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Helium Balloon Lands Without Boy Inside
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Posted on 10/15/2009 1:24:44 PM PDT by Steelfish
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:24:44 PM PDT
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
Give Dad the bill for an idiot nonsense.
Law enforcement shouldn't be spending their time on this. For crying out loud, this is a SIX YEAR OLD BOY!
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:28:43 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Steelfish
...
“Authorities were looking into reports that something fell from the balloon shortly after it took off from the home. A search was under way near Platteville, 5 to 10 miles outside of Greeley, Colorado.”
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http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-balloon-101509,0,919382.story
Let’s hope the SIX YEAR OLD, unattended little boy was NOT what might have fallen OUR OF THE BALLOON after a sharp turn. This Dad needs some talking to. I see this as child abuse. He took advantage of his son for publicity. What moronic parents!
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:33:04 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Steelfish
I’m guessing hoax. hope so for little boy’s sake and he is ok.
To: Steelfish
Looks like a job for...
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:38:03 PM PDT
by
TruthHound
("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
To: Steelfish
They are saying that the boy untied the tethers and THEN got inside...that is not possible. As soon as he untethered the balloon it would start rising.
That only leaves the possibility that AFTER the boy got inside, someone else untied it.
OR...
He never got inside.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:38:15 PM PDT
by
RetSignman
(Townhalls ..."We have seen the Patriots and they are us")
To: Steelfish
Having watched the relevant episodes of Mythbusters, I feel qualified to say this.
I saw the balloon, there is no way that it was big enough to carry off a 6 yo kid.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:38:17 PM PDT
by
dangerdoc
To: Steelfish
They said something fell from it also. I pray that was not the small kid!
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:40:49 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
(Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
To: dangerdoc
I would agree, but they were saying on TV that the gondola, as it were, was 5-feet across, which would be plenty of room. How much air it would hold is another matter.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:41:19 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
To: dangerdoc
“Not big enough to carry a 6 years old child” - this is an Obama era starved child, at six he would probably weigh no more that 210 or 210 pounds.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:41:22 PM PDT
by
Hans
(th)
To: Tanniker Smith
Mythbusters actually tested how many helium ballons it would take to lift a child. It was a huge number that filled up an aircraft hanger.
That balloon did not look that large when it was down.
To: Steelfish
IF this isn’t a hoax the boy may have briefly ridden it like Captain Ahab. I saw no way “inside” that thing ... but I’m praying its a hoax.
To: dangerdoc
it also appeared to be drifting along at quite a clip—almost like a plastic shopping bag. Doubtful it could lift, no less carry a small boy and sail that fast.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:51:10 PM PDT
by
two23
(czars are for commies)
To: Steelfish
The tale of the experimental helium air balloon sailing above the Colorado plains for two hours on Thursday afternoon captivated the nation First I've heard of it.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:54:40 PM PDT
by
Huck
("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
To: RetSignman
“That only leaves the possibility that AFTER the boy got inside, someone else untied it.”
I hope the older brother didn’t do it as a prank.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:54:58 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(This is the time of year when ACORNS fall.)
To: Huck
For a good hour+ that is all the cable news channels covered.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:55:36 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(This is the time of year when ACORNS fall.)
To: two23
Doubtful it could lift, no less carry a small boy and sail that fast.
Agreed. And the video I saw of it showed it spinning, which would be even more unlikely if it had a 50 pound payload.
I don't think he was inside.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:57:00 PM PDT
by
astyanax
(Liberalism: Logic's retarded cousin.)
To: Rebelbase
So glad I cancelled my tv service a while back.
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posted on
10/15/2009 1:57:38 PM PDT
by
Huck
("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
To: Tanniker Smith
It’s not the size of the gondola but the volume of helium necessary. On mythbusters I think they used something like 1000 balloons and coulcd’t get a very small child off the ground.
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posted on
10/15/2009 2:01:13 PM PDT
by
Lx
(Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
To: dangerdoc
Yes, but if I understand it right, mylar balloons hold a denser bit of helium. I know it wasn’t THAT many that lifted Adam in his lawn chair.
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posted on
10/15/2009 2:17:20 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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