeah, it's this really really big newfeed called Twitter. ;)
Quote from: Jenne on October 15, 2009, 08:29:04 PM
Dang...just noticed it hasn't ended yet...or has it? I can't look it up at the moment.
He's still up in the air. Here's a video feed from a helicopter that is chasing him.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/video/18205848/index.html
the balloon is down--looks like the kid is not found yet, though... :( ...eta: or what they found wasn't good. goddammit.
Yeah...crime scene tape. Jesus. Well, this is horrific.
Oh, you didn't think this would end well, do you?
:( Welllll, I thought it was all over when I originally posted...didn't realize they boy hadn't landed yet. This definitely sucks ass...meh.
I'm thinking the kid was never in there in the first place.
But seriously, do you people who watched this intently also watch Faces of Death? I couldn't sit there and watch this while it was happening and I still thought the boy was in there.
I wasn't watching, merely reading, and mainly just to see the media lose it's freaking mind over balloonboy.
In all honesty, here's what i think happened: Obnoxious little shit releases mommy and daddy's expensive science balloon (for kicks of course). Balloon floats away, kid realizes he's an obnoxious little shit and hides.
Now the cops get to play hide and seek with him.
Just in: This family was on Wife Swap. I formally declare shenanigans.
It's always a good idea to let small children play with huge hot air balloons. That could never go wrong ever. Hey guys, I'm thinking of building a trebuchet in my backyard, should I have my 5 year old hold down the bucket while I tie it down?
I can't help it.
I'm :lulz:
:x I said to myself I wouldn't look at this thread again or post in it. But High Weirdness is in effect today, so, fuckit.
:x
Chances are, the kid is hiding somewhere, scared shitless that his parents are going to beat him for letting the balloon go, not even realizing what the hell is going on.
With all the news coverage on him...guess the prospect of him "falling out" is low? Or at least him falling out and no one noticing. So bizarre--the whole thing!
This will be a Law and Order episode some day.
Quote from: RWH1N1 on October 15, 2009, 10:24:17 PM
This will be a Law and Order episode some day next week.
Totally agree.
Quote from: Da6s on October 15, 2009, 09:02:03 PM
Just in: This family was on Wife Swap. I formally declare shenanigans.
Yep. Starting to sound really fishy.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE59E5H720091015
QuoteRescue crews rushed to the scene after being told the boy had climbed inside the balloon before it became untethered at his family's home in Fort Collins, but the boy was not found.
"The bottom of (the balloon) is contained and hasn't been breached," Eloise Campanella of Larimer County Sheriff's Department told CNN shortly after the balloon landed.
"So at this point we are thinking he did not fall out of it. He has to be somewhere on the ground near his home."
A spokeswoman for the county sheriff said deputies were searching for him in his neighborhood.
Quote from: RWH1N1 on October 15, 2009, 10:13:59 PM
It's always a good idea to let small children play with huge hot air balloons. That could never go wrong ever. Hey guys, I'm thinking of building a trebuchet in my backyard, should I have my 5 year old hold down the bucket while I tie it down?
I'm pretty sure Little People, Big World already did that one.
THEY FOUND HIM!
He was home all along.
:horrormirth:
Quote from: Suu on October 15, 2009, 11:18:16 PM
THEY FOUND HIM!
He was home all along.
:horrormirth:
:lulz:
Quote from: Suu on October 15, 2009, 11:18:16 PM
THEY FOUND HIM!
He was home all along.
:horrormirth:
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: Let the Media Circus begin!!!
Or continue, actually. Whatever.
Quoteas he hurled through the air.
hurled? Really, media?
Quote from: Da6s on October 15, 2009, 09:00:57 PM
I wasn't watching, merely reading, and mainly just to see the media lose it's freaking mind over balloonboy.
In all honesty, here's what i think happened: Obnoxious little shit releases mommy and daddy's expensive science balloon (for kicks of course). Balloon floats away, kid realizes he's an obnoxious little shit and hides.
Now the cops get to play hide and seek with him.
Who called it? That's right. Da6s called it.
Quote from: La Terrorista on October 15, 2009, 08:58:42 PM
I'm thinking the kid was never in there in the first place.
But seriously, do you people who watched this intently also watch Faces of Death? I couldn't sit there and watch this while it was happening and I still thought the boy was in there.
Kid was hiding in the garage. This whole thing was a stunt.
Quote from: Da6s on October 15, 2009, 09:02:03 PM
Just in: This family was on Wife Swap. I formally declare shenanigans.
