6-Year-Old Boy Stuck in Homemade Helium Balloon

[Soul_Patch]

FORT COLLINS, Colo. - A 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.

Live footage from a local TV helicopter showed the balloon gliding quickly through the air.

Larimer County sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella says the device, which is shaped like a flying saucer, 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.

Campanella says the 6-year-old climbed into the access door and was in the airborne device.

FAA spokesman Mike Fergus says the agency has been notified and it was unclear whether traffic controllers had picked it up on radar.


http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/dpg_boy_in_hot_air_balloon_lwf_20091015_4061931

[Soul_Patch]

Live footage on foxnews.com now...kid has climbed so high that the camera man cant find him now. Last estimates were about 6000 feet and climbing...the baloon was moving at about 25mph.

lol...poor kid...but lol...

[BlackSwordsMan]

Rofl

[tlongIII]

My dad would never have left me alone like that.

[BlackSwordsMan]

He's eventually go to the stratosphere and suffocate or the balloon will pop due to the heat and he'll come falling down back to earth rip kid

[BacktoBasics]

My dad would never have lef tme alone like that.
I have yet to see this troll. Nice. Very nice.

[CosmicCowboy]

:lmao

[Soul_Patch]

Camera man is panning around desperately trying to locate the baloon, but nada...

Reminds me of that movie Space Camp...

[jcrod]

Live footage on foxnews.com now...kid has climbed so high that the camera man cant find him now. Last estimates were about 6000 feet and climbing...the baloon was moving at about 25mph.

lol...poor kid...but lol...

How is this funny?

[Soul_Patch]

haha they just located it and he is tracking...it looks like a flying saucer...wierd shit...

[G-Nob]

Danny Deckchair?

[Soul_Patch]

http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=4

space invaders...

i guess it isnt that funny...but definately freakin strange.

kid just went into and back out of a giant thunderhead.

[atxrocker]

watched some of the footage here at work, looks like he's traveling pretty fast

[jcrod]

Freaking sad, how did a 6yr old get it off the ground. Wasn't it tied down?

From the video i don't see how he got in or if he can see out. That thing is moving fast and will not land softly.

I can't imagine how scared that little boy is, this will not end well.

[BacktoBasics]

Latest report stated a witness saw him fall out as it took off. Nothing confirmed.

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

Reports saying he might of fallen out??? WTF crazy

[DisAsTerBot]

wow.....he's hauling ass!!!! lol

[Soul_Patch]

Yea i just cant imagine how or why anyone would own a freaking giant helium baloon, much less allow their kids to go anywher near it if it was capable of taking off like that.

Doesnt look good really...thing is moving awful fast.

[Soul_Patch]

looks like the side is caved in and it is slowing it down...kid may get lucky.

[jcrod]

CNN) -- Officials are trying to rescue a 6-year-old boy who climbed into a balloon-like experimental aircraft built by his parents and floated into the sky over eastern Colorado.

Margie Martinez of the Weld County Sheriff's Office said a sibling saw the boy climb into the basket before the balloon took off. Since the door on the balloon was unlocked, Martinez said it's possible the boy had fallen out.

The balloon appeared to be a saucer-shaped, Mylar-coated helium balloon, not unlike a party balloon. The craft was drifting eastward, authorities said.

The helium balloon was tethered to the boy's family home in Fort Collins, the Larimer County Sheriff's Department said. The boy got into the craft Thursday morning and undid the rope anchoring it.

The aluminum-covered, dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office said. Watch the balloon float thousands of feet over Colorado »

"The structure at the bottom of the balloon that the boy is in is made of extremely thin plywood and won't withstand any kind of a crash at all," said Erik Nilsson, Larimer County Emergency Manager, according to CNN affiliate KMGH.

The Federal Aviation Administration is trying to track the aircraft on radar and has notified the Denver International Airport. Shortly after noon (2 p.m. ET), the balloon was sighted two miles south of Evans.

CNN meteorologist Chad Myers estimated the wind would keep the vessel moving at 30 mph. Authorities say the craft is about 7,000 feet above the ground.

Kathy Davis, spokeswoman for the sheriff's department, said a dispatcher received a call Thursday morning, and emergency services personnel were contacted.

Davis said a balloon company had been contacted and several media outlets offered to help track the balloon with their helicopters.

The family has described the structure as a a dome-shaped "homemade flying saucer," Larimer County Sheriff's Office Spokeswoman Kathy Davis said.

