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6 yr. old alone in runaway experimental balloon (1 Viewer)

I loved that movie when I was younger. If I recall, Sarah Jessica Parker actually looked cute back then.
 
I like how the parents react to the kid when they ask him if he heard them yelling. Hammed it up as if they hadn't asked him already. Or the whole thing was a setup. Either way they are hams. I like the mom's, "Noooooooooooo."

Another thing is how dumb is the sheriff? "It's not that unusual for kids to hide in situations like this." Well why then wasn't the last place he was seen (garage) properly searched. Ridiculous.

 
After watching that episode I'm convinced I know the father....CONVINCED. Not sure if it was from the poker table or If I did construction work for him but I'm positive I know.

 
Howard Kurtz doesn't find much fault with news networks on this one.

Gotta admit, I kind of agree with him here. The blame for the hysteria seems like it may well lie with the cops, who appear to have taken something that was a slight possibility and treated it as a fact when relaying information to the media.

Of course, I wasn't watching CNN/MSNBC/Fox News at the time, so I can't really say for sure. Curious what those who were watching think. To the extent they played it up, was that just a function of living in a world with multiple 24 hour news stations and other sources? What could they have done differently?

 
Wild Young Billy said:
Did anyone just see the kid barf on-air during the interview on the Today Show? :thumbup:
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Here it is.Dad looks seriously disturbed during and after his son getting sick. No matter the eccentricities of the family or the possibility of a publicity stunt, it bothers me that Richard looked grieved about every element of the media circus and his son's whereabouts when Falcon vomited.

 
K-funk said:
Wild Young Billy said:
Did anyone just see the kid barf on-air during the interview on the Today Show? :lmao:
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Here it is.Dad looks seriously disturbed during and after his son getting sick. No matter the eccentricities of the family or the possibility of a publicity stunt, it bothers me that Richard looked grieved about every element of the media circus and his son's whereabouts when Falcon vomited.
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Agreed. Regardless of the circumstance, or whatever, this is still a family that seems to love each other. The outside world might call them wierd, or whatever, but the kids seem happy and well cared for. I can only imagine the kind of stress it would take to make me vomit...and I don't think a 6-year old kid should feel that kind of stress. If I were that family, I would graciuosly thank rescuers, apologize publically for any harm caused, then fade out of the spotlight. I would stop doing interviews, and cancel my Wife-Swap crap if I could. I think recent events (Jon and Kate + ocho) have proven that the media isn't good for families.

 
Fat Nick said:
K-funk said:
Wild Young Billy said:
Did anyone just see the kid barf on-air during the interview on the Today Show? :fishing:
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Here it is.Dad looks seriously disturbed during and after his son getting sick. No matter the eccentricities of the family or the possibility of a publicity stunt, it bothers me that Richard looked grieved about every element of the media circus and his son's whereabouts when Falcon vomited.
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Agreed. Regardless of the circumstance, or whatever, this is still a family that seems to love each other. The outside world might call them wierd, or whatever, but the kids seem happy and well cared for. I can only imagine the kind of stress it would take to make me vomit...and I don't think a 6-year old kid should feel that kind of stress. If I were that family, I would graciuosly thank rescuers, apologize publically for any harm caused, then fade out of the spotlight. I would stop doing interviews, and cancel my Wife-Swap crap if I could. I think recent events (Jon and Kate + ocho) have proven that the media isn't good for families.
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You are right, no kid should feel that kind of stress and that is the fault of the parents for trying to pull a stunt like this. This was a hoax and the parents are loons!
 
In retrospect, I think the cable news did a fair job, the police reported that a boy was stuck in a flying balloon and coverage was given. Sure, now we can all look back and say that the boy was not in the balloon but at the time that was not known. He was later found hiding back at home. For some reason while I was watching this I kept thinking about the JonBenet Ramsey case (also in CO) in which again police we called about the odd disappearance of a child, but that one had a much worse ending.

 
Wild Young Billy said:
Did anyone just see the kid barf on-air during the interview on the Today Show? :lmao:
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Meredith looked like someone just tried to take a dump in front of her.And the father... :lmao:This is a sane man we are witnessing, folks.
 
Flying Spaghetti Monster said:
In retrospect, I think the cable news did a fair job, the police reported that a boy was stuck in a flying balloon and coverage was given. Sure, now we can all look back and say that the boy was not in the balloon but at the time that was not known. He was later found hiding back at home. For some reason while I was watching this I kept thinking about the JonBenet Ramsey case (also in CO) in which again police we called about the odd disappearance of a child, but that one had a much worse ending.
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I was with the cable news until the thing hit the ground (and a CNN "expert" actually said moments earlier that he didn't think there was anyone in the balloon—good call). I assumed the balloon was a lot bigger than it turned out to be—and I'm guessing most of the anchors and experts being told there was a boy in there assumed it was a pretty large balloon. But once we got a sense of scale, it turned out that thing wasn't very big at all. But then they started talking about a box attached to the bottom or the kid having already fallen out. Neither of those stories made any sense and it seemed like they were passing along those reports without the skepticism they warranted.I kind of wish I was more explicitly skeptical myself, so I can understand the position they were in. Nobody wants to be the person calling hoax and then find out there's a dead kid, especially when you're a talking head.
 