WIN.
This was staged.
Not mine, but:
(http://i33.tinypic.com/bgcp47.jpg)
:mittens:
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2009, 12:42:28 AM
Not mine, but:
(http://i33.tinypic.com/bgcp47.jpg)
:lulz: :mittens:
Quote from: Nigel on October 15, 2009, 11:30:13 PM
Quote from: Da6s on October 15, 2009, 09:00:57 PM
I wasn't watching, merely reading, and mainly just to see the media lose it's freaking mind over balloonboy.
In all honesty, here's what i think happened: Obnoxious little shit releases mommy and daddy's expensive science balloon (for kicks of course). Balloon floats away, kid realizes he's an obnoxious little shit and hides.
Now the cops get to play hide and seek with him.
Who called it? That's right. Da6s called it.
Da6s wins fread, as does LMNO's latest Kanye offering to the lulz godz.
Quote from: Jenne on October 16, 2009, 01:37:35 AM
Quote from: Nigel on October 15, 2009, 11:30:13 PM
Quote from: Da6s on October 15, 2009, 09:00:57 PM
I wasn't watching, merely reading, and mainly just to see the media lose it's freaking mind over balloonboy.
In all honesty, here's what i think happened: Obnoxious little shit releases mommy and daddy's expensive science balloon (for kicks of course). Balloon floats away, kid realizes he's an obnoxious little shit and hides.
Now the cops get to play hide and seek with him.
Who called it? That's right. Da6s called it.
Da6s wins fread, as does LMNO's latest Kanye offering to the lulz godz.
And it can be re-used with the names switched around once that biopic comes out this year.
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
Also,
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r197/LexMarburger/balloon-boy-14.jpg)
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2009, 01:44:27 AM
Also,
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r197/LexMarburger/balloon-boy-14.jpg)
:lulz:
also the twitter trending topic:
Yo Balloon Boy, I'm a let you finish, but Anne Frank had the best attic hideout spot of all time!
Quote from: Fredtastic! on October 16, 2009, 02:11:53 AM
also the twitter trending topic:
Yo Balloon Boy, I'm a let you finish, but Anne Frank had the best attic hideout spot of all time!
:lulz:
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2009, 01:44:27 AM
Also,
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r197/LexMarburger/balloon-boy-14.jpg)
:lulz: CRACK MY SHIT UP!!!
DA6S WINS THIS THREAD
The whole situation made me :lulz: and :horrormirth:
The kid admitted he did it "for the show".
Yup, it was a setup.
Huh. I didn't hear anything about this until I got home from work at around 7pm and everything was already over. I can't quite figure whether I missed out on anything or not.
Oh, don't worry. If the morning news was any indication, they'll be talking about this for a week or two.
Yeah, because nothing ELSE is happening. Anywhere.
Nope nothing (http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/15/insurance-company-patients-dogs/) at all.
Quote from: RWH1N1 on October 16, 2009, 02:16:51 PM
Nope nothing (http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/15/insurance-company-patients-dogs/) at all.
:x :x :x
Quote from: Paesior on October 16, 2009, 02:20:50 PM
Quote from: RWH1N1 on October 16, 2009, 02:16:51 PM
Nope nothing (http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/15/insurance-company-patients-dogs/) at all.
:x :x :x
Not a goddamned thing.
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=22579.0
Quote from: La Terrorista on October 15, 2009, 08:58:42 PM
I'm thinking the kid was never in there in the first place.
La Terrorista wins a prize.
Quote from: LMNO on October 16, 2009, 01:44:27 AM
Also,
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r197/LexMarburger/balloon-boy-14.jpg)
I will, too. :lulz: I was at the barber's, waiting for a haircut. Saw it on the teevee.
(http://www.topcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/balloonboyfb.png)
That deserves the golfclap. :golfclap:
And criminal charges will be filed.
http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/17/charges-expected-against-in-balloon-boy-case/
QuoteAuthorities in Colorado say criminal charges are expected to be filed in the case involving a storm-chasing Fort Collins father whose giant Mylar balloon ascended into the sky earlier this week — sparking fears that his 6-year-old was aboard.
"We anticipate criminal charges will be filed sometime in the near future," Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden told CNN.
Quote from: RWH1N1 on October 16, 2009, 02:16:51 PM
Nope nothing (http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/15/insurance-company-patients-dogs/) at all.
How does this qualify as "News"? Everybody already knows this.