"We're trying to determine the best course of action," Davis said. "This is a first and we'll do what we need to do."

Stupid freaking parents.

Why build something to fly and make it possible to get in, but not safe to land.

[pkbpkb81]

wtf

[Fpoonsie]

Hey, neat. Just in time for the Up release. I bet the Disney folks just creamed their pants.

[atxrocker]

looks like he's coming down..

[Cry Havoc]

This thing has gone crazy viral. It's on every news front page.

[jcrod]

Its still going fast and tilting. If he is still in there, it will not end well.

[Soul_Patch]

This thing has gone crazy viral. It's on every news front page.

Not often a kid in a flying saucer is flying around the country live on tv...

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

I have a feeling this is a hoax of some sort.... I hope so at least.

[BacktoBasics]

Looks like our Military will respond quicker than 9/11.

[InRareForm]

this is crazy.

[Soul_Patch]

holy shit...soft landing...

[Cry Havoc]

He's down!

[jcrod]

what taking so long for them too check

[Soul_Patch]

So i take it there wasnt a kid in there after all? lol...either that or they just dont know there is a kid in there.

[Soul_Patch]

looking at it next to someone, dont see how anyone would fit in there.

[Cry Havoc]

He fell out earlier. :(

[Cry Havoc]

looking at it next to someone, dont see how anyone would fit in there.

6 year olds are smaller than adults.

[InRareForm]

hoax?

[Slomo]

Not often a kid in a flying saucer is flying around the country live on tv...

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjEwMTcwNzU5Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDM5OTUyMQ@@._ V1._SX280_SY400_.jpg

[ShoogarBear]

The boy is named Falcon?

You can't make this shit up.

[CosmicCowboy]

apparently a soft landing...now they just gotta find out if the kid is still inside...

[jcrod]

Looks like the kid did fall out earlier.....sad now they'll need to find him.

I'm so pissed off at the parents.

[Cry Havoc]

apparently a soft landing...now they just gotta find out if the kid is still inside...

He's not.

[ManuTP9]

where the hell are his parents?

[Cry Havoc]

where the hell are his parents?

The balloon was flying ~35mph across country. Unless you're driving well over the speed limit, it would be practically impossible to keep up with it, and that's assuming you have a head start.

[InRareForm]

those parents are some air-heads.

hope the kid is alive and found.

[Cry Havoc]

those parents are some air-heads.

hope the kid is alive and found.

Wooo! Headphone avatar thread!

[duncan228]

What a nightmare. What the fuck were the parents thinking?

[Fpoonsie]

Looks like the kid did fall out earlier.....sad now they'll need to find him.

I'm so pissed off at the parents.

He fell out after it had already been in the air awhile? I was under the impression he fell out just as it was taking off.

That IS pretty sad.

[jcrod]

He fell out after it had already been in the air awhile? I was under the impression he fell out just as it was taking off.

That IS pretty sad.

It looks that way...if he had fallen out while taking off, I'm sure they would have notified the police that he was safe???

[ManuTP9]

same family from that tv show wife swap

[jcrod]

same family from that tv show wife swap

You're right, here's a pic. Missing kid is in the middle.

http://cdn.media.abc.go.com/m/images/image-util/624x351/0bd873f3f813502c6815e2bfc0d3b48d.jpg

The Heene family from Colorado live life on the edge. Wife Mayumi (43) and storm scientist Richard (45) take their three kids, Bradford (8), Ryo (7) and Falcon (5), out of school to go on storm chasing missions to prove Richard's theories about magnetic fields and gravity. If conditions are right, Mayumi wakes her family by shouting "Storm Approaching, Storm Approaching!" into a bullhorn. The family sleep in their clothes so they can leap out of bed and into the storm-mobile. Richard calls Mayumi his 'ninja wife'; she maintains equipment, drives the storm-mobile, films tornadoes and waits with the kids while Richard jumps on his motorbike, heads into the eye of the storm and launches rockets to measure magnetic forces. At home the family are as chaotic as a twister: the kids have no table manners and throw themselves around the house, and while Richard devotes every moment to his research, he expects Mayumi to cook, clean and run the house without any help.

[CosmicCowboy]

I'm beginning to think the kid was never on it. After looking at it on the ground I don't think it was big enough to get off the ground with a kid in it...

Probably just a huge publicity stunt. Octomom II

[jack sommerset]

This kid has to be dead.

