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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: tombogan03884 on October 15, 2009, 02:15:50 PM
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_boy_in_balloon
6-year-old boy floats away in balloon
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – A 6-year-old boy climbed into a homemade balloon aircraft in Colorado and floated away Thursday, forcing officials to scramble to figure out how to rescue the boy as the balloon hurtled through the air.
The bizarre scene played out live on television and prompted fears that the flying saucer-shaped balloon would crash with the young child inside. The balloon rotated slowly in the wind, tipping precariously at times.
FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said 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 said the device had 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.
"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.
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Following it on the local radio now!!
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Watching on FoxNews right now.... :o :o :o
Just hit the ground.
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Now they're saying there's no one in the thing.
So now they have a kid in hiding.
Saying there are reports of something having fell out before it landed.
And, the way it is built, if he had been in there he would have died from lack of oxygen.
Bane, go check on it.......... ;)
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Now they're saying there's no one in the thing.
Knew it as soon as I saw it..... just didnt look like it would be big enough to get a kid off the ground...... not to mention this was all based on the fact that a kid said he was in there
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Knew it as soon as I saw it..... just didnt look like it would be big enough to get a kid off the ground...... not to mention this was all based on the fact that a kid said he was in there
I figure (hope) he's hiding in a neighbor's back yard or storage building (safe) ....scared for the ass-whipping he thinks he's gonna get from his daddy.
The family must be sick with worry, though.
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hehehehe:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/falcon-heene-balloon-boy_n_322736.html
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hehehehe:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/falcon-heene-balloon-boy_n_322736.html
TV Loons?
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ITS BULL SHIT, can you not see that. get a grip.
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ITS BULL SHIT, can you not see that. get a grip.
Sounds like someone has his drawers on backwards today. :o
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Sounded like the results of something I've been thinking of for 45 years or so ;D
And I really only see one person here who should, "get a grip". ::)
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When I first saw this on the news, I wondered which of you idiots let your tin foil hat blow away.
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Hiding in a box in the attic above the garage.................
Now who'da thunk it?
8)
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And cause Daddy yelled???? :o
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I liked it better when we thought the kid might be at 10,000 feet.
It was a nice reminder of childhood dreams.
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Talking to Merideth this morning made the kid sick, he puked on LIVE television!
too funny... ;D
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Talking to Merideth this morning made the kid sick, he puked on LIVE television!
too funny... ;D
I mighta had the same results. :-X :-X
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I mighta had the same results. :-X :-X
PegLeg.....ya ever notice (not that I watch the show) that the only attractive member of "The View" is a Republican?
Just sayin'!!!! ;)
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PegLeg.....ya ever notice (not that I watch the show) that the only attractive member of "The View" is a Republican?
Just sayin'!!!! ;)
http://humor.beecy.net/politics/politicalwomen/
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PegLeg.....ya ever notice (not that I watch the show) that the only attractive member of "The View" is a Republican?
Just sayin'!!!! ;)
You sexist pig!
;D
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Jaba da Hut is a Democrat?
I thought he was a capitalist?
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A picture is worth a 1000 barf-bags...... :-X :-X :-X :-\