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

Did you see how "fast" the balloon travelled? No. You saw merely an optical illusion in commercial TV!

The only fast thing was the helicopter with the TV camera on board. They broadcasted a telezoom closeup photography of the small balloon so it looked larger. The helicopter circled fast in a large bend around the slow balloon. Nothing more.

Remember how often the TV reporter pronounced live on air: "See how incredible fast that balloon goes!"
 
kymac said:
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:D heh!



Those parents should be fined HEAVILY, paying back (at least) every penny wasted on this obvious publicity stunt. The kid even said "I did it for the show".



P.S. cciliberto33, troll much? :rolleyes:
 
I'm glad he wasn't found safe inside after a soft landing. I think that would have done more harm than good, encoraging others to stupidly attempt similar flights.
 
SwiftLives said:
Okay. Now I'm starting to suspect this was a publicity stunt.
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Now you're starting to suspect?
;)
The little boy only came out on US tv and pretty much 'fessed up.
Didn't you see his dad make like a fish with the mouth? Mom tried to deny it…

What a laff. :rolleyes:

This quote from the BBC's site:
"We intend to go back and further ask the family to co-operate with our investigation"
Jim Alderden, Larimer County sherriff
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TuffLuffJimmy said:
Yeah, if that thing were a cylinder and full enough to hold it's shape. I'm still betting on it not being buoyant enough.
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Yeah, that’s assuming the balloon was a perfect cylinder and was actually FULL.

Looking at the new footage that they released, you can tell that balloon was never even full and that flimsy material didn’t even stress like it would have if there was a weight in that “capsule area” (if that’s even what it is). The only way that balloon would have held that shape (instead of elongated vertically) with a boy in it was if the balloon was rigid or pressurized to full. Like a blimp. It’s obvious that it was so flimsy that it was barely inflated.

As a “scientist/tinkerer/inventor” or whatever, he would have immediately knew there was no reasonable weight inside it. Total BS!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/33342538#33342538
 
So the kid pukes while being interviewed on tape by Good Morning America and the parents drag him to a Today Show interview where he proceeds to throw up on live, national TV. Way to exploit your kids.
 
rdowns said:
So the kid pukes while being interviewed on tape by Good Morning America and the parents drag him to a Today Show interview where he proceeds to throw up on live, national TV. Way to exploit your kids.
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The parents get paid by ABC and NBC for appearing on GMA and Today Show?
 
Bostonaholic said:
Octomom got a show so I wouldn't be surprised if these morons get one as well...
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The sad thing is that if they do get a show, then they aren't the morons after all: it would be the people who *watch* the show who are the morons, since without viewers, no one would offer them a show in the first place.

I hope they get slapped with a HUGE bill for foisting a huge rescue bill on the rest of us for their own selfish ends.
 
rdowns said:
So the kid pukes while being interviewed on tape by Good Morning America and the parents drag him to a Today Show interview where he proceeds to throw up on live, national TV. Way to exploit your kids.
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Why blame the parents and kids? We have no evidence it was hoax and best evidence available now is that it was a crisis avoided!

CNN, Fox, and most of the regular network stations broadcast this event live yesterday AND MADE MONEY OFF OF IT! Good Morning America also made money off this interview (as they always do). Kid has been interviewed (by police and media) dozens of times and his world turned upside down... I'd puke too... What is entirely sickening is the way media wish to cover this event (two hours solid yesterday), then put family though third degree, with no evidence at all of anything but crisis avoided...

Local sheriff said he will re-interview family tomorrow after dust settles; why is media so vulture-like and desperate to make family guilty with no evidence and only conspiracy theories?
 
IntheNet said:
Why blame the parents and kids? We have no evidence it was hoax and best evidence available now is that it was a crisis avoided!

CNN, Fox, and most of the regular network stations broadcast this event live yesterday AND MADE MONEY OFF OF IT! Good Morning America also made money off this interview (as they always do). Kid has been interviewed (by police and media) dozens of times and his world turned upside down... I'd puke too... What is entirely sickening is the way media wish to cover this event (two hours solid yesterday), then put family though third degree, with no evidence at all of anything but crisis avoided...

Local sheriff said he will re-interview family tomorrow after dust settles; why is media so vulture-like and desperate to make family guilty with no evidence and only conspiracy theories?
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No evidence? I'd say the following is evidence:

"On CNN's "Larry King Live" on Thursday, Falcon said he heard his parents call for him from the garage. When asked by his father on air why he didn't respond, the boy replied, "You guys said we did this for the show."

When Heene was questioned by host Wolf Blitzer to explain what his son meant, he became uncomfortable, finally saying he was "appalled" by the questions."

Also, this couple had been looking to get a show for months, which jibes with the kid's statement.
 
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The parents deserve to be thrown in jail. The kid doesn't deserve any punishment whatsoever. He's 6. Having such horrible parents is bad enough. If we want to 'rehabilitate' instead of punish, then perhaps the best thing to do is to take the kid away from these irresponsible parents to ensure thst the kid grows up to understand that not all parents and grown-ups are like his parents.
 
Just tack it on to the rest of the morons in this state. The Ramseys, the Klebolds, The mom who was providing sexual entertainment and drugs to her daughter's teenage friends, the californians that don't know how to drive in the snow (or drive at all for that matter), damn near everyone in Boulder.

It's no surprise to me, really.

Hey, anyone ever see that episode of Mythbusters where they made a lead balloon? This looked so eerily similar that when people at work told me about this, I looked at the news site and said "no way, wouldn't carry a 6 year old kid). They called be a skeptic and a pessimist, oh, look who's right now.
 
Abstract said:
If we want to 'rehabilitate' instead of punish, then perhaps the best thing to do is to take the kid away from these irresponsible parents to ensure thst the kid grows up to understand that not all parents and grown-ups are like his parents.
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Holy crap! Watch this video of wife swap. The Henne's believe they are descendents of aliens after the dad fell down at a fast food restaurant and hit his head on the tile floor. :eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr_zA5E7n7A

There should be some sort of child endangerment issues here.
 
The local Sheriffs department now confirms this was nothing more then a hoax and "publicity stunt" and the family made it all up.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/18/colorado.balloon.investigation/index.html

Now who is going to pay for the thousands of dollars in rescue costs? It is not cheap to put some National Guard Black Hawk helicopters in the sky. I feel they should make this family pay for all of the rescue costs, however in reality I bet they will just receive a small fine and misdemeanor charge.
 
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