[Useruser666]

I really doubt a balloon of that size has enough lift for a 6 year old. I don't think the kid was in it once it left the ground. Maybe he was playing in it and set it off, but that thing wouldn't leave the ground with more than a few pounds of weight.

[Dr. Gonzo]

You're right, here's a pic. Missing kid is in the middle.

http://cdn.media.abc.go.com/m/images/image-util/624x351/0bd873f3f813502c6815e2bfc0d3b48d.jpg

The Heene family from Colorado live life on the edge. Wife Mayumi (43) and storm scientist Richard (45) take their three kids, Bradford (8), Ryo (7) and Falcon (5), out of school to go on storm chasing missions to prove Richard's theories about magnetic fields and gravity. If conditions are right, Mayumi wakes her family by shouting "Storm Approaching, Storm Approaching!" into a bullhorn. The family sleep in their clothes so they can leap out of bed and into the storm-mobile. Richard calls Mayumi his 'ninja wife'; she maintains equipment, drives the storm-mobile, films tornadoes and waits with the kids while Richard jumps on his motorbike, heads into the eye of the storm and launches rockets to measure magnetic forces. At home the family are as chaotic as a twister: the kids have no table manners and throw themselves around the house, and while Richard devotes every moment to his research, he expects Mayumi to cook, clean and run the house without any help.


Here is the rest.

Meanwhile on a quiet street in Connecticut, the Martel family -- wife Karen (43), husband Jay (50) and their two kids, Max (11) and Dean (10) -- live a life of calm and safety. Dad is so committed to safety that he runs a child-proofing business devoted to identifying dangers and risks and making sure kids stay out of harm's way. With all the precautions taken to keep them safe, Max and Dean seem to be afraid of everything..."you can fall down the stairs, get cancer from the microwave, get tapeworms from sushi, and the lava lamp could explode..." The Martels conduct safety fire drills, make sure the kids wear protective gear on their bikes and pogo-sticks and never let the boys out of their sight. The atmosphere in the house is calm and serene, and Karen and Jay are equal partners.

[Cry Havoc]

I'm beginning to think the kid was never on it. After looking at it on the ground I don't think it was big enough to get off the ground with a kid in it...

Probably just a huge publicity stunt. Octomom II

Or a case of, "Oh shit I let daddy's balloon fly away I better hide."

[clambake]

or "so, how much life insurance we got on falcon"?

[jcrod]

I'm beginning to think the kid was never on it. After looking at it on the ground I don't think it was big enough to get off the ground with a kid in it...

Probably just a huge publicity stunt. Octomom II

I hope so, the family is saying he went in and took off though.


On Thursday morning, according to the family and officials, the boy got onto the aircraft and detached the rope holding it in place.

Police say the family's two boys were playing outside with the rest of the family inside the house. One son watched his little brother go inside the compartment and watched it take off

[Sec24Row7]

Ok think about this... the balloon is ~2Meters high by 7 meters across... Volume is PiDh... that is 3.14 times 14... ~42m3 (its considerably less than this because it is a disk not a cylinder...

Helium has a lift capacity of like 1.02kg/M3... so... say... 2.2 X 42 (and considerably less than this at 5000 ft altitude starting point colorado)

90lbs...

Minus the weight of the aircraft... 20lbs? Does a 6 year old weigh 70lbs?

Could it even have gotten off the ground with him in it?

I don't think so... and even if it had... he wouldn't have gotten high AT ALL...

[BacktoBasics]

lol @ an ornamental named Falcon.

[jcrod]

Here is the rest.

Meanwhile on a quiet street in Connecticut, the Martel family -- wife Karen (43), husband Jay (50) and their two kids, Max (11) and Dean (10) -- live a life of calm and safety. Dad is so committed to safety that he runs a child-proofing business devoted to identifying dangers and risks and making sure kids stay out of harm's way. With all the precautions taken to keep them safe, Max and Dean seem to be afraid of everything..."you can fall down the stairs, get cancer from the microwave, get tapeworms from sushi, and the lava lamp could explode..." The Martels conduct safety fire drills, make sure the kids wear protective gear on their bikes and pogo-sticks and never let the boys out of their sight. The atmosphere in the house is calm and serene, and Karen and Jay are equal partners.

Yeah real committed. :bang

[scampers]

There's no way anyone was inside that thing.

[ShoogarBear]

Yeah real committed. :bang

That's the other family.

