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Breaking: 6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:17 pm
by JTD
MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall says "This is a story we have never seen before."

Norad/USNG are scrambling. One FAA official told a NBC reporter if you have any idea on how we can resolve this situation "tell us."

So horrifying.

It's on all 3 cable news networks. Apparently, the little boy somehow got untethered from his family's hot air balloon and is now floating away to Denver.

http://www.msnbc.com

KUSA reports that this situation could continue for another 8 hours!

Imagine what the little boy is thinking. The possiblity has been raised by one MSNBC expert that this may be a Payne Stewart 1999 replay. Pray that it is not.

Denver International is being told to re-route flights so as to not possibly cross flight paths with this balloon.

Here is the CNN breaking news alert that they just sent out:

-- A 6-year-old climbed into a balloon-like experimental aircraft built by his parents and floated into the Colorado sky.

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Re: Breaking: 6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:23 pm
by grentz7721
Wow! :eek: I been watching that while flipping between the news channels.

Re: Breaking: 6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:30 pm
by breeze
It's all over tv, even TWC is covering it - I pray they get him down safely!

Re: Breaking: 6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:41 pm
by Brent
The balloon is down but there's no sign of the child.

Re: Breaking: 6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:45 pm
by breeze
I hope there wasn't a child in it, ever! The dad said the door wasn't made to securely close...

Re: Breaking: 6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:28 pm
by vbhoutex
breeze wrote:I hope there wasn't a child in it, ever! The dad said the door wasn't made to securely close...

This does not sound like it will have a good ending. I hope I am wrong!!

Re: Breaking: 6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:38 pm
by Ptarmigan
I hope the boy is not on board and is hiding in fear of being disciplined. The boy is Falcon Heene. He is the son of Richard and Mayumi Heene. I saw them on Wife Swap.

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:45 pm
by Derek Ortt
why does HOAX keep ringing in my head

this is a couple that has already been twice on TV... why not go for 3 times

Re: Breaking: 6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:43 pm
by Ptarmigan

Re: Breaking: 6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:50 pm
by arkess7
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: I would really like to KNOW HOW THAT REALLY HAPPENED! :roll: :roll:

Re: Breaking: 6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:07 pm
by Brent
Sounds like a giant hoax. The family was on ABC's Wife Swap last year and they are very much attention seekers.

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:11 pm
by HURAKAN
Now that everyone is ok and sounds like a hoax, who's going to pay for all the search and rescue?

Re: Breaking: 6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:30 pm
by vbhoutex
vbhoutex wrote:
breeze wrote:I hope there wasn't a child in it, ever! The dad said the door wasn't made to securely close...

This does not sound like it will have a good ending. I hope I am wrong!!

I didn't know this family was known. I must join the hoax sayers group now. That certainly entered my mind once I saw the balloon footage and even more when they said he was found in the attic.

Re:

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:31 pm
by RL3AO
HURAKAN wrote:Now that everyone is ok and sounds like a hoax, who's going to pay for all the search and rescue?


The good old American Taxpayer I would guess.

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:00 pm
by x-y-no
Hmmmm ... did the kid expose this as a hoax?

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

Dad: Did you hear us calling your name at any time?
Falcon: Umm-hmm.
Dad: You did?
Mom: You did?
Dad: Then why didn’t you come out?
Falcon: Um...you guys said...that, um...we did this for a show.
Dad: Yeah.
Mom: No.
Dad: Mmmm...

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:05 pm
by RL3AO
Oops.

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:18 pm
by Derek Ortt
throw him in an Ortt Camp for a year and let him learn what an honest day's labor is

Re: Breaking: 6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:43 pm
by vbhoutex
I hope you are talking about the dad.

Re:

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 12:45 am
by Brent
x-y-no wrote:Hmmmm ... did the kid expose this as a hoax?

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

Dad: Did you hear us calling your name at any time?
Falcon: Umm-hmm.
Dad: You did?
Mom: You did?
Dad: Then why didn’t you come out?
Falcon: Um...you guys said...that, um...we did this for a show.
Dad: Yeah.
Mom: No.
Dad: Mmmm...


I knew it! :roll:

Re:

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:34 am
by Cyclenall
Yeah, I knew something was up when it turned out the kid was hiding or something similar. I saw the story on MSN and saw the picture of the family; I knew it was one of the Wifeswap families so it being a hoax is likely.

That CNN video really exposed how bad they are at lying. They get very nervous after the kid tells it and they try to cover it up with fluff. Hilarious! There was even a small fart and a sigh when he said it :lol: .

Derek Ortt wrote:throw him in an Ortt Camp for a year and let him learn what an honest day's labor is

And that is the solution to all of life's problems.