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Fort Collins boy in loose aircraft (6 yr old boy found hiding at home not in balloon)
Denver Post ^ | October 15, 2009 | Kieran Nicholson

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)


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: balloon; balloonboy; denver; faa; falconheene; jiffypop; missing
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To: dragnet2

No boy in balloon!

What is this — a hoax by this dingbat family? This family appeared on the idiot tv show “Wife Swap”. They are not too tightly wrapped.

Jerks!


481 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:19 PM PDT by Palladin (ACORN is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Arec Barrwin
Just as I thought, he's not in there....Some little boy is in for a baddddddddd spankin'.......

Glad it turned out ok.

482 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:24 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Who's your Long Legged MacDaddy?)
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To: Never on my watch
Doesn't look good. They looked insideand the ambulence pulled up. Either no one inside, or the boy is unresponsive.
483 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:25 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons again st Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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To: 80skid

Good one.


484 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:28 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (President Milli Vanilli wins a NOBEL! Palin/Cheney 2012)
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To: Cinnamontea; Hillarys Gate Cult

Event that sounds to have been too high an estimate. Thanks for the reports.


485 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: New Yawk Minute

There was earlier speculation that he may have fallen out of the balloon ... while in flight..


486 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:40 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Sloth
You watch CNN? Shep on Fox is embarrassing himself again.
487 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:41 PM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

He fell out? How could he fall out..that basket was closed.


488 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:42 PM PDT by New Yawk Minute
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To: TomGuy

Could he have survived a fall?? Prayers!


489 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:43 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Never on my watch

balloon empty!


490 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:44 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: deport
What next..... was the child there to begin with or was this a hoax......

Did they pass "health care" while we were watching this?

491 posted on 10/15/2009 12:43:48 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Obama's Blackberry, who's on the other end?)
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To: dragnet2

My guess is the kid was never in the ballon or he fell out and is DOA.


492 posted on 10/15/2009 12:44:04 PM PDT by stockpirate ("if my thought-dreams could be seen. They'd probably put my head in a guillotine" Dylan)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Shoot, I made a reply as they were looking and apparently looked at the TV and didn’t push “send”, lol

Looks like no child in there after all.


493 posted on 10/15/2009 12:44:09 PM PDT by potlatch (Actions Speak Louder Than Words)
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To: The Toll

I don’t trust former REALITY show contestants. These people will do ANYTHING to get back on television!

Great way to get publicity for his Balloon invention...


494 posted on 10/15/2009 12:44:10 PM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: AliVeritas

I hate to say this, but you have to suspect the parents. If something happened to them, this is one way you could cover it up.

Not saying that happened, but you have to consider it.


495 posted on 10/15/2009 12:44:15 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: dragnet2

Crying.... Please, Lord, let him have jumped out safely.


496 posted on 10/15/2009 12:44:16 PM PDT by txhurl (It's only a matter of time before FreeRepublic has this fraud's scalp on our lodge pole.)
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To: DCBryan1

Agreed! Same here.

That thing came down between two sets of wires, very lucky not to have been blown into them.


497 posted on 10/15/2009 12:44:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Deficit spending, trade deficits, unsecure mortages, worthless paper... ... not a problem. Oh yeah?)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

Um... has anyone called the parents?


498 posted on 10/15/2009 12:44:25 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Lord forgive me... we know he's anti-Christ. The pride and chaos get him the pit again.)
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To: Palladin

Dude, what if the kid got on and fell out? Show a little compassion until this is figured out.


499 posted on 10/15/2009 12:44:27 PM PDT by rhc2000
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To: Arec Barrwin

He must have fallen out at some point during his flight. God bless and comfort his family.


500 posted on 10/15/2009 12:44:32 PM PDT by LatinaGOP (But then again, I homeschool)
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