[jcrod]

That's the other family.

:lol oh, thanks for pointing that out. didn't even read the whole thing just the bold.

[911]

5yMf8_S6mcU

[Slydragon]

Wow this is almost like a game thread,

My 2 cents is it's a set up, the dad wants attention to his work, he has submeted videos to new channels on his work on planets and storm chasing and I think they said he was on wife swap or some shit like that.

What better PR than throwing a balloon up and saying his kids in it and then the kids can't be found. They must be looking like crazy in that hood so the kid must know some super crazy hiding spot or the dad stash him for a bit.

[BlackSwordsMan]

the dad killed the kid and hid his body somewhere else

[Last Comic Standing]

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/RackTheMouse/jiffy-Boy.jpg

[BacktoBasics]

We need a wytch of sequ's head popping out of the balloon mid flight.

[desflood]

the dad killed the kid and hid his body somewhere else
It's sad, but I also had this thought. If people would quit killing their kids for no damn good reason at all, we wouldn't need to be so suspicious of the whole situation.

[CosmicCowboy]

Ouch.

I just ran the numbers a different way and it looks like it could have been possible.

Lift of gasses varies with temperature and pressure but I am using averages.

1 liter of helium will lift 1 gram.

That converts to 16 cu ft of helium will lift 1#.

Figuring the volume of a balloon circle 20' in diameter and 5' deep I got 1570 cubic feet.

That enough to launch 98 pounds of balloon and payload.

Probably enough to carry off a 6 year old kid that weighs 50-60#.

[jcrod]

Ya'll making fun of it, but sad truth is he probably got scarred when it was up in the air....opend the door and fell out. I hope he's just hidding somewhere.

[Bukefal]

What the hell?! How did he got in there? That's sad...poor kid

[Slydragon]

If Denver Nuggets drafted DeJuan Blair, He would have jump up and caught that balloon.**






**Yea I know..."but but its a little boy", I'm joking. I hope the kids ok as much as the next person

[David Bowie]

I saw this family on wife swap. Both the wife and husband are really nuts. I don't think that there was a kid in there to begin with, but if there was, that would be really sad. Hope he's ok.

Also, this must be a slow news day if CNN and all other news channels are showing this nonstop.

[Bukefal]

If he went in, where the hell is he? If he fell out, he is probably dead, im afraid. Imagine, the kid just went home and is watching cartoons on his couch in front of the tv with a bag of chips.

[Soul_Patch]

I was thinking....why in the hell were the kids not in school anyway...

[MannyIsGod]

You're telling me a 6 year old is going to sit still while he's in the air in this thing? Yeah fucking right. You can't get 6 year olds to sit still under normal conditions. No way he was ever in that thing. If he was he would have broken through it rather quickly.

[mookie2001]

did the kid die or what?

[CosmicCowboy]

The "box" that he supposedly climbed into was apparently not with the balloon when it landed. speculation is that it broke up/broke away in flight between point A and Point B.

not a good sign.

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

Hate to speculate... but I believe if the kid never took off with the balloon and was hiding, he would of been found by now. I don't see too many possibilities of this kid still being alive

[thispego]

crofl, i cant even believe this is something thats real

[mookie2001]

thats part of growing up, you gotta let your kids make their own decisions

[CosmicCowboy]

Hate to speculate... but I believe if the kid never took off with the balloon and was hiding, he would of been found by now. I don't see too many possibilities of this kid still being alive

At this point it looks like best case scenario would be to find him a mile or so downrange where the box fell before the balloon got too high and he is busted up but not dead...as time passes that seems less and less likely. I'm sure they have choppers up looking for him...they know the exact wind direction, point of departure and point of landing...it won't take long to cover that flight path...

[BacktoBasics]

They can't even agree on flight path right now. Its a mess.

[mookie2001]

we'll have to wait on the homemade helium ballon commission report

[CosmicCowboy]

hmmm...local police don't seem to be buying into it...


"At this point, we are thinking that he did not fall out of the balloon and is somewhere on the ground," Larimer County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Eloise Campanella said. "The basket itself was not breached. It does not look like he fell out of it, but again, this is all conjecture.

Campanella said authorities are searching the neighborhood for the boy.

"I'm very confident we will find him. I think it's a matter of him being a little scared," she said. "Maybe he's not ready to be found."

[Cry Havoc]

This kid has to be dead.

