Boy Floats Away In Balloon

turn on CNN

OMG.

blame pixar

That CNN weatherman is doing some scaremongering shit, suggesting there's a hypoxia risk at 7000 feet.

Holy shit!

blame pixar

Blame that f---g parent/guardian that left the child unattended in a hot air balloon.

That kid is either going to be incredibly dead or incredibly famous.

yeah i guess a 6 year old didn't build that thing himself xp

The way that thing is pitching and rotating and sometimes turning up on its side, that kid must be getting thrown around pretty bad.

gotta be fuckin cold as shit up there at the moment.

this is horrible

I wish Rick Sanchez was in that thing instead of that kid.

:(

is it dropping?

:( :(

god damn that thing is moving fast.. a helicopter would wreck it... hang glider????

man this is fucked up

is it too soon to ask what's on his ipod

damn it is fast

a helicopter would wreck it yes but what about some kind of catching device lowered from the chopper

I got lost in a department store for half an hour when I was six and I still remember how scared I was. This poor kid.

I am trying to figure out what exactly the dad was thinking with building this thing

http://i36.tinypic.com/25qw2dd.jpg

it would be awesome if the kid was totally hiding in the basement

The mylar + the kid can't weigh too much...helicoper seems like a bad idea...maybe a couple of ultralights coming up from behind with tailhooks.

I think the kid must be passed out by now or something. Hope he makes it.

is it going as fast as it looks or is it just the way its being filmed, I don't really have sound

The kid's name is Falcon?!

god damn it keeps flying sideways

fallin...

I mean sure every kid would love to have a UFO to play in, but it doesn't need to actually FLY

x-posts

it's fucked on one side, hence why it's dropping now. praying for that kid.

yo, people w CNN what is the deal w the rescue

lmao @ the video

That thing is about to starting dropping like a rock. Hope they have someone zooming over the with some kind of net or something...

Putting a helicopter above it sounds like guaranteed disaster.

i bet there's no one in it

that's just awful. feel no real need to watch the rest of this.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/t1wide.boy.balloon.02.kusa.jpg

Now they're interviewing a balloon expert called Gordon Boring. If this wasn't such an awful thing the names would make me chuckle.

it would be awesome if the kid was totally hiding in the basement

I pray this is what happened. I only read the CNN story. Any news outlets quoted the parents/guardiansa? (I assume not, but still . . . )

"Larimer County fire dispatchers are asking if a helicopter can use it's speaker to ask the boy if he has a valve to release helium."

The kid is 6. Are you kidding me?

tht poor kid must be terrified :(

do i see land guide ropes on this thing?

(not that they would be much use)

I had a quick look on the news but my kids are still up and I don't want them watching this live if it ends badly.

man how fast is that going?

yeah this seems destined to end in disaster. how long will cnn stick with this?

When you look at video of the balloon, I can't see any kind of an entry hole in it... So how did the kid get inside? I hope this is just some sort of a prank.

saying it's very possible the kid might have already fallen out.

Wind is around 30 mph, apparently.

it doesn't look to me like there's any separate compartment or even way to see out, much less breathe oxygen. :/

brit anchorlady on cnn is utterly useless

Damn, am I happy I am at work and not watching this. What a nightmare.

i'm watching the live feed on 9News out of Denver. Much better than CNN blowhards.

http://i34.tinypic.com/2dj8ifp.jpg

fox is more hung up on 'this is so weird' & had people who were saying well, eh it could float for a while but there's no immediate danger

this is like a South Park episode except it isn't funny

good to know that the boy might not be pleased with the flight at this point, mr boring

Huffington Post says the kid's parents were on Wife Swap.

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

filming ground rescue teams now, this is insane

there is no way that little convoy of trucks is going to be able to do much

the DC Comics-style cartoonishness is what makes it so horrible - definitely a good idea to keep yr kids away from the TV

Places like CNN and Fox News love this type of shit, despite the fact a kid is in grave danger. Reminds me of that song Dirty Laundry.

looks similar to the boy from Up!

Shit, they say they're going to switch off the live feed when he gets near the ground.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t131/tinacarr/alien-smoking-cannabis.jpg

damn at least save the kid from being squished live on telly.

praying for a miracle...

Yep.

sorry for compassion...

kid has watched too much Phineas & Ferb

Authorities say they know for sure the boy is still inside the aircraft's compartment.

this is pretty fucked

They do know for sure?

The father and son had apparently been working on the aircraft for some time.

"This sort of thing is normal for them," the neighbor told reporters who were gathered outside the Heene home in Fort Collins.

wtf?

Coming down now.

He's down

landed pretty slowly

that sort of looked soft landing please god

Well, so much for not showing the landing. Hope he's alive in there.

Holy shit, it came down soft as a feather!

oh damn

WOW

phew

it isn't unusual for fathers and sons to work on making shit. just usually it is like a tree house instead of a ufo that will kill your child after it gets windy.

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Phew what?

Is the boy alive?

Jesus the CNN woman is terrible

That was an incredible television moment for the ages, assuming the kid is not dead.

wow didn't expect a landing like that

they must know he's not inside

shit

so there's nobody in it?

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

cnn brit-lady: "i know what that boy must be going through. i flew in economy class once"

Nobody in there.

Yeah, they wouldn't act like that if he was still inside.

wtf

world sonned in father-son hoax!!!!

cnn brit-lady: "i know what that boy must be going through. i flew in economy class once"

If this is real I demand on-air live execution.

Oh I'm sure the cops will be real pleased if this was a prank

kid fell out early?

so if this kid fell out i can't imagine how they'd go about trying to track him down

I don't understand. This ordeal has been at least half-an-hour. Is it a confirmed, intentional hoax? If not, have authorities located the child?

Was he not inside because he was never inside or because he fell out?
xpxpxpxpxp

prank is the best anyone can hope for at this point

i bet there's no one in it

― am0n, Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:19 PM (20 minutes ago)

http://dontgosouth.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/misscleo.jpg

lol credulity

I'm sure it must've been a mistake, or a prank. Looked like there was no hole in the balloon for a kid to get in or fall out of.

sibling is only witness to see him enter the balloon.

It must've been early if he fell, how quickly were they able to get a visual on it?

xpost

Ooooooooookay

it would be awesome if the kid was totally hiding in the basement

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:15 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

note the timestamp, kreskin

he vaporized upon reentry

maybe it was elian gonzalez

authorities have already searched the home

So, reality TV dad hoaxer? Or did the kid fall out in mid-air?

