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6-year-old takes off in family's experimental helium-balloon craft (well, not really)

I see no child but a great landing.
The parents who were once worried are now in a world of hurt no doubt. This 2.5 hour event pretty much caused havoc in the air that has probably pissed off a great deal of people.
 
Ground reports, there is no child.
Edit: they believe there was another part :confused: that was hanging from the basket atone point. The bottom is made out of cardboard, the hatch is also cardboard. WTF?
 
Probably not the best ad for this situation, came up while waiting for stream...

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No child in the balloon. And he was not found at home.

He is either hiding very well at home or this story just took a tragic turn.
 
Holy crap this is confusing. Where is that child and if the parents knew there was no child in there then they're in even bigger trouble. I know it seems outlandish, but this is great publicity for that father who created this balloon.
 
jessica. said:
Holy crap this is confusing. Where is that child and if the parents knew there was no child in there then they're in even bigger trouble. I know it seems outlandish, but this is great publicity for that father who created this balloon.
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That's also what I was thinking... a setup to get this balloon noticed...
 
So they have video of at least the last hour, I mean I've been watching it for over an hour. I wonder if they can review and see if anything fell. The bottom is cardboard.

Also, the family was on Wife Swap and it was noted their lifestyle was not "normal".
 
Here we go. Reports are this family appeared on Wife Swap reality TV show. :rolleyes:
 
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