6-Year-Old Trapped in Runaway Balloon Over Denver: Watch Live:
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=4&openAIR=true
More info here:
http://www.foxnews.com/
Posted on 10/15/2009 11:45:55 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Rescuers are tracking and chasing a "homemade flying saucer" that is in flight with a 6-year-old, by himself, on board.
The incident started this morning in Fort Collins when the boy got into the balloon-like device, which was built by an adult, and it came loose from a tether, according to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office.
The contraption could rise as high as 10,000 feet, the sheriff's office said.
The home-made flying saucer was last seen in flight over Weld County.
The sheriff's office is working the Federal Aviation Administration to determine how to best get the boy down.
The homemade airplane was tethered in Fort Collins when the boy got onboard and it floated away. (Lisa Ecklund via 9News)
The six-year-old boy was by himself on board the hommade aircraft. (Courtesy Lisa Ecklund, via 9News)
The craft could fly as high as 10,000 feet, according to the Weld County Sheriff's Office. (Lisa Ecklund via 9News)
Bingo, I was right!!
"What if you had two swallows, with a string attached to it?.....gripping by the husk"
Where is Sky King when we need him?
See, I did it to myself.
I believed the Headline and didn’t read the Story at the link to find out the facts.
My, Bad.
You just can’t trust those Reporters.
bump
Is Shep crying yet? We cubicle bound need to know...
Every network is using the same joke.
6-Year-Old Trapped in Runaway Balloon Over Denver: Watch Live:
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=4&openAIR=true
More info here:
http://www.foxnews.com/
Looks like it may have had a hard landing—not a tree in sight. TV saying it may be down already. Rescue vehicles speeding to some destination.
His brother said he went in the ballon.
Something doesn’t seem right to me. A six year old boy weighs... what... 50 or 60 lbs? If that thing is only 20 feet in diameter I don’t think that’s enough helium to lift him. Maybe... but my hunch is no.
The way it’s floating and bobbing makes me wonder if it is empty.
At least... I hope it turns out he’s not in there. That’s the best outcome of this.
This thing isn’t a foot over 3k right now, I don’t care what the news is reporting
I hope he is really just down the street at a buddy’s house wathcing the whole thing on TV.
You sure did hear that — living a couple of miles from the US Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center, I thought some of the storm chasers would do almost anything but this takes the cake. Made to track storms and his son climbs into this?
Exactly what I just heard too...
Hard to contemplate if in fact a little boy is in this balloon..
I'm close to throwing up..
sw
Its not huge, smaller than a living room, 5 ft tall
This guy might be able to help:
http://www.patricksaviation.com/videos/pdgls/3224/
[I’d bet this thing will be down within 15 minutes.]
Even if it comes down slow, it would be a very rough landing for a child!
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