They have a balloon expert on and they're asking him if the kid is probably dead, wtf

dope aircraft

If it's the kid playing a prank he's gonna get grounded for sure.

Sorry.

note the timestamp, kreskin

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:42 PM

7:15 PM

;)

also "it would be awesome.." is not a prediction. i win ;)

HAHA noodle

what authorities found inside the balloon

http://www.spldr.com/solarcamping/notnuke.jpg

kid is dead.

as in, really. he fell out.

where did you see that?!

shit. who's reporting that?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Granted I'm not watching this live, but if there were no hatches or openings (as others have pointed out), how exactly did he fall out?

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/dbcooper.jpg

christ is this true?

cnn is reporting a little cardboard door

Maybe he just climbed onto the body of the thing? Or there was some kind of basket that fell off early on?

msnbc.

there was a door. he probably fell out.

: (

I call bullshit. It's really a UFO and the balloon story is just a massive cover up.

i see no reports on msnbc

msnbc.com

sorry

msnbc are saying there may have been a second compartment that fell early

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWJXXgaYBo&feature=player_embedded

tho it is plausible that he untied the balloon and then ran away becuz he knew his parents would whup his ass.

And now we get to the "oh this family is a bunch of weirdos" portion of the game.

wouldn't the dad know??

we can hope xxp

msnbc.com just say no boy found in the balloon

table you said "he's dead. really." has msnbc reported that someone found his body?

xpost

there's a live video feed

The boy's father, Richard Heene, is an amateur scientist, according to a 2007 Denver Post article on weather chasers. He joined a retired TV weatherman, Scott Stevens, to form what a weather-research team they called The Science Detectives.

Having been unemployed for a large part of the last 7 months I've seen many many episodes of Wife Swap and sadly have to say that the parents (storm chasers iirc) were pretty nuts. :/

xpost to Tracre - it sounds like they think that's most likely but no certainty

Not the real Village People - dude you are able to see.. into the past!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWJXXgaYBo

xp PSYIENCE Detectives
http://www.thepsyiencedetectives.com/

falcon

hey I'm an hour behind on the west coast

fox still suspects it might be a hoax

http://i37.tinypic.com/20u8u1c.jpg

http://rochesterhills.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/250px-flat_stanley.jpg

Drudge spends a lot of his time thinking that. xp

this is cnn's top story? bombings in pakistan not sexy enough?

aw c'mon. "BOY IN A BALLOON OMG". we all did it.

#2 story on CNN: "Original KISS Drummer Beats Breast Cancer."

omg cnn now reporting the body was found in a field being eaten by wolves

kids in wells are passe

Boy found in South America wtf?

omg cnn now reporting the body was found in a field being eaten by wolves

Oh they are not.

#2 story on CNN: "Original KISS Drummer Beats Breast Cancer."

already posted btw:

KISS:C or D?

i hope the kid is hiding in one of his dad's presumably 28 storm shelters

comparing the bbc and cnn homepages is fun

This year's top Halloween costume, I'm guessing.

cnn now reporting the boy was found in a field eating wolves

too soon

wolf hunting season still a month away

MSNBC: A SECOND BALLOON HEADED FOR THE WHITEHOUSE HAS ALSO CRASHED

i don't believe there is a wolf

ur right, it's a pack of multiple wolves

their two sons were playing outside when the older boy saw the younger one climb in and the balloon fly away.

i mean...

OBAMA TO CONGRESS: WHERE IS THE BOY?

LIMBAUGH: THIS IS OBAMA'S AMERICA

i knew from the second i saw the first shot of that balloon in the air wolves were gonna figure into this somehow

airwolf?

their two sons were playing outside when the older boy saw the younger one climb in and the balloon fly away.

i mean...

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dad, falcon did it, serious

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/5600000/Knowing-Wallpaper-knowing-5640381-1024-768.jpg

Don't worry, the kid is safe. It's the rest of us who need to be worried

I am trying to figure out what exactly the dad was thinking with building this thing

Let's build this sucker so my son can climb in, fly away, be filmed by tons of cameras and then ends up dead.

OBAMA TO CONGRESS: WHERE IS THE BOY?

― am0n, Thursday, October 15, 2009 8:18 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

lmao

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alive scenarios:
1) brother has run away, possibly with an assist from his brother
2) kid lying in ditch somewhere with broken leg
3) hilarious prank

dead scenarios:
1) fell out and died
2) either the brother or the parents killed him and this is an elaborate cover up

#falconfail

Wisdom via Twitter:

RT @morgan_murphy: right now would be a great time for a politician to admit he fucks horses. It would get BURIED under this balloon story.

Wonder if he received a bail-out?

#balloonfail

#wifeswapfail

#failcon

it occurs to me that its quite unlikely that a 6 y/o could launch this thing himself particularly if he was inside it

ok, tbh, no matter what happens, this is my favorite story of the year

Btw - #balloonboy family has three boys. I'm having a 3rd boy. Scratching "expiramental balloon" off Chanukkah list now.

yes 'boy climbs in / balloon then just takes off' just seems too much a coincidence (would hope so)

two brothers, one dream, some helium

http://images.travelpod.com/users/thomaswguy/1.1222738140.falcon-and-the-snowman.jpg

My first thought on seeing the balloon was that it was too flimsy and deflated looking to actually hold the 40-50 pounds of a six year old.

Countdown to idiot legislation banning amateur balloon flights in 5... 4... 3...

How soon we forget:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters

http://ballooney.ytmnd.com/

REACT: What information do you wish me to tell [the airport] at this time as to your location and your difficulty?
Larry: Ah, the difficulty is, ah, this was an unauthorized balloon launch, and, uh, I know I'm in a federal airspace, and, uh, I'm sure my ground crew has alerted the proper authority. But, uh, just call them and tell them I'm okay.

My first thought on seeing the balloon was that it was too flimsy and deflated looking to actually hold the 40-50 pounds of a six year old.

It does seem rather unlikely. I'm hoping it's a big charade, and the kid is hiding out somewhere.

http://sharetv.org/images/falcon_crest-show.jpg

prob the older brother did it - 50/50 the boy was actually inside

rad darkhorse scenario: boy was never inside the father did it all for publicity and is about to have a press conference where he informs us the government is controlled by lizard people

isn't that more of a darklizard scenario?

still rad tho

good point

http://www.moviesonline.ca/movie-gallery/albums/userpics//DannyDeckchair01.jpg

what if the dad was a lizard person and this was a big PR promo for the new episodes of V

I can't imagine people cooking up too much jiffy pop for the next few months without some wiseass bringing this shit up.

