And make sure you put helium in it when you finish.

[Cinder & Smoke]

Balloon is DOWN (softly) and searched - NO Kid on board!

Live Coverage at >>>

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540...87392#22887392

[pomtzu]

They now don't know if he was even in it to start with..

Hopefully he wasn't.

[RICHARD]

Something is really hinky about this story.


If the structure is open inside, like a hot air balloon? That kid would have been exposed to the helium and he would have been in a little trouble from the start.

If the kid did fall, this is a real tragedy, but something doesn't sit right with me.....

[pomtzu]

Something is really hinky about this story.


If the structure is open inside, like a hot air balloon? That kid would have been exposed to the helium and he would have been in a little trouble from the start.

If the kid did fall, this is a real tragedy, but something doesn't sit right with me.....

It's not open, and there was a box/basket attached to bottom when it took off, but not there when it landed. They're speculating that it fell off with the boy in it.

[Freedom]

Sheriff's dept is searching for the child. Watchers saw something fall from the balloon at one point in its 42 mile trip. Praying it wasn't the boy.

[pomtzu]

CNN is reporting now that the boy's brothers saw him climb into the box.

[RICHARD]

Thanks for the info.....

what a tragedy.

[CountryWolf07]

[pomtzu]

Something is really hinky about this story.

Looks and smells pretty fishy now.

Speculation is that it was a publicity stunt of some kind, and the parents were in on it. On Larry King last night, the boy said he "did it for the show". They were on GMA this morning too, and the father just isn't acting like someone who went thru such a traumatic experience, and said he's appalled that people think it was a hoax. He just acted strange, to say the least.

The family qualifies as "attention seekers" - been on Wife Swap twice. They are facing a whole lot of questions by the authorities.

I hope they have to pay the cost of yesterday's fiasco if it proves that it was indeed a hoax. Just putting that Black Hawk in the air is a costly venture, not to mention all the rest of what transpired.

[aTailOf2Kitties]

This song popped into my head yesterday and just won't leave. Thanks, Balloon Boy. (yeah I know he ended up being at home but this song invaded my mind when everyone was still looking for him)


LEARNING TO FLY by Tom Petty:

Well I started out down a dirty road
Started out all alone
And the sun went down as I crossed the hill
The town lit up the world got still

Im learning to fly but I aint got wings
Comin down is the hardest thing

Well the good old days may not return
And the rocks might melt, and the sea may burn

Im learning to fly but I aint got wings
Comin down is the hardest thing

Well some say life will beat you down
Break your heart, steal your crown
So I started out for God knows where
But I guess Ill know when I get there

Im learning to fly around the clouds
But what goes up must come down

Im learning to fly but I aint got wings
Comin down is the hardest thing
Im learning to fly around the clouds
But what goes up must come down

Im learning to fly
Im learning to fly

[Catherinedana]

I can't come back! I don't know how it works! Good-bye folks!

[Pembroke_Corgi]

This was all over the news yesterday as it was local- I'm glad the little boy is ok, but it does seem a bit weird that a boy that young could hide for so long undetected, or even get into the attic himself (do new homes even have walk-up attics?). I feel a bit sorry for the boy either way- if he's really that scared of his dad, I don't think that's normal.

I only watched one clip this morning, but the father was just talking about his experiments, and saying the whole family chased dust storms, etc. Maybe he just doesn't know how to respond to all the attention, but it almost seems like he was fishing around for some funding for his dumb experiments.

[lvpets2002]

Oh I so aggree on this.. The adventure was flakey all along.. I just cant see people putting people thru stuff like this just for attention.. Oh yes they still have a lot of explaining to do for sure..

Looks and smells pretty fishy now.

Speculation is that it was a publicity stunt of some kind, and the parents were in on it. On Larry King last night, the boy said he "did it for the show". They were on GMA this morning too, and the father just isn't acting like someone who went thru such a traumatic experience, and said he's appalled that people think it was a hoax. He just acted strange, to say the least.

The family qualifies as "attention seekers" - been on Wife Swap twice. They are facing a whole lot of questions by the authorities.

I hope they have to pay the cost of yesterday's fiasco if it proves that it was indeed a hoax. Just putting that Black Hawk in the air is a costly venture, not to mention all the rest of what transpired.

[Taz_Zoee]

I completely agree that this was a huge publicity stunt. And I hope they have to pay for all that happened.

I saw one thing where Falcon was talking and he said something about Shaggy. Bruce asked me...Shaggy?? I said, it's probably his brothers name. Not sure if I was right. Yeah, definitely attention seekers when you name your children Shaggy and Falcon.

[RICHARD]

Oh,
I do know how it is here in Cah lee fuh nee ah!

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"Learning To Fly"
Pink Floyd

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
Can I escape this irresistible grasp?
Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted Just an earth-bound misfit, I

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone
A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try

Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I
Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, A state of bliss
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

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Shaggy, Falcon and Scooby Doo?

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I really want to know how this was slanted by the media overseas!!!

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Of course he had to jump in the balloon.

Imagine what child protective services would say if you put the kid in Ruby Red Slippers.........

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I do have to say one thing.

If anything, the peeps who chased the balloon down are thankful for a little excitement and a change to their usual chasing down of cats in trees, calls to Grandma's house because she stood up too quickly and little Thelma (Yes we are doing a Scooby Doo thread--Shaggy?) getting her head stuck in the child gate between the kitchen and wash room......

It probably took a few hours off their lives, but we do have a pretty good system of first responders here in the States.


LOLOLOLOL,

I could see someplace like Soviets scrambling MIGs to shoot the little Bees turd down.

Does anyone remember the people that made a balloon to get over the Berlin Wall?