Kid floats away?!

DaCubanSkillz · 2009年10月15日

Kid floats away?!

WTF?! Who makes helium balloons on their spare time? lol.

Seriously though, the thing landed so now they are saying he fell out of it.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/index.html

(CNN) -- A runaway balloon has touched down in Colorado after a 6-year-old boy untied it from his family home in Fort Collins.

The dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high, Larimer County Sheriff's Office says.

A sibling saw the boy get into the craft Thursday morning. Officials were concerned that the boy may have fallen out of it, an undersheriff said.

Margie Martinez of the Weld County Sheriff's Office said a sibling saw Falcon Heene climb into the basket before the balloon took off from his parents' Fort Collins, Colorado home.

Since the door on the balloon was unlocked, it's possible the boy had fallen out, Martinez said.

The balloon appeared to be a saucer-shaped, Mylar-coated helium balloon, similar to a party balloon. The craft was drifting eastward, authorities said. Watch the balloon float thousands of feet over Colorado »

The helium balloon was tethered to the boy's family home, the Larimer County Sheriff's Department said. The boy got into the craft Thursday morning and undid the rope anchoring it.

The department said the dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high.

"The structure at the bottom of the balloon that the boy is in is made of extremely thin plywood and won't withstand any kind of a crash at all," said Erik Nilsson, Larimer County emergency manager, according to CNN affiliate KMGH.

A dispatcher received a call Thursday morning, and emergency services personnel were contacted, Larimer County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Kathy Davis said.

A balloon company has been contacted and several media outlets offered to help track the balloon with their helicopters, Davis said.

"We're trying to determine the best course of action," Davis said. "This is a first and we'll do what we need to do."

Authorities said police cars were tracking the balloon, which was believed to be drifting about 8,000 feet off the ground. The FAA was notifying planes in the area, said Mike Fergus, agency spokesman in the Mountain Region.

They are "preventing air conflicts" by letting aircraft know of the location of the balloon and keeping the airspace free.

Cpl. Eric Wynn of the Colorado State Patrol told CNN, "At this point I think they're trying to evaluate the safest way to get that balloon down."

"I think our involvement at this point is we have officers on the ground."

According to Wynn, authorities are worried about where the balloon could safely land, avoiding buildings and power lines.

Denver Rolla · 2009年10月15日

turns out he wasn't in the balloon at all

MovieSTAR · 2009年10月15日

the parents were outside when the baloon took off....so why didnt they shoot it down before it go to high?

DaCubanSkillz · 2009年10月15日

it was full of helium so shooting it wouldn't have been smart. Plus since the compartment was made of thin plywood, the kid would have been serverly injured. apparently by the time the parents saw it take off it was too late. Now its time to determine when and where he fell out.

MovieSTAR · 2009年10月15日

or if he was even in there to begin with..

DeebsTundra · 2009年10月15日

He wasn't in there. He was found in the attic. So tired of this story already.

DaCubanSkillz · 2009年10月15日

Little kid was scared as shit. They found him in a box in the attic..lol.

e_andree · 2009年10月15日

reading fail, lol

MovieSTAR · 2009年10月15日

publicity stunt. parents were on wife swap...gotta be publicity

e_andree · 2009年10月15日

MovieSTAR said: ↑

publicity stunt. parents were on wife swap...gotta be publicity

surely just a coincidence....and why would they want publicity? they were criticized in that episode (which aired in March btw)

MovieSTAR · 2009年10月15日

e_andree said: ↑

surely just a coincidence....and why would they want publicity? they were criticized in that episode (which aired in March btw)

why wouldnt they at least look for the kid before calling the national guard and all the new agencies they can think of?

e_andree · 2009年10月15日

MovieSTAR said: ↑

why wouldnt they at least look for the kid before calling the national guard and all the new agencies they can think of?

Thats irrelevant to your statement

MovieSTAR · 2009年10月16日

e_andree said: ↑

Thats irrelevant to your statement

not really...the brother said the balloon was taking off...parents see it as an opportunity to get publicity. dont even look fro their other son at their own place. do you believe everything a 6yr old tells you? the dad is a failed reporter for cnn...and i didnt read up on the mom..but it just sounded like a publicity stunt.

GSE21tuner · 2009年10月16日

Finally saw this on the news tonight. I just LOLed.

e_andree · 2009年10月16日

agree to disagree i guess

I take back all of my skepticism.....

Cuztomrollaz98 · 2009年10月16日

Oh yea this made top news all damn day yesterday here lol..... I thought it was funny as hell when the kid wasn't there and they found him in the attic lol

MovieSTAR · 2009年10月18日

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091018/ap_on_re_us/us_balloon_boy

kinda funny really

EDIT: hyperlink wasnt working

DeebsTundra · 2009年10月19日

Charges being filed on the family for being a hoax.

GSE21tuner · 2009年10月19日

The kid let slip during the interviewing that mommy was planning for a publicity stunt. lol

shubert_ae102 · 2009年10月20日

it was an attention getter publicity stunt

MovieSTAR · 2009年10月20日

first to call it. BAM

JspeXAE102 · 2009年10月20日

hope the parents get arrested, jailed and fined big!

GSE21tuner · 2009年10月20日

They're getting sued. It was all over the news. Let's just wait it out and see what happens.

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