So Rhys Ifans has been in at least 2 movies that revolve around balloon accidents? What are the odds?

why should anyone care about this? don't get it.

No Kanye jokes yet? The net's slow today.

so the boys whereabouts is still up in the air?

why should anyone care about this? don't get it.

― Whay!ney G. Welldamnen (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

when exactly was the moment u lost yr natural sense of wonder, monster

http://i36.tinypic.com/9jq51x.jpg

I was leaving the gym when I heard about balloon boy. I walked out of the lockers and there was a big group of people gathered around a TV. The screen had weirdly-shaped flying objects on it, maybe like a flying saucer. I figured it was the Martians finally attacking or at least 9/11 all over again. Then they said it was a kid in a balloon. Never forget, man. Never forget.

As someone who has dealt with these kinds of cases before my armchair analysis is that the ballon landed empty in a farmers field.

It would be tremendously out of order to post a Youtube of that last scene from Cloverfield here, wouldn't it?

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-65548

so weird

it would be out of order nv--youd have to start with the first scene

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tlidr95gRew/Ss5DM6ZO4OI/AAAAAAAAA4w/R9bygXnDd38/s320/Cow+UFO.JPG

lol i need to knock together a custos jpeg at some point

via twitteronia
http://i38.tinypic.com/33y5dnp.jpg

xp, <3 max

so let's see, the 2009 year-in-review photomontage will feature the saggy balloon, Michael Jackson, probably inaugural Obama, maybe emotional Gov. Sanford, what else?

akshully it was more of a Dad joke I guess.

kudos either way :D

someone plz pshop "I WANT TO BELIEVE" onto daria's pic

"I could be completely wrong on the forest thing"

2009 year-in-review photomontage

blago, YOU LIE, kanye

it's already been done!
http://i37.tinypic.com/28lvy8o.jpg

So was this linked yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWJXXgaYBo

of course it has xp

so this is what news is now. one hour of intense interest and irrational hysteria and then....

"now"

then the kid is missing so they look for him

"CNN issues apology to Surfboard Dudes Get Wiped Out, Totally for letdown"

yeah okay now that I've seen that video (ignored it the first time) if I had been in this family I also would have attempted to escape by balloon

let down??? all ive heard about this is that they found an empty balloon??

What an odd family.

"At this point, we are thinking that he did not fall out of the balloon and is somewhere on the ground," Larimer County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Eloise Campanella said. "The basket itself was not breached. It does not look like he fell out of it, but again, this is all conjecture."

even if it turns out this kid can teleport, it would not be worth it if the price included being made to be in a music video for a song named "Pussified" based off of a Cold sample

Whoever puts their hand up to this is gonna get so tasered.

it's pretty obv that he was never in the balloon - if he had fallen out in the early stages they would've found him already

does this kid even exist

where is the birth certificate

i mean, this is clearly a shop

http://i33.tinypic.com/332ciud.jpg

even if it turns out this kid can teleport

I like how you just throw that out there.

may name is falcon / ill kick you in the nuts / something something something / yaarrgghhhfff

A modern Raunchy Young Lepers.

tbf the USA definitely needs more kids who are prepared to kick you in the nuts

the humanity

so this kid teleported the wolves into the balloon? when did they get out?

nut kicking a natural instinct for those not pussified

he ate them so they are in his stomach - find the kid and youll find the wolves

http://www.poyi.org/63/photos/01/03.jpg

apparently the kid had a habit of crying balloon fall wolf eat

"there is no child in this balloon"

find the kid and youll find the wolves

Heroes season 4 slogan

http://www.poyi.org/63/photos/01/03.jpg

i love how determined this bird looks as though he is racing to take this animal to safety

I hate how The Man just shot him down, just like all our own childish dreams and hopes and aspirations ;_; while all he wanted was to not do his homework for once :(

balloon-crazy bird

http://i33.tinypic.com/2qbxkdd.jpg

apparently the kid had a habit of crying balloon fall wolf eat

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:58 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lool

i love how determined this bird looks as though he is racing to take this animal to safety

the safety of having its flesh stripped off and swallowed in chunks

the CNN website is all screwed up...they're saying that First Lady Michelle Obama is speaking to military families in Florida...it's not a military family, as far as I know...and there's only 1 of them...and they're in Colorado, not Florida!...sheesh, how could they get it so wrong?!

yeah see people always talk about how the internet can aggregate information and keep people amazingly aware of breaking news, but I could just as easily look at the end of this thread and conclude that a werewolf child parachuted out of Kanye West's balloon

sound the drudge siren

and Kanye still won't get an award for the video xp

the CNN website is all screwed up...they're saying that First Lady Michelle Obama is speaking to military families in Florida...it's not a military family, as far as I know...and there's only 1 of them...and they're in Colorado, not Florida!...sheesh, how could they get it so wrong?!

Balloon boy has made fools of everyone.

police are trying recreate what happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNuFlAHaO-k

Can we get a crying falcon jpeg up in this bitch?

a werewolf child parachuted out of Kanye West's balloon

need Photoshop genius FAST

seriously, though, what is the status here

http://istwitterdown.com/

http://i38.tinypic.com/2mi2lj4.jpg

sorry, I guess that was Tuomassy of me

wolf swap

lol this thread

dont try to shampoo a shampooer

prob the older brother did it - 50/50 the boy was actually inside

― ice cr?m, Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:29 PM

hm yes the Schrödinger's boy theory

haah

lolololol

http://gawker.com/5382731/everything-the-internet-knows-about-balloonkid-and-his-family

rolling balloon disaster thread

Dutch tourists die in China balloon crash
updated 1:43 a.m. EDT, Thu October 15, 2009

(CNN) -- A search party of hundreds hunted for a hot-air balloon that had been reported catching fire and crashing in southern China, arriving in time to save only three of the seven people aboard.

Four Dutch tourists died in the crash Wednesday in Guilin, a popular tourist spot, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

The pilots of the balloon took off from Yangshuo County, then lost control of the craft, the agency reported. Government officials dispatched 400 searchers to find the balloon, which had caught fire at some point.

