BREAKING NEWS - Boy adrift in homemade air balloon

6-Year-Old Boy Floats Away in Balloon




FORT COLLINS, Colo. (Oct. 14) -- A 6-year-old boy climbed into a homemade balloon aircraft before it floated away Thursday, forcing officials to scramble to rescue the boy.
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The bizarre scene played out live on television and prompted fears that the flying saucer-shaped balloon would crash with the young child inside. The balloon rotated slowly in the wind, tipping precariously at times.
CNN was reporting that the boy may have fallen out of the balloon as it went airborne.
Cathy Davis of the Larimer County Sheriff's Department told CNN the balloon was owned by the boy's parents.
"We'll just have to respond the best we can," Davis said. "This is a first and we'll do what we need to do."
The Colorado Army National Guard was preparing to launch an OH-58 Kiowa helicopter to help in the response effort, said Capt. Michael Odgers. It wasn't immediately clear what role the helicopter would play.
FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said the agency has been notified and it was unclear whether traffic controllers had picked it up on radar.
Larimer County sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella said the device had 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.
"We were sitting eating, out looking where they normally shoot off hot air balloons. My husband said he saw something. It went over our rooftop. Then we saw the big round balloonish thing, it was spinning," said neighbor Lisa Eklund.
Additional details about the child and the balloon were not immediately available.
"By the time I saw it, it traveled pretty fast," Eklund said.

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so the ballon landed but where did the kids go????

 

They don't know where the kid is. This family was in Wife Swap. The father is some kind of scientist.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/falcon-heene-balloon-boy_n_322736.html

 

and the dad is a storm chaser that flew into a huricane

 

They found the little shit in the garage hiding in a box!!!!!!:mad:

 

HAHA lil Ba$tard, I'm not sure if I would whip him or laugh my butt off.

 

LOL..that cracked me up...

Yep, the little buggar was found hiding out.....

 

I watched him live on Larry King and he said "I did it for the show." I feel they are going to be charged and fined for all the time and money's spent on this "rescue." Maybe just for publicity....

 

WOW ! I would hug him, kiss him and then beat his little a$$!

 

that kid needs a serious ass whoopin

 

the humiliation of BEING arrested is part of the punishment. Bet money, if those kids see that happen they'll be less inclined to pull a stunt like that when they get grown. Unless they are just dumb.

 

thank God we found the balloon boy..thought MJ was ordering take out from heaven!

 

i got that in a text yesterday lmao