Boy Floats Away In Balloon

I hate how The Man just shot him down, just like all our own childish dreams and hopes and aspirations ;_; while all he wanted was to not do his homework for once :(

balloon-crazy bird

http://i33.tinypic.com/2qbxkdd.jpg

apparently the kid had a habit of crying balloon fall wolf eat

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:58 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lool

i love how determined this bird looks as though he is racing to take this animal to safety

the safety of having its flesh stripped off and swallowed in chunks

the CNN website is all screwed up...they're saying that First Lady Michelle Obama is speaking to military families in Florida...it's not a military family, as far as I know...and there's only 1 of them...and they're in Colorado, not Florida!...sheesh, how could they get it so wrong?!

yeah see people always talk about how the internet can aggregate information and keep people amazingly aware of breaking news, but I could just as easily look at the end of this thread and conclude that a werewolf child parachuted out of Kanye West's balloon

sound the drudge siren

and Kanye still won't get an award for the video xp

the CNN website is all screwed up...they're saying that First Lady Michelle Obama is speaking to military families in Florida...it's not a military family, as far as I know...and there's only 1 of them...and they're in Colorado, not Florida!...sheesh, how could they get it so wrong?!

Balloon boy has made fools of everyone.

police are trying recreate what happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNuFlAHaO-k

Can we get a crying falcon jpeg up in this bitch?

a werewolf child parachuted out of Kanye West's balloon

need Photoshop genius FAST

seriously, though, what is the status here

http://istwitterdown.com/

http://i38.tinypic.com/2mi2lj4.jpg

sorry, I guess that was Tuomassy of me

wolf swap

lol this thread

dont try to shampoo a shampooer

prob the older brother did it - 50/50 the boy was actually inside

― ice cr?m, Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:29 PM

hm yes the Schrödinger's boy theory

haah

lolololol

http://gawker.com/5382731/everything-the-internet-knows-about-balloonkid-and-his-family

rolling balloon disaster thread

Dutch tourists die in China balloon crash
updated 1:43 a.m. EDT, Thu October 15, 2009

(CNN) -- A search party of hundreds hunted for a hot-air balloon that had been reported catching fire and crashing in southern China, arriving in time to save only three of the seven people aboard.

Four Dutch tourists died in the crash Wednesday in Guilin, a popular tourist spot, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

The pilots of the balloon took off from Yangshuo County, then lost control of the craft, the agency reported. Government officials dispatched 400 searchers to find the balloon, which had caught fire at some point.

The two pilots and one other Dutch tourist survived the crash.

After the crash, all hot-air balloon businesses were suspended in the area as officials conducted a safety overhaul, Xinhua reported.

rising balloon death tolls are a serious worry

not a little boy, don't care

it's as if a strange trend for balloon use has ended suddenly in disaster. the cork on the balloon bottle has been released you might say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXHHjoGmExw

So, it looks like my Knowing theory wasn't so far-fetched after all.

was it a spaceship shaped balloon?

Deputy: Object seen falling from balloon

Authorities are searching for a box that was attached to the bottom of an experimental aircraft that took off from a Fort Collins home, CNN affiliate KUSA reported. A Weld County sheriff's deputy says he saw an object fall off the balloon somewhere over Platteville, which is in the search area. developing story

so back to parenting failures:

why weren't these kids in school?

A boy can learn more from sitting in a balloon than sitting around a classroom!

schools pussified man ill kick u in the nuts

A series of balloon attacks on security forces in Pakistan has killed about 40 people.

In Lahore, police and militants fought balloon battles at a federal security building and two police academies that left at least 26 people dead.

A suicide car balloon at a police station in the north-western town of Kohat left 11 dead, while another car balloon in the nearby city of Peshawar killed a child.

More than 150 have died in Pakistan in balloon attacks in the past two weeks.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG

I just discovered that the college classmate of mine I thought had died in a balloon accident several years in a ballooning accident actually faked his death to get his name off the alumni call/mailing list

!!!

I for one welcome our new balloon overlords.

??!!!

Ever since the Hindenburg went down back in three-seven, they've taken extreme precautions:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Chubb_balloon_arp.jpg

Couldn't he have just, you know, asked to be removed from the list?

http://www.odt.co.nz/files/story/2008/12/ballooning_oprah_falls_off_the_weight_wagon_1359965414.jpg

I just discovered that the college classmate of mine I thought had died in a balloon accident several years in a ballooning accident actually faked his death to get his name off the alumni call/mailing list

hahahahaha wow why didn't I think of this...

x-post

The dad, "a stormchaser, an amateur scientist (with some strange theories about civilization on Mars), and an avid self-promoter" who appeared with his family on the tv show "Wife-swap"

That gawker link w/ the video is impressive

wish i would have known about that before my reunion.

I keep farting really loud

Not to evade creditors or the IRS, nope. Just to get off a mailing list. Dude is hardcore.

Couldn't he have just, you know, asked to be removed from the list?

Apparently he did several times and they still kept soliciting him for money, so finally one day he snapped. Here's his story:

http://www.crabwalk.com/misc/harvard.php

(warning: dude is a douchey conservative but also kind of hilarious; also this isn't his blog)

Maybe the balloon kid did the same to avoid getting Valentines from icky girls?

(this is the same dude who spent one evening freshman year wandering around Harvard Square in his bathroom testing the range of his new cordless phone and also would buy crates of things like peanut butter and oranges out of catalogs because he'd never had a credit card before; he also tried to throw away all of his clothes once because he "ruined them in the wash", ie they were wrinkled)

Tuomas, what do you consider to be an "icky girl", brah?