The two pilots and one other Dutch tourist survived the crash.

After the crash, all hot-air balloon businesses were suspended in the area as officials conducted a safety overhaul, Xinhua reported.

rising balloon death tolls are a serious worry

not a little boy, don't care

it's as if a strange trend for balloon use has ended suddenly in disaster. the cork on the balloon bottle has been released you might say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXHHjoGmExw

So, it looks like my Knowing theory wasn't so far-fetched after all.

was it a spaceship shaped balloon?

Deputy: Object seen falling from balloon

Authorities are searching for a box that was attached to the bottom of an experimental aircraft that took off from a Fort Collins home, CNN affiliate KUSA reported. A Weld County sheriff's deputy says he saw an object fall off the balloon somewhere over Platteville, which is in the search area. developing story

so back to parenting failures:

why weren't these kids in school?

A boy can learn more from sitting in a balloon than sitting around a classroom!

schools pussified man ill kick u in the nuts

A series of balloon attacks on security forces in Pakistan has killed about 40 people.

In Lahore, police and militants fought balloon battles at a federal security building and two police academies that left at least 26 people dead.

A suicide car balloon at a police station in the north-western town of Kohat left 11 dead, while another car balloon in the nearby city of Peshawar killed a child.

More than 150 have died in Pakistan in balloon attacks in the past two weeks.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG

I just discovered that the college classmate of mine I thought had died in a balloon accident several years in a ballooning accident actually faked his death to get his name off the alumni call/mailing list

!!!

I for one welcome our new balloon overlords.

??!!!

Ever since the Hindenburg went down back in three-seven, they've taken extreme precautions:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Chubb_balloon_arp.jpg

Couldn't he have just, you know, asked to be removed from the list?

http://www.odt.co.nz/files/story/2008/12/ballooning_oprah_falls_off_the_weight_wagon_1359965414.jpg

I just discovered that the college classmate of mine I thought had died in a balloon accident several years in a ballooning accident actually faked his death to get his name off the alumni call/mailing list

hahahahaha wow why didn't I think of this...

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The dad, "a stormchaser, an amateur scientist (with some strange theories about civilization on Mars), and an avid self-promoter" who appeared with his family on the tv show "Wife-swap"

That gawker link w/ the video is impressive

wish i would have known about that before my reunion.

I keep farting really loud

Not to evade creditors or the IRS, nope. Just to get off a mailing list. Dude is hardcore.

Couldn't he have just, you know, asked to be removed from the list?

Apparently he did several times and they still kept soliciting him for money, so finally one day he snapped. Here's his story:

http://www.crabwalk.com/misc/harvard.php

(warning: dude is a douchey conservative but also kind of hilarious; also this isn't his blog)

Maybe the balloon kid did the same to avoid getting Valentines from icky girls?

(this is the same dude who spent one evening freshman year wandering around Harvard Square in his bathroom testing the range of his new cordless phone and also would buy crates of things like peanut butter and oranges out of catalogs because he'd never had a credit card before; he also tried to throw away all of his clothes once because he "ruined them in the wash", ie they were wrinkled)

Tuomas, what do you consider to be an "icky girl", brah?

I want a portable bathroom to walk around in.

he also tried to throw away all of his clothes once because he "ruined them in the wash", ie they were wrinkled)

omg

this dude was a walking ball of cognitive dissonance, like he was my diametric opposite on pretty much any social issue you can think of yet he was easily one of my favorite ppl in my class because he was so massively entertaining

that's an amazing story. how did he fit Harvard Square into his bathroom!

http://www.dymaxionweb.com/kulturedrome/zardoz-head.jpg

He contained multitudes.

http://pfunn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/v_lizard1.jpg

^ icke girl ?

I mean, dude had a picture of himself yachting with WF Buckley on his dresser, yet his main technique for trying to pick up girls was buying 64-packs of crayons and getting them to color with him

lol oops where it says "bathroom" it should say "bathrobe"

No way did he throw away his clothes because they were wrinkled. WTF.

(Then again my mum once asked what she needed to do with the groceries once the supermarket woman had scanned'em. "Stuff them in the bag, mom.")

yet his main technique for trying to pick up girls was buying 64-packs of crayons and getting them to color with him!

Question is, did it work?

The clothing argument was hilarious because his roommates were all, "uh why don't you iron them" and he said "PSHAW I will just call home and have them send me money for more clothes." He got on the phone with his mom, who laughed at him for about 10 minutes and said "You'd better get your clothes out of the trash and iron them."

And yes, the coloring thing did work, it was incredible.

That actually doesn't surprise me for some reason.

i didn't know you went to school with randall munroe

Yeah, depending on what else the guy had going on, I might have gone for that.

Yeah that crayon trick might work on me too depending on the guy.

KUSA TV: CHILD FOUND ALIVE AT THE HOUSE LOL

won't be alive for long

In an attic above the garage, apparently.

watching TV

best news story of the year, the world is ignored for a runaway weather balloon. good luck, usa.

lol. i was watching fox when that thing was floating around & shep kept asking are you SURE they didn't search the whole house and he's not hiding so he doesn't get in trouble.

daily show tonight is going to be a treat, isn't it.

so glad all these jokes have been justified all along he's safe and sound and no wolf

Thank the lord he's ok. Now he must die.

the kid played it PERFECTLY imo. good way to not get in trouble: make your parents think you're dead and then have them find out you're alive.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/8/8e/Singcelebs.jpg

"At this point, we are thinking that he did not fall out of the balloon and is somewhere on the ground,"

good to know he hadn't jumped onto a cloud to collect some coins. this kid has done well.

so who should be the most hated boy in america, falcon or his older brother?

It's not our fault! We didn't want the boy, he was an accident!

glenn beck is mentally 8 years old no?

kid is dead.

guys, kid is dead, msnbc is reporting it

hahahaa

is the boy ilx user am0n because that would explain a lot

WTF is going on here.

rip am0n btw

kids are dicks

am0n was hiding in a box in the attic

holy shit Larimer Co. sheriff's office actually confirming he did die now

wtf CNN saying he was found alive in a box in the attic

Yeah so is all the news im reading.

nah it was one of the brothers, keep reading

fox now reporting that the wolf is back and threatening to level the house somehow

yep, msnbc is confirming, he's dead. the kid in the attic was the brother.

cut it out with the wolf, kid is dead.

fucked up, man. fucked up.

kid died, better make a macro

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/ArtAndPhoto-Fronts/USNEWS/Graphics/Balloon_illo4.gif

access flap

haha that helps so much considering that man could be anywhere from 5' 3" to 6' 10"

Too much attention on the boy, how is the balloon feeling in all this? Deflated.