I stepped away from this thread for 10 hours. I'm tempted to Hipple it with a ;) on each post, but I'm just going to have to settle for one big:

;) :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

 
K-funk said:
Wild Young Billy said:
Did anyone just see the kid barf on-air during the interview on the Today Show? :hifive:
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Here it is.Dad looks seriously disturbed during and after his son getting sick. No matter the eccentricities of the family or the possibility of a publicity stunt, it bothers me that Richard looked grieved about every element of the media circus and his son's whereabouts when Falcon vomited.
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:unsure: The look on the brothers face in the middle is hilarious. Looks like he was about to throw up too.
 
pantagrapher said:
Flying Spaghetti Monster said:
In retrospect, I think the cable news did a fair job, the police reported that a boy was stuck in a flying balloon and coverage was given. Sure, now we can all look back and say that the boy was not in the balloon but at the time that was not known. He was later found hiding back at home. For some reason while I was watching this I kept thinking about the JonBenet Ramsey case (also in CO) in which again police we called about the odd disappearance of a child, but that one had a much worse ending.
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I was with the cable news until the thing hit the ground (and a CNN "expert" actually said moments earlier that he didn't think there was anyone in the balloon—good call). I assumed the balloon was a lot bigger than it turned out to be—and I'm guessing most of the anchors and experts being told there was a boy in there assumed it was a pretty large balloon. But once we got a sense of scale, it turned out that thing wasn't very big at all. But then they started talking about a box attached to the bottom or the kid having already fallen out. Neither of those stories made any sense and it seemed like they were passing along those reports without the skepticism they warranted.I kind of wish I was more explicitly skeptical myself, so I can understand the position they were in. Nobody wants to be the person calling hoax and then find out there's a dead kid, especially when you're a talking head.
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Exactly.More likely than not it's BS, but when the alternative is a dead 6 year old, you really HAVE to take that possibility as serious as a heart attack.
 
One of the news videos finally gave me something I was looking for that was lacking until now- the box that they were speaking of all along was actually the pan to the almost bursting jiffy pop popcorn. Not a separate box hanging beneath the balloon. Not having followed this from the beginning, I didn't get how anyone could possibly have thought there was ever a kid in that balloon til now. The video also showed it's door in an open position.

So, now I understand how someone could have taken this serious at first. Post farce- if the family was more believable I could even see people still buying their story. But everything the say and do seems so forced. As for the vomiting Falcon? Methinks he is caving in under the strain of lying to please his parents. Sad.

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When this story broke, the first thing I thought of was 12 Monkeys... The boy who was supposedly trapped in the well turned out to be hiding in a barn the whole time.

 
Also, as a Colorado tax payer, I will be supremely pissed if I am held accountable for even one cent of this mess. The investigators better get to the bottom of this, hold the family financially responsible, and press criminal charges against this turd.

 
Tigran Petrosian said:
Well, I get that they figured the 6 year old was the only one plausibly small enough to be lifted by this mylar balloon (actually not, but regardless), so they had him hide and claimed he was carried off. The problem is that Falcon wasn't ready for prime time. He fumbled. They should have gone with Bradford. He was the only one not writhing around awaiting his next ritalin dose.



YOU ALWAYS START YOUR STUDS.
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:lmao:
 
Has anybody mentioned the Dad said they contacted him when the Balloon landed? I'm pretty sure if I thought my kid was in the Balloon that was on the loose that I would likely try to follow it. Unless of course, I knew my kid was in the garage playing with toys.

 
PizzaDeliveryGuy said:
Has anybody mentioned the Dad said they contacted him when the Balloon landed? I'm pretty sure if I thought my kid was in the Balloon that was on the loose that I would likely try to follow it. Unless of course, I knew my kid was in the garage playing with toys.
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The Dad also said that he was unaware of the fact that rescuers found the hatch to be untouched and therefore, concluded it was almost impossible that anyone had been in the envelope to begin with. Um, I'm pretty sure this is something they'd have told him. And then, him getting emotional every time they bring this up and then saying #### like, "I hate to say this with him here" choke, sob, choke, "I thought... I thought maybe he'd fallen out." What a ####### #####.
 
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