AP: A 6-year-old boy climbed into a hot-air balloon aircraft and floated away Thursday, forcing officials to scramble to figure out how to rescue the boy.

Larimer County sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella says the device, which is shaped like a flying saucer, has 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. :shocked:


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it has landed but the boy isn't on it and they are searching to see if he fell out along the way.

I’m beginning to have serious doubts about this whole deal. Once I saw the balloon on the ground next to the rescue workers, it didn’t appear to me that the thing was big enough to have possibly lifted a six-year-old boy off the ground. I don’t think he fell out because I don’t believe he was ever on board to begin with. Which still begs the question, where the heck is he?? :unsure:

I also noticed that the rescue workers weren't in any particular hurry to get inside the thing once it landed, which tells me they already knew that he wasn't on board. They mostly seemed concerned with making sure the silly thing wouldn't take off again. What do they know that they aren't telling us? :unsure:

Weird. :blink:

Breaking news...

Balloon boy was just found hiding in the garage. Somebody's gonna be so grounded! :rolleyes:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33330516/ns/us...life/?GT1=43001

The little son of a bitch. Put him in reform school till he turns 18 , then send him to state prison for 10 yrs. No he can come to Texas, I can hit him some fly balls in this feild I know that has open/ uncapped gas wells.Gee officer, I don't know, he was there a minute ago :angry:

Little fucktward!!! :realmad:

it was a scam, when they questioned him they asked why didn't you come out when we called your name and he said it was part of the show.

Show ???? What fricken show?? You mean like when Spanky and Alfalfa put on a show for the gang?? Screw that shit, I'd like to put him and his folks up for the weekend at the Bates Motel !!!

Let’s think about this for a second. The balloon was described in one report as being 7 ft. tall. The pictures I saw of it on the ground with the rescue workers gave me the impression that it was anywhere from 20 – 30 feet in diameter. We’ll call it 30 ft. just to give it every benefit of a doubt. That means it could hold approximately 660 cubit feet of helium (in actuality it almost certainly held quite a bit less, but I’m being generous). It takes 16 cu. ft. of helium to lift 1 pound. Therefore, the most it could possibly lift would be about 41 pounds. Subtract from that total the weight of the craft itself, and this thing was lucky to get off the ground on its own. No way it could have lifted a newborn infant, let alone a small boy. The dad – described as an amateur scientist – would have known all this perfectly well. There couldn’t have been a doubt in his mind that his son wasn’t onboard. It simply wasn’t possible.

This was nothing more than theater. At the very least, he should be made to pay for the vast expenditure of taxpayer’s dollars involved in this pointless ‘rescue’. :angry:

I love Merideth Vierra, I would eat her like a rat eats cheese. She's got a dark side. Here she is interviewing the balloon kid's dad. Balloon kid gets sick and pukes on the Today Show. The kid really blows chunks and it's 30 seconds away from a total barf-a-rama on national t.v. The dad flinches at the phlegm, and his brother is getting a residual puke reaction and there's mama catching the chunder in a tupper ware dish. And there's my babe Merideth, you can see it,, she's a hair away from breaking into fits of laughter. I love that woman. Here it is, chunks on the TODAY SHOW !!!!

balloon boy is going to catch some charges.

'Balloon boy' mom, Mayumi Heene, admitted to cops it was hoax


The mother of the 6-year-old boy once feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon admitted the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents released Friday.

Mayumi Heene told sheriff’s deputies that she and her husband Richard “knew all along that Falcon was hiding in the residence” in Fort Collins, according to an affidavit used to get a search warrant for the home.

She allegedly told investigators the incident was a hoax meant to make them more marketable to the media.

“Mayumi described that she and Richard Heene devised this hoax approximately two weeks earlier.... She and Richard had instructed their three children to lie to authorities as well as the media regarding this hoax,” the affidavit said.

Richard Heene has denied a hoax. His lawyer, David Lane, said Friday he is waiting to see the evidence in the case.

“Allegations are cheap,” Lane said.

Mayumi Heene’s lawyer, Lee Christian, was traveling and didn’t immediately respond to messages left with his office.

Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden has said he will recommend charges against the Heenes including conspiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, making a false report to authorities, and attempting to influence a public servant. The most serious charges are felonies and carry a maximum sentence of six years in prison.

Alderden said authorities also would be seeking restitution for the costs of the balloon chase, though he didn’t provide a figure.

His office has said it will likely be next week before it forwards its findings to prosecutors to decide on charges.



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2..._documents.html

No wonder the kid puked on the Today Show. If you can take a kid away from parents because the parents name him Adolf Hitler. They can remove the kids for this. Shame on em for making them lie.

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