"foil top" because everyone was foiled

needs a poll

I said cut it out with the wolves

dibs

what a load of hot air honestly

YO FALCON, I'M REALLY HAPPY FOR YOU, AND I'MMA LET YOU FINISH, BUT THAT PILTDOWN MAN MOTHERFUCKER HAS ONE OF THE BEST HOAXES OF ALL TIME. OF ALL TIME!!

Falcon more like full con

Is this thread some 77 next level mission or what.

fox now reporting that the wolf is back and threatening to level the house somehow

― modescalator (blueski), Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:24 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

lmccco

oh fuck ;_;

the parents returned to the house and i guess the attic kid wasn't him after all? they're still on the hunt.

what the fuck??

ya turned out to be a wolf in falcon's clothing

Was it Our Maddie in the attic?

glad i missed this thread

Falcon and the Snowjob

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/10/is-balloonboy-the-meme-of-the-year.html

the diary of falcon heene, coming out in '10

Apparently the dad used to be a TV weatherman so we cant believe anything he says anyway.

hang on, did he take off from a special shit shelf?

Another sign that America's children are being brainwashed by Obama's Communist Czars to fly around in alien balloons in order to welcome a wave of illegal extra-terrestrial immigrants flooding over the border.

There is a very large child magnet maxed up to help bad adults finish the hotel of doom

lmccco

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver

hahaha

i can't tell from all the joking if the kid is alive or not. anyone?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33330516/ns/us_news-life/

The boy's family, who earlier this year appeared in a reality television show about wife-swapping, had been building a helium-balloon craft that was kept tethered in the backyard of their home. The craft, which resembled a silver flying saucer, was approximately 20 feet across by 5 feet high.

um

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWJXXgaYBo

That can never be linked enough.

So anyway, cast the biopic.

way to make science, america

WTF THE KID IS DRESSED UP LIKE MR. HANKIE

Dad: Nick Nolte
Mom: Gina McKee
Falcon: Kanye West
Older Brother: That smug twat out of Suite Life of Zack and Cody

The boy's family, who earlier this year appeared in a reality television show about wife-swapping, had been building a helium-balloon craft that was kept tethered in the backyard of their home.

this is one of my favorite sentences of the year. (from msnbc story.)

a reality television show about wife-swapping
LOL nice wording.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaI_so0ovcc

"I was in the attic and he scared me because he yelled at me," Falcon said. "That's why I went in the attic."

this is exquisite lying here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdVI-9V5vD8&feature=related

the basket wasn't even on the goddamn balloon, couldn't the dad have been like "uh the basket's not on the goddamn ballon"

oo

wait is falcon really his name

turning and turning in the widening gyre etc

jesus... why was lisa kudrow even in a weather balloon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBTBnFBipB0

If this all turns out to be viral marketing for a movie I think I might just nip out the back and shoot meself.

http://www.nndb.com/people/949/000050799/frank-dekova.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/10/16/us/16balloon.3375.jpg http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/10/16/us/16balloon.1906.jpg

oh, falconpaws

Falcon’s father, Richard Heene, said his son has a habit of slinking away whenever he is scolded.

“Whenever we tell him things like ‘It’s a bad thing to do,’ he does go and hide,” he said. “He cowers down, and like if we go to the store and he wants to buy some candy or something, I have to tell him no and he’s always behind and the boys are always saying ‘Come on, Falcon, hurry up.’ ”

sir your son appears to be pussified

and eaten by wolves

so i totally missed this thanks to a lol comcast outage in my neighborhood but do we know what the other kids are named?

snowman?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI6UONWCq7A

"You said we did it for the show"?

The boy's family, who earlier this year appeared in a reality television show about wife-swapping, had been building a helium-balloon craft that was kept tethered in the backyard of their home.

this is one of my favorite sentences of the year. (from msnbc story.)

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol

one of the brothers is called bradford - sry btw aware thats not an hilarious name

OMG!!!!! i saw this episode of wife swap!! the dad is a maniac and basically an emotional abuser

"I played with my toys and took a nap," Falcon told a group of reporters outside his home Thursday afternoon.

<3 kids

x-post ^^^^^^^ YES!!! Thank you S for not letting me down here. They were the insane storm chasers, remember?? I knew my Wife Swap habit would be useful someday.

The boy's family, who earlier this year appeared in a reality television show about wife-swapping, had been building a helium-balloon craft that was kept tethered in the backyard of their home.

this is one of my favorite sentences of the year. (from msnbc story.)

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol

Change "this year" to "that year" and it could have been the first sentence of a J. G. Ballard story as presented by the sluglords.

xp yup! he may be the worst person i've seen on that show which is saying something.

o_O worse than the dude who made his family eat raw meat???????

oh easily

he made his wife do anything important and screamed and made a scene like a spoiled 10 year old with a hyperactivity disorder when he didn't get his way.

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/112089/thumbs/s-RICHARD-HEENE-large.jpg

haha look u guys they gave him a glowstick everythings cool no wolfs

dad looks vaguely blagojevichish

pussifiedblagojevichish

blagussified

another heart warming story via facebook

Grady !!!!!!!! Camera/DJ bag, 2 cameras and 8 rolls of film believed to have been lost/stolen on saturday nite just FOUND!!!!!! as if mr. Christian Self weren't already one of my favorite dudes ever!!
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Joe
was it hiding in the attic of the garage
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Grady
lol joe you're not far off-- it was up in a little crawlspace on top of the ladies room-- we had a film crew at the party and i think it got mixed up with stuff they were storing up there!!
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was it eaten by wolfs
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he looks like hamm

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/media/2009/01/0128_blagojevich_menendez.jpg

i hope you all feel stupid for wasting your afternoons on these bumpkins

hay heard u were eaten by wolfs totally, rip bro sry

A friend on Facebook a few minutes back:

"(I) just realized a 6 year-old kid rick rolled the entire world."

10/15 never forget

I wish I hadn't missed this thread in real time. I has had me laughing since I started reading it.

"(I) just realized a 6 year-old kid rick rolled the entire world."

LOL... voted best.

"You said we did it for the show"?

