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Great story or a nightmare?
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"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction
with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the
moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the
neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"
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The best part is it looks like a UFO.
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I just read somewhere else the thing is 8.000 ft. in the air?!
Edit: A coworker just pulled up the CNN video and this thing hauling ass and rocking like mad. That kid has to be ****ing terrified.
Edit 2: How do they even know he's in the balloon? What if he hid when he saw it floating away?
(Last edited by The Final Dakar; Oct 15, 2009 at 03:25 PM.
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They could shoot the balloon with a gun, let the air out.
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"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction
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moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the
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Like 2/5ths of it is deflated already.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 
I just read somewhere else the thing is 8.000 ft. in the air?!
With a ~5,000 feet base, or 3,000 feet above ground level.
I'm the only one at the office that thinks this would be fun (and doesn't think this kid is going to die), but then, I've wanted to travel by hot air balloon for a while now.
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Well, its landed and word is he's not inside.
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HOAX. No boy inside, cabin made of cardboard. This family is SCREWED.
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$5 says he and his brother thought it'd be a fun prank to pull on the parents that went too far?
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You could tell me they were descendants of aliens from area 51 trying to leave the planet at this point and I'd believe it.
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It seems to me that if someone was ever inside and fell out while it was airborne, the door would have been open while it was flying.
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Is that the couple that went insane about satanists or whatever?
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"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction
with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the
moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the
neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"
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In response to the thread title, this has been a nightmare for me. I wrote a novel that was too close to the news reports and I really hope that the kid is hiding out, afraid of being busted for losing dad's toy. Strange how I can feel guilty about something I didn't cause.
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If I remember Mythbusters right there wouldn't be enough lift on a balloon that size to lift a 6 year old. Hope that is correct.
A lot of people are joking about this, including the newscasters on CNN, but if a 6 year old fell to his death, then, yeah... uh, yeah...
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Originally Posted by ort888
A lot of people are joking about this, including the newscasters on CNN, but if a 6 year old fell to his death, then, yeah... uh, yeah...
Yeah, I was the discussing that with a coworker. The entire scenario is so absurd you can't help but joke about it. It's unreal.
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Alive and well!!!
Hiding in attic. Let the mocking begin!
Story suddenly hilarious.
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Mock mock mock mock mock mock mock mock mock.
Dakar called it.
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My sig is 1 pixel too big.
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Originally Posted by Mrjinglesusa
HOAX. No boy inside, cabin made of cardboard. This family is SCREWED.
Originally Posted by ort888
Alive and well!!!
Hiding in attic. Let the mocking begin!
Story suddenly hilarious.
Originally Posted by ort888
Like I said...
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The state police better send them a comprehensive bill that includes time wasted on interviews by various law enforcement officers, gasonline, and per-mile charges for the patrol cars and officers.
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Originally Posted by JoshuaZ
Mock mock mock mock mock mock mock mock mock.
Dakar called it.
Not quite. If this staged, I was off.
Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
The state police better send them a comprehensive bill that includes time wasted on interviews by various law enforcement officers, gasonline, and per-mile charges for the patrol cars and officers.
That seems likely.
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Originally Posted by mduell
Attention whore.
Isn't it already well known that Dakar is an attention whore?
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Yup. Fake. The kid slipped his lips on CNN.
I guess I was too busy to even see any of it.
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Upon landing, there was no child found inside. Michael Jackson snagged this prime meat from the heavenly clouds. -- Michael Notarile
Finally an answer to the question "who could possibly make Britney Spears look like a responsible parent?" -- Dylan Love
The latest news is the father who claimed his son was carried away by a hot air balloon is a publicity hound. it's nice to hear ''hot air'' and ''publicity hound'' and it's not a story about Rush Limbaugh. - Nick Siracuse
The balloon boy threw up on both the Today Show and Good Morning America. At least someone in the family has good judgment. -- Becky Kershman
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I hope the city bills the parents for tens of thousands of dollars wasted because of this stunt.
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with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the
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HAHA, love the UP movie advertisement at the right of that page... how fitting
-Zach
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
I hope the city bills the parents for tens of thousands of dollars wasted because of this stunt.
3 hours of BlackHawk helicopter = US$ 40,000.
Diverting air traffic around Denver for several hours = US$ ?00,000
plus untold cop cars and men.
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BBC News - US balloon boy parents are given jail sentences
Richard Heene will be allowed to serve 60 days of his 90-day sentence on release, allowing him to work as a construction contractor during the day, while spending the night in jail.
He will start his sentence on 11 January 2010.
Mayumi Heene will begin her sentence after her husband's to ensure their children are still cared for.
She will be allowed to report to jail on two days a week, return home at night, and serve the sentence through jail-supervised community service.
The judge also ruled that her husband must serve 100 hours of community service and write a letter of apology to the community and public service agencies which helped search for his son.
The couple have already been ordered to pay $42,000 (£26,000) in restitution for the emergency services' rescue efforts.
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Rightly so. Darn attention whores.
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The couple have already been ordered to pay $42,000 (£26,000) in restitution for the emergency services' rescue efforts.
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moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the
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