Boy Floats Away In Balloon

That CNN weatherman is doing some scaremongering shit, suggesting there's a hypoxia risk at 7000 feet.

Holy shit!

blame pixar

Blame that f---g parent/guardian that left the child unattended in a hot air balloon.

That kid is either going to be incredibly dead or incredibly famous.

yeah i guess a 6 year old didn't build that thing himself xp

The way that thing is pitching and rotating and sometimes turning up on its side, that kid must be getting thrown around pretty bad.

gotta be fuckin cold as shit up there at the moment.

this is horrible

I wish Rick Sanchez was in that thing instead of that kid.

:(

is it dropping?

:( :(

god damn that thing is moving fast.. a helicopter would wreck it... hang glider????

man this is fucked up

is it too soon to ask what's on his ipod

damn it is fast

a helicopter would wreck it yes but what about some kind of catching device lowered from the chopper

I got lost in a department store for half an hour when I was six and I still remember how scared I was. This poor kid.

I am trying to figure out what exactly the dad was thinking with building this thing

http://i36.tinypic.com/25qw2dd.jpg

it would be awesome if the kid was totally hiding in the basement

The mylar + the kid can't weigh too much...helicoper seems like a bad idea...maybe a couple of ultralights coming up from behind with tailhooks.

I think the kid must be passed out by now or something. Hope he makes it.

is it going as fast as it looks or is it just the way its being filmed, I don't really have sound

The kid's name is Falcon?!

god damn it keeps flying sideways

fallin...

I mean sure every kid would love to have a UFO to play in, but it doesn't need to actually FLY

x-posts

it's fucked on one side, hence why it's dropping now. praying for that kid.

yo, people w CNN what is the deal w the rescue

lmao @ the video

That thing is about to starting dropping like a rock. Hope they have someone zooming over the with some kind of net or something...

Putting a helicopter above it sounds like guaranteed disaster.

i bet there's no one in it

that's just awful. feel no real need to watch the rest of this.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/t1wide.boy.balloon.02.kusa.jpg

Now they're interviewing a balloon expert called Gordon Boring. If this wasn't such an awful thing the names would make me chuckle.

it would be awesome if the kid was totally hiding in the basement

I pray this is what happened. I only read the CNN story. Any news outlets quoted the parents/guardiansa? (I assume not, but still . . . )

"Larimer County fire dispatchers are asking if a helicopter can use it's speaker to ask the boy if he has a valve to release helium."

The kid is 6. Are you kidding me?

tht poor kid must be terrified :(

do i see land guide ropes on this thing?

(not that they would be much use)

I had a quick look on the news but my kids are still up and I don't want them watching this live if it ends badly.

man how fast is that going?

yeah this seems destined to end in disaster. how long will cnn stick with this?

When you look at video of the balloon, I can't see any kind of an entry hole in it... So how did the kid get inside? I hope this is just some sort of a prank.

saying it's very possible the kid might have already fallen out.

Wind is around 30 mph, apparently.

it doesn't look to me like there's any separate compartment or even way to see out, much less breathe oxygen. :/

brit anchorlady on cnn is utterly useless

Damn, am I happy I am at work and not watching this. What a nightmare.

i'm watching the live feed on 9News out of Denver. Much better than CNN blowhards.

what a schemer

As seen in the promotional video above, Heene's conviction and jail stint for faking his son Falcon's ascent has not imacted his ability — first showcased on "Wife Swap" — to make strangers question his sanity.

I know this is pretty much par for the course with internet content everywhere anymore, but is it really that difficult to do even the mose basic editing on news stories?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gZ18TgcVF2w/R9k2V8I_jjI/AAAAAAAABhg/Z48oQTX8eGc/s400/Mose+II.JPG

mose basic editing?

Update!

Another Update!

(family moved to Florida. Balloon Boy now plays bass in a metal band with his brothers)

I was just about to a link to this with extra "CURSE YOU NED RAGGETT" content because it's his fault I listened to this

Hi there!

Dear God, did we learn nothing from Old Skull or the Death Kids?

Guys. I met Falcon last night. At the Morbid Angel show.

he handed me this

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/636/z6jf.jpg

so they're apparently still doing the metal band thing. I listened to a few tracks and...Richard Heene should get 4 life sentences.

!

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

Heene Boyz on Spotify btw

I saw them again not too long after at a metal show. the dad looked like a smug asshole, but the kids were genuinely into the show and were having a good time, which was nice to see. really hate how he's still whoring them out tho.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/03/11/mxp-what-happened-to-balloon-boy.hln.html

brrr what happened to that balloon boy

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

This is one of my favorite posts of all time

balloon boy on bass guitar (w/ his 2 brothers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc1bGHaTO14

guh-ross.

kid is dead.

― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:46 PM

as in, really. he fell out.

― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:46 PM

Heene Boyz - The Youth of America for Trump

the dad is such a piece of crap. i saw him at one of the shows his kids played in Tampa and wanted to accost him so bad. but his kids were having a good time so i thought better of it.

still will never forget the moment after Falcon gave me his card when I put 2+2 together and realized who I just met. couldn't stop laughing the rest of the night.

fox now reporting that the wolf is back and threatening to level the house somehow

― modescalator (blueski), Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.today.com/video/where-are-they-now-checking-in-with-balloon-boy-528545347572?v=raila&

https://www.5280.com/2019/09/the-balloon-boy-hoax-solved/

a great coda (?)

thank god we finally got to the bottom of that

🎈🎈🎈

That is the greatest opening paragraph I have ever read.

LOL

omg the ending

Still can't believe i met Falcon

OMG they live about 20 minutes away from me.

20 mins by balloon?

Lol

i was wondering how i could order a blowjab

Try going to Boston?

Happy anniversary.

totally used to see the entire family at metal shows for a period of 1-2 years, it was so bizarre. Falcon handing me a card for his band at Morbid Angel sent me into a giggling fit I couldn't stop for a half hour

good times

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/24/us/balloon-boy-pardon/index.html

"Richard and Mayumi have paid the price in the eyes of the public, served their sentences, and it's time for all of us to move on. It's time to no longer let a permanent criminal record from the balloon boy saga follow and drag down the parents for the rest of their lives."

Yes. Very sensible and generous. Now let's apply the same thought automatically to a much wider swath of the ex-incarcerated, not just a handful of people at a time.

you were the uniting force that bound us all.

please fake-fly away again

I knew he was working for the other side the entire time.

We have a national balloon incident, code, uh. Code balloon

When you look at video of the balloon, I can't see any kind of an entry hole in it... So how did the kid get inside? I hope this is just some sort of a prank.

― Tuomas, Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:25 PM bookmarkflaglink

he called it!

Sounds more like Tuomas was in on the hoax the whole time