LOLOL OMG DAD BUSTED!!

(from cnn)

On Reddit, a social networking site known for its hilarious discussion threads about news events, the topic elicited fun and fast dialog...

Mossyskeleton: "I wonder if his dad is going to ground him when he gets back."

Falcon must be scared of Wolf.

From Neil Hamburger's twitter:

Can you die from having a gigantic Mylar balloon, and your 6-year old son, shoved up your ass?

still top story on cnn. pathetic

what a disaster for news organizations

i left my apt for snacks this morning and was completely baffled to see a clip of the coverage on a tv in the store. everyone was just sort of staring at the tv w/confused looks like 'wait there's a kid in a balloon being chased by wolves???'

first ahmed chalabi and now this

still top story on cnn. pathetic

― am0n, Friday, 16 October 2009 05:59 (50 minutes ago) Bookmark

er...guys...
Boy Floats Away In Balloon

top story on CNN world news page: World watches odyssey of 'Balloon Boy' in real time

I hope the next top story is about the whole world reading the story about them watching the Balloon Boy in real time.

Also, isn't it kinda misleading to call it the "odyssey of Balloon Boy", when there was no boy in the balloon to have an odyssey?

That's why they used inverted commas?

wht the actual fuck

That's why they used inverted commas?

Yeah, but they should've used inverted commas on the word "odyssey" too. There was no odyssey, he was hiding in a fucking box!

There was no Circe confusing things, just his lying-ass brother. There was no Penelope waiting for him, just his weirdo conspiracy theory dad. There was no Cyclops facing him, just werefolf Kanye West.

Well, if that's not a revelation...

(actually, that's an xpost but it still works!)

Circe was CNN, Odysseus was the balloon, the policeman was Athena...erm....we were Penelope waiting for news...nah, it's not holding up.

You could probably get Aeolus in there somewhere though.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Aeolus1.jpg

And ILX are all very Antigone.

How does one person punch an entire thread?

I hope the next top story is about the whole world reading the story about them watching the Balloon Boy in real time.

― Tuomas, Friday, 16 October 2009 08:13 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Or maybe "whole world reading the story about the whole world queuing up to kick the arse of the father whose six year old kid let loose a helium balloon and the whole world followed it on TV and online thinking that the kid was in the balloon or it was full of wolves or the kid was a wolf or something but really the kid was hiding in the attic the whole time and now the whole world's really cheesed off because the whole world wasted several hours watching an empty oversized helium balloon"

tbf, some of the whole world had better things for doing. i was watching 'get smart' and anne hathaway was v cute, for instance.

The family's been doing the morning show circuit, and Falcon is sick as hell. He threw up on camera on Today and then threw up off-screen on Good Morning America while his parents just sat there in silence. Diane Sawyer had to encourage the mother to go check on him or else she would've just continued sitting there with a dumb look on her face.

Gah, these people are weirdos!

and they seemed so normal until now

wait are we sure this wasn't a pixar stunt

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/10/16/1255677760632/Falcon-Henne-outside-his--002.jpg

er...guys...
Boy Floats Away In Balloon

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 06:51

are people not going gaga over it because of cnn's hyper coverage?

still top thread on ilx. awesome

― am0n, Friday, 16 October 2009 05:59

^ bump

What a disaster for am0n.

still? if only there was a way for it to drop down new answers

how?

i actually like the thread. i just hate cnn

some good advice here: Flush this question out

balloon boy, whats on yr ipod

The family's been doing the morning show circuit, and Falcon is sick as hell. He threw up on camera on Today and then threw up off-screen on Good Morning America while his parents just sat there in silence. Diane Sawyer had to encourage the mother to go check on him or else she would've just continued sitting there with a dumb look on her face.

Gah, these people are weirdos!

― Johnny Fever, Friday, October 16, 2009 8:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is this a real thing that actually happened, did they interview the wolfs too

barfing balloon boy

Whats in your barf balloon boy?

NYT lays out the hoax evidence

The puking on TV thing really happened. There's a clip on Youtube of the kid ralphing into a tupperware container on the today show while the wannabe Mosquito Coast dad runs out the clock on his 15 minutes.

“Scam scam scam: The parents set it up,” said a woman in a Facebook posting.

A commenter on coloradoan.com said that if the incident was staged, “at minimum they need to be billed for the emergency personnel and services expended in this fiasco that has made international news.”

Others expressed relief at the boy being safe; others applauded the county sheriffs and first responders who conducted the search; and many ridiculed the news media, especially local and cable TV, for the heavy coverage of the incident.

Readers of The Denver Post’s Web site weighed in by voting in an online poll in which 47 per cent said that they felt “suspicious” or “ripped off,” while 31 per cent felt “relieved” or “happy.” Readers of Entertainment Weekly’s Web site were even more skeptical. According to a poll on that Web site, 88 per cent of respondents said that they think the incident was a hoax.

On Friday morning, the family members appeared tired and emotional and on the “Today” show on NBC, Falcon vomited on camera.

reporting^

i assume that as we speak jeff koons is working on a full-scale replica of the balloon.

i feel ripped off tbh.

balloon boy eaten by wolf blitzer :(

no, the wolves blitzed him and drank him with ice :(

u guys wolf blitzer is not a real wolf - its all a total hoax duh

assume that as we speak jeff koons is working on a full-scale replica of the balloon.

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Friday, October 16, 2009 10:29 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

stealing the shit out of that line.

http://twitter.com/BoyInTheBalloon

the boy who cried on wolf blitzer

I am only 6 years old, and even I can see that my dad is a sketchy douche.

http://knoxvilleunderground.com/BELIEVE.jpg

a friend of mine on twitter wrote "#balloonboy has now changed his name to #falloutboy". my favorite line so far

so I just watched the "we did this for the show" comment and LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

also: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ss07_la-style-balloony-maxi-version_music

fb friend:

M****** ***** small world....the ballon boy falcon...used to be our next door neighbour in Ft.Collins...and his dad did some handy work for us....crazyness
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his dad did some handy work for us

"I just needed to you to put up some drywall, dude."

hahahaha Ned

Is it a reverse concern troll that we have stories now entitled 'What if the Balloon Boy spectacle wasn't a hoax?'.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kvwn9f7n_AA/RtG6HoD29yI/AAAAAAAAADc/UHYeWH8ZX4Q/s400/milhouse.jpg

LOL BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/8310816.stm

http://www.balloonboygame.com/

^^^recommended for minutes of fun

access flap

bestworst double entendre of the week?

