Happening Now: Boy Flying Away in Experimental Balloon
 

This just came up in my office.

I hope he lands safely.

it'll come down at some point........

Hey dude... check out the flying cupcake

Crap the kid may have fallen out already.

really, how did he come out?

Runaway Balloon
 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,567041,00.html

Officials Race to Save Boy Trapped in Flying Balloon
Thursday, October 15, 2009


Print DEVELOPING: Officials are scrambling to figure out how to rescue a 6-year-old boy who climbed into a homemade balloon before it floated away in Fort Collins, Colo.

The bizarre scene played out live on television and prompted fears that the flying saucer-shaped balloon would crash with the young child inside. FAA spokesman Mike Fergus says the agency has been notified and it was unclear whether traffic controllers had picked it up on radar.

Larimer County sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella says the device 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. The craft is reportedly traveling at about 25 miles per hour.

The FAA is now clearing airspace near Denver International Airport.

Bill Hughes, owner of Blue Sky Balloons, a New York-based hot air balloon company, said there's two ways the balloon could potentially descend — by its occupant releasing some of the gas inside or someone adding weight to it in some way.

"One of those things would cause it to descend," Hughes told Fox News Channel.

"We were sitting eating, out looking where they normally shoot off hot air balloons. My husband said he saw something. It went over our rooftop. Then we saw the big round balloonish thing, it was spinning," said neighbor Lisa Eklund.

Additional details about the child and the balloon were not immediately available.

Click here for more on this story from MyFOXColorado.com.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

This is a developing story. Refresh page for updates.

Where did you hear that? That thing is really moving....

he may have run out of air.....or frozen (according to the live feed)


WOW...riveting....leaving this on!

just heard from Z about the falling out thing. :(

Balloon just landed...

Kid's gone. :(

DAMN could the neighbor say "You know" more times?

The balloon landed in a field, no boy found. They've double-checked the home, but no sign of him there. I really hope they find him in the neighborhood, scared for releasing the balloon.

hoax?

crazy, maybe aliens got him first.

I joked that that was the scenario when the balloon was still in the air.

I hope that it proves to be true.

I just hope the boy being inside was a hoax he and his brother made up before they let the balloon go.

Thing went almost 200 miles, wtf

No, really?

News-writing to the lowest common denominator.....

came down and no kid...

as of 11 minutes ago the site i was just looking at said they found him safe at his house.


and lee, THEY GOT A PEPPER BARRRRRR!

:zowned:

apparently when it took off the little fucker ran and stashed away in a box in the attic. i think they should pass him the bill for all of the emergency services that were sent out to find his cowardly ass. yes i know hes six, no i dont care

he hid in the attic because he was embarrased about losing the balloon? I would have said sheeeeit, look how far my balloon went muthafuka

I'm flew into boston earlier today and it was kinda a mess. I didn't know what was going on till I got to my brothers.

They seem to think the family did it for attention. They're deciding charges now. They also aren't really sure the balloon could have even lifted him. And if it could how high exactly.

Staged.......The boy's father probably hopes to become some kind of model or actor, based on the way he wears his hair.....Just saw them on the news tonight

:lol

I'd beat his ass till he didnt have an ass to beat. But thats just me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI6UONWCq7A


Kid admits that they "did it for the show", check the :45 mark

Must be related to my step-Dad.

I just copied and pasted. Didn't see this other thread.. oh well.

Exactly what hubby was thinking. Dad just wanted publicity for his balloon.

U suckas actually thought that the kid was in there? Dipfucks.

Why the fuck would you name your kid Falcon?

Yeah like you had the BALLS to post this before it touched ground :lol

right!

the whole "aviation" schtick

Where have you been in the last 10 years? Look at hollywood

Ever: Milla Jovovich

Prince Michael II (Blanket): Michael Jackson

Story: Jenna Elfman

Apple: Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin (also have a son named Moses)

Tabooger: Dan Cortese (that poor kid!)

Tu Morrow: Rob Morrow (say the name out loud…Tu Morrow)

Messiah Ya’majesty: T.I. (also has a King C’Andre)

George Foreman 1-6: George Foreman

Monday morning QB FTW !! :lol

I did wonder if the kid was hiding due to being responsible for letting the balloon get away and thought his dad would kick his azz AT FIRST.

However after 4 hours and now he supposedly was hiding in a box in the attic...BS !!

I honestly think it was a publicity stunt staged by his dad for notoriety to get into Hollywood OR to promote his weather balloon thingy...and it got even more attention than he even expected. Time will tell.

Somebody here said pops was on some show called wife swap twice already? WTF is that about?

I did hear that he and I guess the whole family was on there but hadn't heard that he was on there twice.

I will be surprised if he doesn't end up getting charged for something when all is said and done.

At least he should be handed a bill to pay for some of the rescue attempt and/or to pay the farmer for having his land trampled due to this.

yeah they're going to charge him but...............any bets he still makes money on the whole thing? That's the way our society is now days. People will pay to see a long made for tv version of this whole thing.

I heard today it is like a 500K fine. Local news said there were recordings of him talking to producers about it before it ever hit the news.

Be nice to see a "proceeds of crime" be used, in a case like that.

todays sluggy freelance lampooned the situation with bun bun stuffing a hapless guard into a similar balloon

ftw

Texts from Last Night?


I was just getting ready to quote that from there too.