Wrong again, jack. :lmao How very unsurprising.

CNN reports Falcon is alive and well at home.

Good ending to a scary story.

[mrsmaalox]

He was asleep in the garage??

[thispego]

FALCON?!?!?! omg

[Cry Havoc]

He was asleep in the garage??

He was apparently in the attic. Probably scared to death of 5,000 people calling his name and yelling for him.

[mookie2001]

its like that movie 12 monkeys

[BacktoBasics]

How do you not find this kid for that long. I hate you fucking people.

[NoOptionB]

That was like a Disney movie gone bad, gone good.

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

Talk about watching a story about nothing spiral out of control...

[Cry Havoc]

How do you not find this kid for that long. I hate you fucking people.

Awwww baby don't be like that.

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

Btw... are the parents gonna have to foot the bill now?

[jcrod]

Wow that long to find him in the house.

[MannyIsGod]

:lmao

[Spurminator]

I at least expected they'd find him hiding in the woods or something, but the attic???

[thispego]

the parents should be forced to give him a normal name, now

[DarrinS]

Just glad the kid is ok.

[CosmicCowboy]

In a related story the family was just offered 2 million for the book rights and their own reality show "living with balloon boy and his crazy ass parents"

[Trainwreck2100]

Maybe he thought all those people were outside looking for someone's bird

[IceColdBrewski]

Best hide and seek player ever.

[Alex Jones]

wlKvrfkcr7k

[AnthonyM]

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/images-3/kanye-west-2.jpg

"Balloon boy, I'm real happy for you and i'm gonna let you finish, but Amelia Earhart had one of the best airborne disappearances ever"

-Kanye West

[Bukefal]

If he went in, where the hell is he? If he fell out, he is probably dead, im afraid. Imagine, the kid just went home and is watching cartoons on his couch in front of the tv with a bag of chips. - 03:21 PM

Wrong again, jack. :lmao How very unsurprising.

CNN reports Falcon is alive and well at home.

Good ending to a scary story. - 04:09 PM

You see!! What did I tell you, he was just at home !! :lol

[David Bowie]

I bet these people are going to get a reality tv show now.

Going to be the new Jon and KAte.

[CosmicCowboy]

You see!! What did I tell you, he was just at home !! :lol

Bukefal, you are a god.

Don't dislocate your shoulder patting yourself on the back. :lol

[lil_penny]

Thought michael jackson ordered take out or something

[TwAnKiEs]

Twitter has just blown up with the following: yo balloonboy imma let u finish but, Anne Frank had the best attic hideout of all time.

[ManuTP9]

anyone seen when the family was on larry king?? the dad asked the boy did he hear them calling , then the boy said yes. Then he said then why didnt you come out? The boy said " i thought it was for the show"

LMAO busted! then after it comes back from commercial the dad is all crying wtf haha.

[NoOptionB]

Thought michael jackson ordered take out or something

lmfaoooo

Post of the year imfo.

[Slydragon]

anyone seen when the family was on larry king?? the dad asked the boy did he hear them calling , then the boy said yes. Then he said then why didnt you come out? The boy said " i thought it was for the show"

LMAO busted! then after it comes back from commercial the dad is all crying wtf haha.

Like I posted earlier. I bet it was a stupid pr stunt by the dad

[jcrod]

If it was, i hope the prosecute. Freaking idiots.

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

anyone seen when the family was on larry king?? the dad asked the boy did he hear them calling , then the boy said yes. Then he said then why didnt you come out? The boy said " i thought it was for the show"

LMAO busted! then after it comes back from commercial the dad is all crying wtf haha.


Obviously, something fishy is going on.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/10/15/sot.lkl.heene.did.it.for.show.cnn

[ginobili's bald spot]

wI6UONWCq7A






:lol "Why didn't you come out when I called you?"


"Because you guys said.....We did this for the show"

[The Franchise]

wI6UONWCq7A






:lol "Why didn't you come out when I called you?"


"Because you guys said.....We did this for the show"

The parent's explanation for why he said that was even funnier than them getting busted. They completely nut up when trying to explain that shit away. :lol

[JudynTX]

:rolleyes The parents believe they are aliens.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[PakiDan]

Dad live on CNN interview - "Why didn't you come out when you heard us?"

Falcon - "You guys said.... we did this for a show."