"Her Majesty the Queen has asked me to write to tell you that she found your balloon in her garden at Windsor Castle when she was walking her dogs.

"Her Majesty was delighted to see how far it had flown and was so happy it was your balloon she found."

aw

http://ifoundfalcon.ytmnd.com/

hahahahahaa

Perfect.

hay guess who's fallen off trending topics

okay i may have done one of these

http://heenefication.ytmnd.com/

lol

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3433/3754455282_12ed46ae7d.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3455/3753657031_2e15c6e333.jpg

Hmmm:

The Heenes lived in Burbank several years ago, when Richard was trying to launch an acting career, according to Los Angeles media reports. Carrie Cavalier, his former landlady, told NBC News that he was late in paying rent and left town in 2007, owing her $6,000.

On Friday, the Associated Press reported that a sheriff's deputy had responded to a 911 hang-up call at the family's home in February. The deputy said that he heard a man yelling and found Mayumi Heene with a mark on her cheek and broken blood vessels in her eye, but that she attributed it to a problem with her contacts. The deputy decided he didn't have probable cause to make an arrest, and no charges were filed.

the "failed actor" angle explains a lot. makes me think of timothy treadwell.

hey, this bullshit non-story made page 1 of the NY Times. Reality TV wins!

Just received first "boy in balloon" themed spam...

Breaking News

Charges are expected to be filed in runaway balloon case, sheriff says

Geez, what a sad story all around.

so-- is it like... a negligence thing or for making the police & ambulances follow the balloon around?

I assume it's making a false police report, or something along those lines.

MSNBC has a story on it.

A circus-like atmosphere formed outside the home, including men holding signs and occasionally yelling "balloon boy." One sign read, "Put balloon boy on TV: America's Most Wanted."

Others carried aluminum foil stovetop popcorn makers that resembled the silvery balloon launched from the family's backyard Thursday, with 6-year-old Falcon believed to be onboard.

A man pulled a red wagon with coffee for sale. The sign had "$2" scratched out with a new price of $1.

^^^people like these are the most disgusting savages etc

o this thread.. thank u, ILX, for providing me w/ some srs lols at a time when lols have been a bit scarce.

men holding signs and occasionally yelling "balloon boy."

ok lol

rad darkhorse scenario: boy was never inside the father did it all for publicity and is about to have a press conference where he informs us the government is controlled by lizard people

― ice cr?m, Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:29 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I clearly remember Richard telling me that, if we accomplish this, it would be the most controversial and widespread UFO news story since Roswell in 1947.

But he was motivated by theories I thought were far-fetched. Like Reptilians — the idea there are alien beings that walk among us and are shape shifters, able to resemble human beings and running the upper echelon of our government. Somehow a secret government has covered all this up since the U.S. was established, and the only way to get the truth out there was to use the mainstream media to raise Richard to a status of celebrity, so he could communicate with the masses.

http://gawker.com/5383858/exclusive-i-helped-richard-heene-plan-a-balloon-hoax

claiming my prize

!!!!!!!!!!

I was only kind of enjoying the whole balloon boy spectacle, but then I saw the kid throw up on the Today Show and now I think it's one of the greatest things ever.

omg

I was reading a book on witness reports of Roswell at the time, just out of curiousity — I've never concluded whether it really took place or was an elaborate hoax.

Dude who write the article not exackly real level-headed either then.

appears to have legit documentation of the proposed pitch tho?

more documentation than there is of little grey men anyway

Oh I'm sure he's telling mostly truth I'm just not a big fan of people who give a shit about youfohs.

Barack Obama:
http://www.monstropedia.org/images/c/cb/Reptoid2.jpg

We can all rest now

FORT COLLINS, Colo. - A sheriff says a Colorado couple's report that their 6-year-old son was in a balloon that was hurtling away from their home was a publicity stunt.

Sheriff Jim Alderden says Richard and Mayumi Heene "put on a very good show for us, and we bought it."

The sheriff says no charges have been filed yet, and the parents aren't under arrest. But he says he expects to recommend charges of conspiracy and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Alderden says interviews with the parents Saturday resulted in enough information to get a warrant to search the house. He says they were looking for computers, e-mails, phone records and financial records.

So says Reptilian-controlled Sheriff Jim Alderden and his MSM co-conspirators.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0953881016.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

The dramatic announcement included an admission by Alderden that authorities misled the media on Friday when they said they still believed it was not a hoax.

In fact, after a comment on CNN Thursday night by Falcon, the 6-year-old boy, "it became very clear to us at that point that they were lying," Alderden said. But in order to get to the truth, "it was very important that they maintain their trust with us." So investigators misled the media while they carried out their "game plan" of gathering the truth.

"Thank you, cable news, for being so fucking predictable. You were a big help."

yay my faith in "experts in detecting deceptive behavior" is restored

alderden is just like that guy on that show

you mean the cop show? or the other one?

Gosh, Denver must be pretty crime free for the Sheriff to be devoting so much time and effort on this heinous crime.

I think screwing the emergency services around for a few hours so's you can get some publicity for your views about marxist pussified lizard people running the govmint is reasonably heinous.

lmao @ ice cr?m

claiming my prize

congratulating u

Er, emergency services are needed to save lives. When you tie them up for five or six hours straight not only are you pushing your stupid self ahead of people who may be in dire need, but also these services cost one fucking hell of a lot of money. If this was a hoax, I say fine the guy about $300,000 and put him jail for six months.

http://mashable.com/2009/10/15/balloon-boy-facebook/#mb

If this was a hoax, I say fine the guy about $300,000 and put him jail for six months.

can we just stuff him in one of his bullshit crafts and shoot his ass into outer space?

u guys are forgetting the joy he brought to each of us the citizens of the world

he taught us that boys can fly higher than dreams

http://guestofaguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/balloon-boy1.jpg

for just a few brief moments on friday we looked at the sky and realized we were all human beings... and isnt that the greatest lesson of them all?

Balloon Boy for Colorado State Representative!

for one brief shining moment we looked toward the heavens as a boy named falcon cowered in a garage attic

'Who the hell is Wolf?' balloon boy asks

On cnn.com right now. For some reason I can't play their videos though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Ib6d6yVMM&feature=player_embedded

falcon 1
wolf 0

So when is this going to get made into a TV movie?

starring the dad

Others carried aluminum foil stovetop popcorn makers that resembled the silvery balloon launched from the family's backyard Thursday, with 6-year-old Falcon believed to be onboard.

