Boy Floats Away in Balloon [Archive]

VaporTrailx1

Oct 15th, 2009, 03:31 PM

It finally happened.

http://news.aol.com/article/6-year-old-boy-floats-away-in-balloon/719681?icid=main|aimzones|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fn ews.aol.com%2Farticle%2F6-year-old-boy-floats-away-in-balloon%2F719681 (http://news.aol.com/article/6-year-old-boy-floats-away-in-balloon/719681?icid=main%7Caimzones%7Cdl1%7Clink3%7Chttp%3 A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2F6-year-old-boy-floats-away-in-balloon%2F719681)

Tadao

Oct 15th, 2009, 03:36 PM

dumb kid

Tadao

Oct 15th, 2009, 03:40 PM

Hahaha it was empty

Fathom Zero

Oct 15th, 2009, 03:47 PM

Is it really? I can't see the news. I just saw it when I was eating lunch.

I was thinking about how if there's a kid in there and it lands safely, he'll get a made for TV movie, but if it crashes horribly, he'll be forgotten instantaneously because no one likes a story where a kid dies.

Tadao

Oct 15th, 2009, 03:48 PM

It landed softly and nobody seems to know wtf is going on ahahahahah

Fathom Zero

Oct 15th, 2009, 03:58 PM

As it turns out, the uncle that told them the kid was in the balloon was busy diddling the poor bastard.

I think.

george

Oct 15th, 2009, 04:28 PM

the passenger compartment was made of cardboard!!!!! goodbye young Falcon! Fly free ya' jimmy little bastard :)

Tadao

Oct 15th, 2009, 04:32 PM

I'm thinking the dad wanted to get his balloon launch televised, and made up the story of his kid being in there.

Dad may or may not believe in wacky ideas about brain waves and aliens.

Dr. Boogie

Oct 15th, 2009, 04:35 PM

I thought it was funny that the kid who flew off was named "Falcon".

Dimnos

Oct 15th, 2009, 04:38 PM

Falcon? Really? Thats great. :lol

george

Oct 15th, 2009, 04:56 PM

the power of positive naming.

The Leader

Oct 15th, 2009, 05:59 PM

This reminds me of that priest who tied a bunch of balloons to himself for a fund raiser and floated out over the ocean. I don't know if they ever recovered his body.

Tadao

Oct 15th, 2009, 06:16 PM

that sounds like a lie

The Leader

Oct 15th, 2009, 07:05 PM

The kid was found hiding in a box in the attic.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_boy_in_balloon

Skulhedface

Oct 16th, 2009, 01:36 AM

It'd be so memetastic if that kid Falcon grew up, became a raging alcoholic, got into a barfight, and threw...wait for it... a punch.

Is it just me, or do I smell publicity stunt?

Evil Robot

Oct 16th, 2009, 11:57 PM

Anytime a police helicopter has to take off it's an automatic $5000 bill to the tax payers.

george

Oct 17th, 2009, 11:43 AM

remember kids, balloons are for faggots.

http://revistagames.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/captain-falcon-f-zero.jpg

Kitsa

Oct 17th, 2009, 01:06 PM

I remember them from an old Wife Swap episode. They're pretty zany. They probably got addicted to being on TV.

Evil Robot

Oct 17th, 2009, 01:52 PM

I bet the father does coke from time to time. He seems long term coke head crazy.

Kitsa

Oct 17th, 2009, 07:27 PM

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Colonel Flagg

Oct 18th, 2009, 11:02 AM

And the Emmy goes to ....

Colonel Flagg

Oct 18th, 2009, 08:52 PM

One wonders why the police don't try this tactic more often.

Evil Robot

Oct 18th, 2009, 09:02 PM

Its time for the child protective services show!

george

Oct 18th, 2009, 09:33 PM

i would watch the child protective services show...one like to catch a predator, except they show some family getting their kids taken away cause the were neglecting their kids, i guess it would be more like a human version of Animal Cops than the predtor shows, but it would make dramatic viewing :(

Zhukov

Oct 18th, 2009, 10:21 PM

So it's been proven as a hoax, right?

Colonel Flagg

Oct 18th, 2009, 10:35 PM

That's what the "authorities" say, at any rate. Apparently they got bit by the "reality show" bug with their stint on "Wife Swap" and were hungry for more.

Dr. Boogie

Oct 18th, 2009, 10:37 PM

The sheriff said so, but I don't know if they've been charged with anything yet.

Kitsa

Oct 19th, 2009, 09:38 AM

They were on Wife Swap TWICE, actually, if I remember correctly.

Colonel Flagg

Oct 19th, 2009, 10:01 AM

How'd that happen, exactly? :confused

ZeldaQueen

Oct 19th, 2009, 04:46 PM

How'd that happen, exactly? :confused
The husband didn't like the wife he got after the first swap and wanted a new one.

Evidently they were so unoriginal that they decided to steal the subplot from Twelve Monkeys. And then were too stupid to realize that the plan doesn't work in the movie either.

Kitsa

Oct 19th, 2009, 05:18 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/10/15/heene.wife.swap/index.html

Dimnos

Oct 19th, 2009, 05:31 PM

Who gives a shit?

Dr. Boogie

Oct 19th, 2009, 05:32 PM

Given how the Octomom was able to turn bad press into a money-making opportunity, it wouldn't surprise me if the family were to get enough money from interviews and such to pay off their legal bills and still have enough to fund their next crazy scheme.

In other words, the hoax was a success.

Evil Robot

Oct 19th, 2009, 07:20 PM

Not if a judge issues him a restraining order forbidding him from all types of media until all of his children are 18, but then that wouldn't make for good TV.

Sacks

Oct 26th, 2009, 12:16 PM

What happened with this? I saw on the TV that the parents were looking at prison time and the kids were going to be taken away.

Colonel Flagg

Oct 26th, 2009, 12:45 PM

I heard that Mom dimed out Dad.

Hangie

Oct 26th, 2009, 08:46 PM

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1831/

This made me giggle

executioneer

Oct 27th, 2009, 10:10 AM

Oct 15, 2009, 9:37pm » baloon boy + anne frank, a friendship lost... in time I WIN HAHA

Hangie

Oct 27th, 2009, 07:40 PM

What do you get as a prize? OH YEA THAT'S RIGHT MY TEARS!

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