[angel_luv]

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/images-3/kanye-west-2.jpg

"Balloon boy, I'm real happy for you and i'm gonna let you finish, but Amelia Earhart had one of the best airborne disappearances ever"

-Kanye West

:lol :lol

[angel_luv]

It was interesting to just read this thread this morning after having already seen on the news the outcome.

[CavsSuperFan]

The parents should be prosecuted & fined for this hoax…

[BacktoBasics]

The parents should be prosecuted & fined for this hoax…
The kid made a questionable comment. I'm not totally convinced its a full blown hoax.

Shear attention? What was the motive for the publicity?

[TheMACHINE]

The kid made a questionable comment. I'm not totally convinced its a full blown hoax.

Shear attention? What was the motive for the publicity?

the parents were part of the show wifeswap and frequently send CNN footage of ther "storm chasing". Damn right its for publicity.

[CavsSuperFan]

Its all true, no hoax what so ever...And giving BofA 50 billion dollars in bail out money so they can pay Merrill Lynch & Country Wide Executives exorbitant bonuses is in our best interest as a nation….

http://bp2.blogger.com/_Hf32oPvQGes/Rv7VX3X_33I/AAAAAAAAADI/D03RGtNCDUU/s320/Bahgdad+Bob.jpg

[Soul_Patch]

Anyone catch this mornin, on the today show...interview the family again...about 6 minutes into the interview, the kid just pukes into a tupperware...other two kids compeltely grossed out...dad grimaces, but just keeps right on answering and interview never misses a beat...

hillarious.

[Soul_Patch]

This shit just gets wierder every time i look at it again.

[JMarkJohns]

You want weird?

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And...

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[jcrod]

You want weird?

<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-OFLdtPFIS8&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-OFLdtPFIS8&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>

And...

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EBWJXXgaYBo&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EBWJXXgaYBo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>


Wow, i thought yesterdays interview was going to be his only one.

I get their angle now.....Reality show, they want their own show.

[thispego]

did y'all know this kid's name is FALCON??

[CosmicCowboy]

did y'all know this kid's name is FALCON??

:lmao

uhhhhh yeah

[ginobili's bald spot]

:lol At idiots who still haven't figured out this was a hoax. You gotta be stupid as shit to think that after the kid even admitted it. On top of that the dad is one of the worst liars I have ever seen.

[CosmicCowboy]

They had already submitted a proposal for a reality show about their family that had gotten rejected. These people are terminally stupid.

[CosmicCowboy]

Then again, never under estimate the stupidity of the average TV audience. They may lap this shit up like a stray dog on a can of Mighty Dog.

[JMarkJohns]

The Beginning? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rp53iOe590)

This just keeps getting weirder and weirder...

[MannyIsGod]

His faux outrage is amazing. If he's so fucking outraged why does he keep going in front of cameras. Fucking morons and their stupid hoax.

[CosmicCowboy]

The guy is supposed to be some mad hyper-intellectual scientist. After getting a better look at the "flying saucer" it obviously couldn't POSSIBLY carry a payload like a kid. It would be lucky to hover with 20# in it. Fucking thing had less than 1000 cubic feet of helium in it. Even if he didn't plan the scam he should have KNOWN it wasn't possible. This shit has mega-scam written all over it.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Putting his kids up to this is what's really sad.

[MannyIsGod]

The guy is supposed to be some mad hyper-intellectual scientist. After getting a better look at the "flying saucer" it obviously couldn't POSSIBLY carry a payload like a kid. It would be lucky to hover with 20# in it. Fucking thing had less than 1000 cubic feet of helium in it. Even if he didn't plan the scam he should have KNOWN it wasn't possible. This shit has mega-scam written all over it.


Yeah thats what I said yesterday. No fucking way that shit was going to hold a kid so I"m not sure why everyone thought he was in there. Everyone should have known it was bullshit from the start.

[mouse]

The guy is supposed to be some mad hyper-intellectual scientist. After getting a better look at the "flying saucer" it obviously couldn't POSSIBLY carry a payload like a kid. It would be lucky to hover with 20# in it. Fucking thing had less than 1000 cubic feet of helium in it. Even if he didn't plan the scam he should have KNOWN it wasn't possible. This shit has mega-scam written all over it.


I told my smelly spam eating bitch girlfriend the same thing when it was in the air. I told her how much helium it would take to get a small VCR off the ground and she gave me that CumpDumper STFU already comeback, like I was talking about 9/11 or Intelligent design.

Good to know I was not alone in my Theory.

