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6 Year Old Trapped in Parent's Experimental Balloon
- Thread starter BarrettRC8
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My wife and I joke all the time about being "That Family on CNN" when our 3 year-old and 1 year-old get into shenanigans.
I.E. "Did you lock the front door? We don't want to be that family on CNN whose 3 year-old wandered 5 miles down the road."
These people are "that family"
I.E. "Did you lock the front door? We don't want to be that family on CNN whose 3 year-old wandered 5 miles down the road."
These people are "that family"
FlyingOnFumes
Nobel WAR Prize Aspirant
"You told me to do it for the show!" on Larry King Live.... Anyone else hear about this being a possible set up?
Fucking colorado....sometimes people here amaze the hell out of me. I'm calling shenanigans on that thing being able to hold a 6 year old child safely. I'm sorry, I've worked with small weather balloons and such in my engineering classes and I REALLY don't think that would safely hold that child.
Yeah. What a bunch of attention whores.
Yea I agree they are attention whores, but reality TV gives families like that a forum that they wouldn't have had when I was growing up. Back then they would have just been known around the neighborhood as the crazy Heens' and Falcon would have grown up to be a Naval Aviator.
Am I the only one who made their own black powder from saltpeter, charcoal and sulfur I bought at the local drug store? Hell I even played un-supervised in the woods from dawn to dusk. By the time I was 12 I never left the house for the woods without my .410.
I weep....yada yada
Edited to say the more I read the more I think attention whores doesn't come close to describing these people. They damn sure need to pay for this free publicity
If it turns out this was some kind of stunt (even though it would probably be hard to prove), these fucks should be held financially liable for the various efforts that went into tracking this thing. To think that they could have attempted a risky airborne helo rescue with servicemen putting their lives at risk for nothing makes my blood boil.
Brett
If it was indeed all orchestrated by the family, I hope they have to pay back every penny spent on rescue efforts, and some hefty fines for filing a false police report, or whatever else they can nail them on.
I just saw that Inside Edition is doing a story on it tonight...should be a bit interesting. There are a alot of pissed off people around colorado talking about how it was a hoax.
Attention whore confirmed --> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,567640,00.html?test=latestnews
FlyingOnFumes
Nobel WAR Prize Aspirant
Just saw the news covering this. That balloon didn't look all that big..... Maybe 20 feet across? I'm no engineer/math nerd but that doesn't seem big enough to lift a six year old who probably weighs about 50-60 pounds. Can anyone figure out if it's even possible?
FlyingOnFumes
Nobel WAR Prize Aspirant
According to the Sheriff, they contacted a professor of aeronautical engineering at the local university in Colorado during the flight to determine how much weight the balloon could support. The numbers they came up with were that the helium filled balloon could in fact carry approximately up to 80 pounds and, according to the news conference, Falcon the Kid weighed 37 lbs. I wonder how much Bill the Goat weighs....
Clux4
Banned
But was it adequately constructed? All the same, they should pay. This is just another case of careless parenting. They should pay and maybe they will learn a lesson.