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Balloon boy family plans 'big announcement'
Drudge ^ | 10-17-2009 | Drudge

Posted on 10/17/2009 7:47:47 AM PDT by jilliane

Balloon dad says he has something to day according to reports

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: attentionwhores; balloon; ego; falconheene; guilty; heene; lookatme; mememe
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To: McLynnan

This is really good stuff...

When balloon Dad came out of the house with the box...I’m thinking this guy is such a media hound, he’s bringing out a box o donuts to the news crews....

The looks on crews faces were classic... They had “”WTF”” written all over them.


61 posted on 10/17/2009 9:36:14 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: McLynnan
There should be a special place in the loony bin for this guy.

Or better yet, the balloony bin.

62 posted on 10/17/2009 9:39:29 AM PDT by KJC1
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To: Sloth
Balloon Boy Dad: “I’m buying free clothes for everyone at Burlington Coat Factory!”

Cross-Kook humor!

63 posted on 10/17/2009 9:40:16 AM PDT by TankerKC (No Taxation Without Lubrication)
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To: dragnet2

It is kind of comical - but there is still this “sick, sad, tragic” component to it.

He sure as hell ain’t the stablest pier on the coast...

Probably make an announcement, but in a language not spoken on Earth.

You will have to watch a utube vid to decode it...


64 posted on 10/17/2009 9:41:06 AM PDT by djf (Some people are proud. Some people are curious. I'm proud that I'm curious!!)
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To: dragnet2; KJC1

Too funny.


65 posted on 10/17/2009 9:44:22 AM PDT by McLynnan
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To: jilliane
'big announcement'

I won the Publisher's Clearing House grand prize.....where's the van?

66 posted on 10/17/2009 9:44:23 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Who's your Long Legged MacDaddy?)
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To: dragnet2
That's an EXCELLENT point....

My Question: How did they eventually find the kid in the garage??

Was the kid wearing a watch??

Did the father discourage folks from searching the attic??

Daddy didn't know this was his kid's hiding place?? The brothers didn't know How the heck did the little one learn of it?? That's what bros are for...

67 posted on 10/17/2009 9:46:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sloth
Actually, looking at the dudes hair, I think the flake's living out his delusional fantasy...of wanting to be...


68 posted on 10/17/2009 9:51:44 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (That smell of death...be seeing ya big casino)
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To: newfreep

“.... I am selling these balloons and here is where you can buy one...”

“But wait, there’s more!”

Call now and we’ll give your young ones a free ride with no strings attached! Call us now while the offer still lasts!


69 posted on 10/17/2009 9:54:14 AM PDT by eaglestar
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To: jilliane

USA Today punked!


70 posted on 10/17/2009 9:59:19 AM PDT by jilliane
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To: jilliane

Well, is it Ten AM yet?

Anywheres? Some time zone?
Ten AM on Sirius?


71 posted on 10/17/2009 10:04:50 AM PDT by djf (Some people are proud. Some people are curious. I'm proud that I'm curious!!)
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To: TankerKC

It’s no doubt a hoax. A freakish balloon mishap that attracts the attention of the world and turns out to involve not some no-name family, but of all the million possible families out there it just so happens to be one that has been obsessed with living in (and off of) the public spotlight, doing whatever it takes to attract attention (reality tv, storm chasing, junk-science, vulgar rap video starring the children doing and saying crude things, even trying to work some crazy deal with Jimmy Kimmel). What are the odds this huge media event just happened to happen to them by accident?

And the odds keep growing. For then it turns out the boy was hiding in the attic all the time, apparently the one place in the house that the parents didn’t think to check (gee, if it was me i’d have checked under every bed, in every closet, down in the basement, up the attic, even up the chimney for that matter). Then with everyone thinking this might be a hoax, lo and behold the boy blurts out that he didn’t come out when called because it was part of the show. So again, what are the odds here? What are the chances of the kid blurting out exactly what everyone suspected but somehow he really didn’t mean it the way it sounded? And then the kid starts throwing up on national tv (how often do you see someone do that on tv?). And then a video comes out showing the liftoff and it just happens to catch the father getting all upset and setting the stage for what was to follow. Very odd, and the odds of all this happening by accident rather than design keep dwindling to next to zero.

It’s all part of the show, like the kid said. A three ringed circus. Reality TV, brought to you by the news media.


72 posted on 10/17/2009 10:05:08 AM PDT by Humbug (hmm mmm mmmm)
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To: jilliane

Dad won the Nobel Peace Price?


73 posted on 10/17/2009 10:06:58 AM PDT by McGruff (Go rogue baby, go rogue!)
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To: SERKIT
And I believe there was something said about 1.21 jigawatts.
74 posted on 10/17/2009 10:09:20 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: RobRoy
The kid said his dad hollered at him....

So the kid did something TOTALLY DIFFERENT from what he'd done in the past and hid in the attic ??????

This can really mess up a kid...loyalty to dad...or the truth...

I really hope they leave the kid alone and find another way to find the truth...

75 posted on 10/17/2009 10:29:05 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: jilliane

This might be a hoax, but I certainly would not believe it based on what a 6 year old has to say. A six year old is not a valid source of information.


76 posted on 10/17/2009 11:13:31 AM PDT by microgood
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To: McLynnan

I havent been following this saga. I am sure most of you have seen the thing about him farting on TV...around the 5 minute mark.

He looks like such a sleazebag
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8843203


77 posted on 10/17/2009 11:27:22 AM PDT by RummyChick
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78 posted on 10/17/2009 11:35:34 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Humbug

For it to NOT have been a hoax the following “coincidences” had to take place: The balloon had to suddenly untether on its own AT THE SAME TIME the 10 year old brother mistakenly “witnessed” Falcon climb in the balloon; AND, at the exact same time, Falcon also had to vanish for hours -(he must have fallen out)- & coincidentally Falcon did vanish for hours because his dad happened to scare him earlier in the day, and while everyone is looking under every rock for him, they don’t even think to look in his favorite hiding spot... and, as you point out, how incredibly coincidental that this freakish event all happened to a family that is dying for the media spotlight


79 posted on 10/17/2009 12:32:58 PM PDT by jilliane
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To: jilliane

http://www.blippitt.com/balloon-boy-liftoff-video

Unless that balloon has a history of getting loose on this guy this video taken I guess by one of the kids shows dear old daddy right there when this thing takes flight. And there is NO way he could have believed his kid was hiding in the darn thing.


80 posted on 10/17/2009 12:39:20 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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