OMG TRAPPED IN STOVETOP POPCORN MAKER!

(xpost) Introducing ILXors as Themselves

Stovetop Popcornmaker <------ beautiful

I sense an endorsement/spokesperson deal here...
Falcon's Dad: "If you don't use <this brand of> stovetop popcorn maker, you'll be popping mad!"

enter heene's neighbor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvq-8ji9hU0

way 2 go media!

from behind? from behind? from behind? from behind? from behind? from behind? from behind?

wtf?!

lol @ flyin dawkins

lmao holy fuck

LOL where is this story going to go next?!?!?!

lol @ guy trying to restrain him thinking hes doing the right thing while everyone looks on like o_O

help me out guys

from behind from behind

then he get punched in the face for his troubles

u just tried that again u just tried that again u just tried that again

let him go let him go its just news man let him go

Henry Hill: [narrating] And then there was Jimmy Two Times, who got that nickname because he said everything twice, like:
Jimmy Two Times: I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers.

repeating unaswerable questions is standard "I'm going to fight you" behavior in my experience

that's assault right? wtg media dudes.

lol jimmy two times

jimmy twelve times

jeezis

jimmy twelve times!!

that's assault right? that's assault right? that's assault right? that's assault right? that's assault right? that's assault right?

yellow dude put bald dude in headlock to prevent him from punching cell phone dude. bald dude was stating he was going to get violent and got violent. yellow dude was only using defensive measures, bald dude actually punched him in the head a few times. if anything, bald dude is the assailant.

are you yellow dude's lawyer?

naw, just a sexy dancer who knows when people start with the repeating question rev-up, it's time to take them down.

"Channel 6: We Make The News"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAzzhsR8YLg

pre-emptive assault tactics

Anything you say (or do) can and will be uploaded to YouTube whether you want it there or not.

no taking down took place is the prob - face punching took place

From that video, it just seems like the dude wanted to get by and all of the media guys were being dicks. That doesn't justify the punching though.

"cameras rolling? ok lets poke this guy's neighbor til he snaps"

Certainly what it seems like.

the fight is a publicity stunt staged by the neighbor in order to promote his new reality show NewsBrawl: Extreme Edition

That doesn't justify the punching though.

He didn't punch until after he'd been tackled to the ground, from behind, and wrestled with for about 20 seconds.

The punchiest news reporting on television today (xp)

haha

balloon kid neighbor fight hoax

http://s2.buzzfeed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2009/10/16/13/enhanced-buzz-10866-1255713457-4.jpg

BuzzFeed: 4Chan Delivers Pizza To Balloon Boy

bald dude approaching cell phone dude in a threatening manner = assault
yellow dude taking down bald dude = battery
bald dude punching yellow dude in face = priceless

In other news: house prices in that neighbourhood falling rapidly.

will the wackiness ever fukken cease

http://i34.tinypic.com/vpw0oi.jpg

These songs are pretty dope:

http://www.tmz.com/2009/10/20/richard-heene-balloon-boy-reality-show-theme-music/

i love america

subtract the vox & first song would be believable as a lost V.U. instrumental

In a year of stupidly overblown news stories showing the horribly skewed priorities of the news media(eg the overdose death of a famous pedophile wiping the valiant efforts of the Iranian people to overthrow the government off the front pages and out of people's conciousness), this one may get the gold medal.

seriously, they've got us talking about some neighbor's melee with the media when the real story is a kid who's not in a balloon

Fake Pizzas...

real emotions tho guys, think abt it

RIP famous pedophile

(xxpost) I hope those were UK pizzas, kid should get something for his trouble after all.

who's balloon dad gonna kill first?

I wish I got free pizza.

Nation Floats Away In Balloon

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/10/balloon-boy-and-brothers-celebrate-stoning-a-faggot-in-rap-video.html

this is pretty fucked up

I thought it said "Falcon", ie the name of the balloon kid

The first time I watched the video I heard "faggot," then rewound to make sure I'd heard it right. When I listened again, it was unclear -- I also thought it could've been "Falcon," but maybe that was wishful thinking.

I mean, "faggot" would totally fit the profile of this family but that wasn't what I heard and the song was repellent enough that I'm not replaying it to double-check.

i couldn't understand a word of it tbh

except for "oklahoma city" which i figured would be massive o_O no matter which way, if i bothered to figure it out.

I didn't get that far when I watched the video because the video is pretty hard to watch.

blackface toilet anyone?

countdown to cps taking kids away

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/10/balloon-boy-and-brothers-celebrate-stoning-a-faggot-in-rap-video.html

Gay Slurs | Music Video | News

Interesting nav bar

I just realized 5 minutes ago that this is the only episode of Wife Swap I've ever seen, which was like 8-9 months ago..

If I'm remembering correctly the parents are kind of insane.

Oh really?

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/features/baltimoremomblog/balloonboy2.jpg

He seems disappointed with the lack of free pizza he received today.

Oh really?
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:15 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

I'm ever so sorry I don't have time to read 618 messages regarding this topic.

Too bad, it's been a really fun thread.

I feel not enough is being said about Erik Humphrey Gordon

http://www.zuguide.com/image/David-Spade-PCU.8.jpg

http://www.cagle.com/news/BalloonBoy/main.asp

Per the dad's M.O. (reptilian overlords = jewish NWO) instead of saying "faggots" wouldn't they hate on gays by substituting some race of fantasy beings?

its unfortunate in this day and age that every adult american does not have the pyramid of rape committed to memory

If this all turns out to be viral marketing for a movie I think I might just nip out the back and shoot meself.

― ceci n'est pas une pipecock (Trayce), Friday, October 16, 2009

Well er um... I ran out of ammo.

(eg the overdose death of a famous pedophile wiping the valiant efforts of the Iranian people to overthrow the government off the front pages and out of people's conciousness)

SB'ed. For real.

Per the dad's M.O. (reptilian overlords = jewish NWO) instead of saying "faggots" wouldn't they hate on gays by substituting some race of fantasy beings?

― Comfort Me With Apples (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

http://specialedandme.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/teletubbies-happypreview.png ???

Balloon Boy Wife Swap ep currently on E4+1 in the UK.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/23/mayumi-heene-admits-hoax_n_332307.html

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