turn on CNN
― Brio, Thursday, 15 October 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago)
OMG.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 15 October 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago)
blame pixar
― carne asada, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago)
That CNN weatherman is doing some scaremongering shit, suggesting there's a hypoxia risk at 7000 feet.
― WmC, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago)
Holy shit!
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago)
Blame that f---g parent/guardian that left the child unattended in a hot air balloon.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago)
That kid is either going to be incredibly dead or incredibly famous.
― Hatch, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago)
yeah i guess a 6 year old didn't build that thing himself xp
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago)
The way that thing is pitching and rotating and sometimes turning up on its side, that kid must be getting thrown around pretty bad.
― WmC, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago)
gotta be fuckin cold as shit up there at the moment.
― ian, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
this is horrible
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
I wish Rick Sanchez was in that thing instead of that kid.
― WmC, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago)
:(
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago)
is it dropping?
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago)
:( :(
― Meg (Meg Busset), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:12 (fifteen years ago)
god damn that thing is moving fast.. a helicopter would wreck it... hang glider????
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:13 (fifteen years ago)
man this is fucked up
is it too soon to ask what's on his ipod
― Jesus, the Czar of Czars (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:13 (fifteen years ago)
damn it is fast
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:13 (fifteen years ago)
a helicopter would wreck it yes but what about some kind of catching device lowered from the chopper
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago)
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.
― Brio, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago)
I am trying to figure out what exactly the dad was thinking with building this thing
― Jesus, the Czar of Czars (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago)
http://i36.tinypic.com/25qw2dd.jpg
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago)
it would be awesome if the kid was totally hiding in the basement
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago)
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.
― WmC, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago)
I think the kid must be passed out by now or something. Hope he makes it.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago)
is it going as fast as it looks or is it just the way its being filmed, I don't really have sound
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago)
The kid's name is Falcon?!
― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago)
god damn it keeps flying sideways
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago)
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
― Jesus, the Czar of Czars (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago)
it's fucked on one side, hence why it's dropping now. praying for that kid.
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago)
yo, people w CNN what is the deal w the rescue
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago)
lmao @ the video
― am0n, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago)
That thing is about to starting dropping like a rock. Hope they have someone zooming over the with some kind of net or something...
― Hatch, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago)
Putting a helicopter above it sounds like guaranteed disaster.
― WmC, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago)
i bet there's no one in it
that's just awful. feel no real need to watch the rest of this.
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:20 (fifteen years ago)
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/t1wide.boy.balloon.02.kusa.jpg
― am0n, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago)
Now they're interviewing a balloon expert called Gordon Boring. If this wasn't such an awful thing the names would make me chuckle.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago)
I pray this is what happened. I only read the CNN story. Any news outlets quoted the parents/guardiansa? (I assume not, but still . . . )
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago)
"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?
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago)
tht poor kid must be terrified :(
― coz (webinar), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago)
do i see land guide ropes on this thing?
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago)
(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.
― Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago)
man how fast is that going?
― omar little, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago)
yeah this seems destined to end in disaster. how long will cnn stick with this?
― Cousin Larry Soetoro (jeff), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago)
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.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago)
saying it's very possible the kid might have already fallen out.
― circa1916, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago)
Wind is around 30 mph, apparently.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago)
mose basic editing?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 10:35 (fourteen years ago)
Update!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago)
Another Update!
(family moved to Florida. Balloon Boy now plays bass in a metal band with his brothers)
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago)
I was just about to a link to this with extra "CURSE YOU NED RAGGETT" content because it's his fault I listened to this
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago)
Hi there!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago)
Dear God, did we learn nothing from Old Skull or the Death Kids?
― NINO CARTER, Friday, 18 January 2013 19:56 (twelve years ago)
Guys. I met Falcon last night. At the Morbid Angel show.
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Saturday, 7 December 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago)
he handed me this
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/636/z6jf.jpg
so they're apparently still doing the metal band thing. I listened to a few tracks and...Richard Heene should get 4 life sentences.
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Saturday, 7 December 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago)
!
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 7 December 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAMSmasXUfw
― hang son doong (am0n), Monday, 17 February 2014 18:39 (eleven years ago)
Heene Boyz on Spotify btw
― T.S.O.Liot (CharlieS), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 05:43 (eleven years ago)
I saw them again not too long after at a metal show. the dad looked like a smug asshole, but the kids were genuinely into the show and were having a good time, which was nice to see. really hate how he's still whoring them out tho.
