Balloon boy!

[Distorted Stu]

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

Boy, aged six climbs into experimental balloon craft and flys for fucking miles. Just crashed landed now with no boy inside the balloon. Police fear he may of fell out during the flight.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

uh-oh. that can't be good.
unless that boy was secretly some kind of evil villain. but I doubt it.

damn... I feel sorry for his parents... and him.
and any other family.

 

[Armored Prayer]

Wow that sucks.

Why would they let a 6 year old operate an experimental balloon craft?

 

[VeX1le]

ow... wait how did it float while he's INSIDE the balloon. how big is it?

 

[Distorted Stu]

Rumor says he was never inside. Also his parents have been on TV a number of times, could be an act for attention.

 

[Internet Kraken]

That's......sad.

Now I can't get the mental image of a 6 year old boy falling to his death out of my mind.

 

[QuirkyTambourine]

Yeah thanks for giving me such a downer, depressing story to say the least. I hope that it's just a publicity stunt by his parents and nothing more

...I'm telling myself that he went to Narnia

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Sorry to hear that. Great now I'm depressed.

Why the hell would you leave your experimental thing just lieing there is beyond me.

 

[DazZ.]

I don't think he was in it, find out soon though but my guess he is he wasn't.

Weird story, wonder how high it got.

7000ft is what most sources I've read have said, but they are all American sources so I don't know if they are credible. (As I'm not American)

 

[scotth266]

Yet again, bad parenting and a general lack of common sense results in the suffering of the children.

 

[Sir Broccoli]

This topic title is way too happy. I was expecting a topic about some goofy NES game, not a topic about a six-year-old missing.

 

[Drew Chapman]

This topic title is way too happy. I was expecting a topic about some goofy NES game, not a topic about a six-year-old missing.

I lol'd.

Poor kid though. I personally don't feel like he was even in the balloon, though.

 

[Skeleon]

Wow, that's sad.
I hope he got off safely somewhere.

 

[Drew Chapman]

Balloon Boy is ok. They ended up finding him in a box... in their attic.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Yes, he's quite alright. Which is fantastic news, imagine what would have happened if he had climbed in and fallen out, that would have been an awful, awful situation.