Even if it was a Mexican that doesn't like me and redneck that doesn't give a shit. :tu

[ginobili's bald spot]

Exactly. It doesn't take an Astrophysicist to figure out that balloon probably couldn't even carry 5-10 pounds. Let alone a fucking 6 year old.

[Soul_Patch]

lol at all the post fact intellectuals...

"ohhh i knew all along it couldnt carry a kid!" Everyone knows mx/^97=2*3325 doesnt equate to the square root of a jiffy pop balloon...


you silly mortals....

:wakeup

[Cheese]

Uhhh… why did the mom queef on national tv? You see two of the boys look at her like “Mom what the fuck!!!”

[JMarkJohns]

Talk is charges could be in the near future...

[MiamiHeat]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-10-17-balloon-boy_N.htm

Sheriff to file criminal charges in balloon boy case

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A Colorado sheriff indicated Saturday that criminal charges probably will be filed against one or both of the parents whose 6-year-old son was said to be aboard a wayward balloon.

Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden spoke to reporters to announce "significant progress" in the investigation after a second round of interviews with the family this afternoon.

The sheriff indicated the likely charges are misdemeanors and no one in the family will be arrested.

HENNE HELPER: Researcher says he worked on UFO hoax

Alderden said, given the seriousness of the incident, he would consult with the Federal Aviation Administration and other federal agencies on potential federal charges.

Alderden previously said that if the balloon ordeal was a hoax, the parents could be charged with making a false report to authorities, a low-level misdemeanor.

"We were looking at Class 3 misdemeanor, which hardly seems serious enough given the circumstances," Alderden said Saturday. "We are talking to the district attorney, federal officials to see if perhaps there aren't additional federal charges that are appropriate in this circumstance."

He said deputies wanted a search warrant for the family's home, and there would be more information at a news conference Sunday.

It wasn't clear where the family was late Saturday night. By 9 p.m., an AP reporter at the family home said the couple hadn't returned after leaving the sheriff's office. Their three sons were believed to have been at home being watched by sheriff's officials earlier in the day, but their whereabouts also weren't known to reporters in the evening.

The Heenes were expected to speak to reporters outside their home later Saturday, after a strange day that began with Richard Heene knocking on the windows of journalists camped outside his home and promising a "big announcement."

[JMarkJohns]

The most significant part of that article is the mention of possible Federal charges being looked into. That'll eff them over...

So long as they pay back every cent spent on this "search" and are publicly humiliated, justice is served.

[Samr]

http://gawker.com/5383858/exclusive-i-helped-richard-heene-plan-a-balloon-hoax


For the first time, 25-year-old researcher Robert Thomas reveals to Gawker how earlier this year he and Richard Heene drew up a master plan to generate a massive media controversy using a weather balloon. To get famous, of course.

Thomas spent several months earlier this year working on developing a reality science TV show to pitch to networks — the "show," Thomas says, that Falcon was referring to when he told CNN "We did it for the show." Among the ideas that Heene, Thomas and two others came up with for their reality TV proposal — and one that he says most intrigued Heene — involved a weather balloon modified to look like a UFO which they would launch in an attempt to drum up media interest in both the Heene family and the series he was desperate to get on the air. Still, Thomas never imagined that Heene would involve his six-year-old son in what he is certain was a "global media hoax" to further Richard Heene's own celebrity. Thomas' story of his time with Heene, based on an interview with Ryan Tate, follows below. It's a fascinating account and after he publicly offered to sell his story, we paid him for it.

[Slydragon]

Wow this is almost like a game thread,

My 2 cents is it's a set up, the dad wants attention to his work, he has submeted videos to new channels on his work on planets and storm chasing and I think they said he was on wife swap or some shit like that.

What better PR than throwing a balloon up and saying his kids in it and then the kids can't be found. They must be looking like crazy in that hood so the kid must know some super crazy hiding spot or the dad stash him for a bit.

I called that shit. *pats back*

[ALWAYS bet on BLACK]

Any chance the parents of the overpriveleged, arrogant white 16 year old girl are faking her being missing for the sake of more attention just like the balloon boy?

[TacoCabanaFajitas]

Any chance the parents of the overpriveleged, arrogant white 16 year old girl are faking her being missing for the sake of more attention just like the balloon boy?

Last night I read this and was like :rolleyes then I open my laptop up this morning and there she is on the front of Yahoo explaining how she lost contact