El Guapo wrote:Can they bill the parents for the rescue effort?
I hear the kid was already grounded.
What did Beyonce say to the parents of the 6 year old kid that was thought to have flown away in a balloon?'
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Throw in some estimation (which is the real reason why engineers get paid so well) and give me a Eureka!esque knowledge of buoyancy, and that's it.
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It's amazing that the 24 hour news networks that showed this balloon for a couple of hours while talking nonsense throughout never thought to work out what the Meal did.
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lol, the fart 2 seconds after he said it was probably his dad crapping his pants.
I think the follow-up is even more damning. Lots of squirming by Daddy when they ask him to ask Falcon to clarify the statement, he eventually grabs onto being "appalled" at the line of questioning and refuses to ask him.
Lee wrote:It's amazing that the 24 hour news networks that showed this balloon for a couple of hours while talking nonsense throughout never thought to work out what the Meal did.
Math is hard.
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Famewhores. Which was actually what I was thinking as the story was taking place, but didn't post it here in case the story ended more tragically than it did.
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lol, the fart 2 seconds after he said it was probably his dad crapping his pants.
I think the follow-up is even more damning. Lots of squirming by Daddy when they ask him to ask Falcon to clarify the statement, he eventually grabs onto being "appalled" at the line of questioning and refuses to ask him.
LOL, what a douche.
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$iljanus wrote:After watching the video I wonder if the son is just an overindulged snot who now wants to cause his parents alot of grief just to screw with them.
A six year old tends to think in very literal, direct terms. I doubt he would be able to think up a one-liner with the kind of implications that had in order to discredit his parents to the world. It is too subtle.
Good grief... this morning on Good Morning America they interviewed the family (don't see it on Youtube yet) and besides the father looking like a complete tool Falcon, when asked why he said what he did on Larry King starts feeling nauseous and gets up. The mother goes with and they're off camera but still have their mics on and throughout the rest of the interview you can hear the kid retching.
Let me preface that I haven't followed all that closely, but.... a 6 year old can be pretty easily confused. I doubt, for example, that he could tell the difference between a news camera crew and a "Wife Swap" camera crew - all the same to him.
While it looks bad, it may not be bad, if that makes sense.
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There is now video of the balloon being released. You can obviously tell nothing like a 50 pound kid could be in it. No basket either. The father hilariously overreacts when it starts to float away. Didn't he call the news stations to report the incident?
I think all the people that worked on trying to rescue the boy should get a free punch on that idiot. Then charge him with false reporting, fraud, etc. Then make him pay back all the money it cost the state yesterday.
Ninyu wrote:There is now video of the balloon being released. You can obviously tell nothing like a 50 pound kid could be in it. No basket either. The father hilariously overreacts when it starts to float away. Didn't he call the news stations to report the incident?
Link?
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Ninyu wrote:There is now video of the balloon being released. You can obviously tell nothing like a 50 pound kid could be in it. No basket either. The father hilariously overreacts when it starts to float away. Didn't he call the news stations to report the incident?
Link?
It's on CNN so it's kind of hard to link to. But just go to CNN.com, I think it's right on the front page.
Ninyu wrote:There is now video of the balloon being released. You can obviously tell nothing like a 50 pound kid could be in it. No basket either. The father hilariously overreacts when it starts to float away. Didn't he call the news stations to report the incident?
Link?
It's on CNN so it's kind of hard to link to. But just go to CNN.com, I think it's right on the front page.
New York times wrote:When the balloon lifted off, Mr. Heene said his 10-year-old son, Bradford, told him that Falcon could be inside. The family looked for him around the house, and when they could not immediately find him, Mr. Heene said, he thought Bradford might be right. He then called the authorities — and the local NBC affiliate.
Who the @$!$%# would call the local TV station in a real situation like this?
Isgrimnur wrote:Just for The Meal: Someone did the math.
The lifting capacity of helium, at standard atmosphere, is 28.2 grams per cubic foot.
Who quotes lifting capacity in grams per cubic foot. CONSISTENCY FAIL!
(They came up with pretty close numbers to mine. I hadn't read about the balloon closely enough to understand what was supposed to be in the nacelle, and I figured the mylar material of the balloon was pretty negligible in weight.)
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One theory is: The guy is pissed that he lost his balloon. Knows he can't track it/chase it effectively and really wants it back. Decides to make up the bullshit story to get the media to do the work for him.
I think the guy seems crazy enough that it could be plausible.
Unagi wrote:Parents were desprate to get back on TV.
sickening.
-end of story.
Seems like the most likely story at this point.
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While the balloon was in the air, the sheriff's department reached out to a university professor who determined that a balloon of that size could probably handle a payload of about 80 pounds, Alderden said. Falcon weighs about 37 pounds.
The Heenes say that when they couldn't find Falcon, they called the Federal Aviation Administration, then a local TV station with a news helicopter, and then dialed 911.
I'd be printing up invoices for them if I were the ANG, FAA, and the police.
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There's now another scientist claiming that he had previously worked with the father in this story to draw up plans for a media-grabbing hoax using a weather balloon. Via Gawker.