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 05:43 (eleven years ago)
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/03/11/mxp-what-happened-to-balloon-boy.hln.html
― how's life, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 18:26 (eleven years ago)
brrr what happened to that balloon boy
― real myst opportunity (sleepingbag), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 18:29 (eleven years ago)
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
This is one of my favorite posts of all time
― Wahaca Flocka Flame (DJP), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 20:28 (eleven years ago)
balloon boy on bass guitar (w/ his 2 brothers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc1bGHaTO14
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Friday, 12 September 2014 16:27 (ten years ago)
guh-ross.
― how's life, Friday, 12 September 2014 16:32 (ten years ago)
kid is dead.
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:46 PM
as in, really. he fell out.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 23 September 2016 05:45 (eight years ago)
Heene Boyz - The Youth of America for Trump
― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:09 (eight years ago)
the dad is such a piece of crap. i saw him at one of the shows his kids played in Tampa and wanted to accost him so bad. but his kids were having a good time so i thought better of it.
still will never forget the moment after Falcon gave me his card when I put 2+2 together and realized who I just met. couldn't stop laughing the rest of the night.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:23 (eight years ago)
fox now reporting that the wolf is back and threatening to level the house somehow
― modescalator (blueski), Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 9 September 2017 12:36 (eight years ago)
https://www.today.com/video/where-are-they-now-checking-in-with-balloon-boy-528545347572?v=raila&
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 October 2018 01:07 (six years ago)
https://www.5280.com/2019/09/the-balloon-boy-hoax-solved/
a great coda (?)
― honk hunk blue (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 13:02 (five years ago)
thank god we finally got to the bottom of that
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 13:34 (five years ago)
🎈🎈🎈
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 13:41 (five years ago)
That is the greatest opening paragraph I have ever read.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 13:46 (five years ago)
LOL
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 14:25 (five years ago)
omg the ending
― imago, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 14:45 (five years ago)
Still can't believe i met Falcon
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:33 (five years ago)
OMG they live about 20 minutes away from me.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:01 (five years ago)
20 mins by balloon?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:19 (five years ago)
Lol
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:40 (five years ago)
i was wondering how i could order a blowjab
― honk hunk blue (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:41 (five years ago)
Try going to Boston?
― just another country (snoball), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 18:27 (five years ago)
Happy anniversary.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 October 2020 20:56 (four years ago)
totally used to see the entire family at metal shows for a period of 1-2 years, it was so bizarre. Falcon handing me a card for his band at Morbid Angel sent me into a giggling fit I couldn't stop for a half hour
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 October 2020 22:33 (four years ago)
good times
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 October 2020 22:34 (four years ago)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/24/us/balloon-boy-pardon/index.html
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 24 December 2020 17:03 (four years ago)
"Richard and Mayumi have paid the price in the eyes of the public, served their sentences, and it's time for all of us to move on. It's time to no longer let a permanent criminal record from the balloon boy saga follow and drag down the parents for the rest of their lives."
Yes. Very sensible and generous. Now let's apply the same thought automatically to a much wider swath of the ex-incarcerated, not just a handful of people at a time.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Thursday, 24 December 2020 18:38 (four years ago)
you were the uniting force that bound us all.
please fake-fly away again
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 July 2021 02:00 (four years ago)
I knew he was working for the other side the entire time.
― pplains, Friday, 3 February 2023 14:31 (two years ago)
We have a national balloon incident, code, uh. Code balloon
― Karl Malone, Friday, 3 February 2023 15:46 (two years ago)
― Tuomas, Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:25 PM bookmarkflaglink
he called it!
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 04:18 (one year ago)
Sounds more like Tuomas was in on the hoax the whole time
― Ste, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 07:53 (one year ago)
A homemade flying saucer lifts off, and a 6-year-old boy might be inside. National panic ensues — but what truly happened? This documentary investigates.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 20 June 2025 17:49 (two months ago)
getting into the Most Unnecessary Documentary olympics now
― Neanderthal, Friday, 20 June 2025 17:57 (two months ago)
probably directed by the huckster father that orchestrated this whole scam
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 20 June 2025 17:59 (two months ago)
'Trainwreck: Balloon Boy' is a great mixing of metaphors
― gioia thoing (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 20 June 2025 18:00 (two months ago)
is this about the wolf that ate the boy before he was resurrected
― Neanderthal, Friday, 20 June 2025 18:02 (two months ago)
it was after he was resurrected 😈
― five six seven, eight nine ten, begin (map), Saturday, 21 June 2025 00:10 (two months ago)