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Texrat 2009-10-15 19:30
Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
...or may have fallen out. Scary...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/col...oon/index.html

:(

Lord Raiden 2009-10-15 19:33
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Yeah, heard about that. Hopefully he's still inside and safe.

Hogwash 2009-10-15 19:34
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
I LOL'd out loud

I know...I'm going to hell....

Hogwash 2009-10-15 19:36
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Going to be a mite chilly at 7000 feet in Colorado at this time of year

ysss 2009-10-15 19:38
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
I'm looking for the 'smite' button here..

Texrat 2009-10-15 19:42
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hogwash (Post 347647)
I LOL'd out loud

I know...I'm going to hell....
It looks like he fell out.

I could not imagine laughing...

ysss 2009-10-15 19:44
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
It has landed, and no one was on board =(

joshv06 2009-10-15 19:53
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Yeah, I'm watching it from CNN right now. Hogwash.... seriously.

Hogwash 2009-10-15 19:57
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Hindsight is 20/20

Texrat 2009-10-15 20:00
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hogwash (Post 347692)
Hindsight is 20/20
Truly, I fail to see that as relevant in a situation like this. I'm a jokester, too-- I guess we have different thresholds.

Hogwash 2009-10-15 20:03
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Seriously....who has a 20 foot silver balloon tethered to their house. Little Timmy climbs on board and flies away....that's some surreal humor there. Yeah, I guess I've got a pretty dark sense of humor at times.

I hope some miracle happens and the kid's OK, of course...

nuknuk 2009-10-15 20:04
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Only in the good ol usa..............

Hogwash 2009-10-15 20:06
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Yeah....in the UK the Balloon Union still wouldn't have issued a permit and the damn thing would never float anyway.

bocaJ 2009-10-15 20:06
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Had the boy gotten safely out of the balloon, I would have been with Hogwash chuckling about this. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he got carried away with optimism.

I'm sure our thoughts are with the family in hope for some sort of happy ending.

Hogwash 2009-10-15 20:08
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by bocaJ (Post 347709)
Had the boy gotten safely out of the balloon, I would have been with Hogwash chuckling about this. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he got carried away with optimism.
At the time I posted that, nobody knew what had happened...the surreal situation kinda tickled me though. I'm not going to feel guilty about it - absent mens rea and all that ;)

Quote:
I'm sure our thoughts are with the family in hope for some sort of happy ending.
You bet

nuknuk 2009-10-15 20:08
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
I blame all that beefjerky stuff myself i mean build your own hotair balloon come on

Hogwash 2009-10-15 20:09
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
And all those jellied eels gave you morris dancing.

We win.

ColdFusion 2009-10-15 20:11
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Cool balloon, looks like an UFO!

nuknuk 2009-10-15 20:12
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Yaw down eat dem tings downere in d northwest blackpudding ya no

Hogwash 2009-10-15 20:14
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
How would Magyver have survived that?

Using his belt buckle prong to poke a small hole in the balloon and allowing small amounts of helium to escape, slowly lowering him to the ground.

nuknuk 2009-10-15 20:17
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
The kids ok fill your boots and read ere http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread510790/pg1

ysss 2009-10-15 20:17
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
The blatant disregard of human lives here is rather offensive, if I may say so.

@nuknuk: no, he's just not in the balloon when they found it.
the local sheriff's dept there is carrying out ground search now.

Texrat 2009-10-15 20:23
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nuknuk (Post 347730)
The kids ok fill your boots and read ere http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread510790/pg1
I see nothing on that page proving he's ok-- in fact The Weather Channel says the Sherrif's department is still searching for him....

Satz 2009-10-15 20:27
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7IuxUCE1Bc

http://www.channelsurfing.net/watch-cnn.html

Hogwash 2009-10-15 20:27
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ysss (Post 347731)
The blatant disregard of human lives here is rather offensive, if I may say so.
Clearly you're having your period.

NvyUs 2009-10-15 20:31
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
i just saw on BNO that the balloon as landed and the little kid was not on it, they think he fell out sadly.

nilchak 2009-10-15 20:32
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hogwash (Post 347748)
Clearly you're having your period.
No, maybe you are having your testosterone going wild ... and getting thrills and laughs off people misfortunes.

Edit :
I don't see how a boy falling off a balloon is dark humour.

penguinbait 2009-10-15 20:34
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
CNN reporting the boy was likely never onboard

nuknuk 2009-10-15 20:35
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nilchak (Post 347753)
No, maybe you are having your testosterone going wild ... and getting thrills and laughs off people misfortunes.
I 2nd that ;)

geneven 2009-10-15 20:39
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Hopefully, this is a kid's prank. I can imagine the kid reporting this having the story get away from him like a high-flying baloon and the missing kid appearing from the neighbor's house.

Hogwash 2009-10-15 20:39
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by nilchak (Post 347753)
No, maybe you are having your testosterone going wild ... and getting thrills and laughs off people misfortunes.

Edit :
I don't see how a boy falling off a balloon is dark humour.
You should get checked for endometriosis too

penguinbait 2009-10-15 20:41
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Its all Hogwash!

overfloat 2009-10-15 20:46
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
If you don't want dark humor, don't read what reddit has to say about it.... http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments...omewhere_over/

nilchak 2009-10-15 20:47
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hogwash (Post 347760)
You should get checked for endometriosis too
I think you got Rectal Prolapse .. check that thing protruding out your back side (or was it your mouth which happens to be there - I forget) :p

Hogwash 2009-10-15 20:48
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Maybe he was dicking around with the mooring at it got loose, so he ran and hid in fear of the ***-whuppin' he'd get, and now cannot move because his pants are so full of crap.

Maybe he was trying to send the balloon to Finland to collect our N900s?

Hogwash 2009-10-15 20:52
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by overfloat (Post 347766)
If you don't want dark humor, don't read what reddit has to say about it.... http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments...omewhere_over/
I peed a little bit

Texrat 2009-10-15 21:00
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
I'm really regretting originating this thread.

thecursedfly 2009-10-15 21:03
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
personally I love dark humour, 4chan, cyanide & happiness and all that unpolitically correct stuff... :B

Hogwash 2009-10-15 21:07
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 347787)
I'm really regretting originating this thread.
Not as much as Falcon the Wonder Boy

overfloat 2009-10-15 21:07
Re: Breaking news: 6 year old boy may be in runaway experimental balloon
 
I mean.... yes it's tragic if something happened to the kid, I'm hoping it was all an elaborate hoax...

But this was one of Walter Cronkite's main complaints about the modern press. Everyone jumps to conclusions before checking the facts.


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