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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: mishca09 on October 15, 2009, 01:20:39 PM

Title: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: mishca09 on October 15, 2009, 01:20:39 PM: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-balloon-boy16-2009oct16,0,7526459.story?track=rss (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-balloon-boy16-2009oct16,0,7526459.story?track=rss)

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A 6-year-old boy climbed into a homemade balloon aircraft in Colorado and floated away today, forcing officials to scramble to figure out how to rescue the boy as the balloon hurtled through the air
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: Skadi on October 15, 2009, 01:27:35 PM: oh my gosh.. have they actually gotten him down yet?
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: dweez on October 15, 2009, 02:06:36 PM: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33330516/ns/us_news-life/

Crashed down but was empty. Article says the whole thing was caught on video so maybe the child was never really on it. Here's hoping.
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: Skadi on October 15, 2009, 02:18:31 PM: Quote from: dweez on October 15, 2009, 02:06:36 PM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33330516/ns/us_news-life/

Crashed down but was empty. Article says the whole thing was caught on video so maybe the child was never really on it. Here's hoping.

:(

That makes me feel like barfing. That's super sad if he really was in it. Now I'm worried :-\
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: laama on October 15, 2009, 02:48:48 PM: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/CBS-News (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/CBS-News)
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: dweez on October 15, 2009, 03:14:03 PM: Well, they're searching so...hold your breath and say a prayer.
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: mishca09 on October 15, 2009, 03:44:43 PM: the newscasters on cnn made it sound as if this mightve been a publicity stunt since the family was on the show wife swap.
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: hmed2390 on October 15, 2009, 04:13:17 PM: oh my god. :(

I hope the child is alright.

That is bizarre and depressing. :(
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: redlandslide on October 15, 2009, 04:16:35 PM: Says on the news he was found alive and well. He was never in the balloon.
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: hmed2390 on October 15, 2009, 04:17:22 PM: Quote from: redlandslide on October 15, 2009, 04:16:35 PM
Says on the news he was found alive and well. He was never in the balloon.

oh, that's good news.

I thought he wasn't found yet.

Definitely would have been tragic.
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: chekovsulu on October 15, 2009, 04:18:28 PM: The kids were probably fooling around and didn't expect the attention :-\
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: dweez on October 15, 2009, 04:25:05 PM: My sceptically side says hoax/scam/fraud.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33330516/ns/us_news-life/
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: hmed2390 on October 15, 2009, 04:27:53 PM: pretty lame joke. genuinely had me concerned for the boy. :-\
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Post by: dweez on October 15, 2009, 05:08:28 PM: Agreed hmed.
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: ohcheap1 on October 15, 2009, 05:49:18 PM: At home, in the attic, in a box. WTH? Such a hoax
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: cz85b on October 15, 2009, 10:10:12 PM: I will not eat them.... With a FOX! Sam Sam I am... What is this story of green eggs and ham???

LOL!
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: Robin-Graves on October 17, 2009, 10:19:50 AM: Quote from: redlandslide on October 15, 2009, 04:16:35 PM
Says on the news he was found alive and well. He was never in the balloon.

I saw the news cast of this whole afair.
After seeing the balloon, I knew it was a scam.
For helium to lift a 70 pound child it would have to contain 1500 or so cubic feet ( my calculations are conservative mind you) of helium gas.
That ballon didnt hold more than 100 cubic feet at best.
I figured it for a scam right off.
Unless the child was the size of a house cat, it wouldnt have worked
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: laama on October 17, 2009, 02:26:58 PM: I wonder what was reason for this theatre.
Title: Re: Boy Floats Away in Ballon
Post by: Robin-Graves on October 17, 2009, 03:44:45 PM: I read a bit about it in the Sun,, and evidently the boy admited to authorities that it was for tv.
The father called the radio station before he called emergency 911.
During an interview the boy was throwing up he was so afraid.
When the father was asked about what the boy said, he told people his son was just confused.
They were on a tv show in America called Wife Swap and became media junkies.
Anyone that has an inkling of physics would know that the balloon was too small for the boy to be carried away with.