Boy Floats Away In 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...

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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?

I want a portable bathroom to walk around in.

he also tried to throw away all of his clothes once because he "ruined them in the wash", ie they were wrinkled)

omg

this dude was a walking ball of cognitive dissonance, like he was my diametric opposite on pretty much any social issue you can think of yet he was easily one of my favorite ppl in my class because he was so massively entertaining

that's an amazing story. how did he fit Harvard Square into his bathroom!

http://www.dymaxionweb.com/kulturedrome/zardoz-head.jpg

He contained multitudes.

http://pfunn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/v_lizard1.jpg

^ icke girl ?

I mean, dude had a picture of himself yachting with WF Buckley on his dresser, yet his main technique for trying to pick up girls was buying 64-packs of crayons and getting them to color with him

lol oops where it says "bathroom" it should say "bathrobe"

No way did he throw away his clothes because they were wrinkled. WTF.

(Then again my mum once asked what she needed to do with the groceries once the supermarket woman had scanned'em. "Stuff them in the bag, mom.")

yet his main technique for trying to pick up girls was buying 64-packs of crayons and getting them to color with him!

Question is, did it work?

The clothing argument was hilarious because his roommates were all, "uh why don't you iron them" and he said "PSHAW I will just call home and have them send me money for more clothes." He got on the phone with his mom, who laughed at him for about 10 minutes and said "You'd better get your clothes out of the trash and iron them."

And yes, the coloring thing did work, it was incredible.

That actually doesn't surprise me for some reason.

i didn't know you went to school with randall munroe

Yeah, depending on what else the guy had going on, I might have gone for that.

Yeah that crayon trick might work on me too depending on the guy.

KUSA TV: CHILD FOUND ALIVE AT THE HOUSE LOL

won't be alive for long

In an attic above the garage, apparently.

watching TV

best news story of the year, the world is ignored for a runaway weather balloon. good luck, usa.

lol. i was watching fox when that thing was floating around & shep kept asking are you SURE they didn't search the whole house and he's not hiding so he doesn't get in trouble.

daily show tonight is going to be a treat, isn't it.

so glad all these jokes have been justified all along he's safe and sound and no wolf

Thank the lord he's ok. Now he must die.

the kid played it PERFECTLY imo. good way to not get in trouble: make your parents think you're dead and then have them find out you're alive.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/8/8e/Singcelebs.jpg

"At this point, we are thinking that he did not fall out of the balloon and is somewhere on the ground,"

good to know he hadn't jumped onto a cloud to collect some coins. this kid has done well.

so who should be the most hated boy in america, falcon or his older brother?

It's not our fault! We didn't want the boy, he was an accident!