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Boy in Balloon Hoax: 'We Did This for a Show'
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| 10/15/2009
| AP Via Fox News
Posted on 10/15/2009 9:00:26 PM PDT by americanophile
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Wow.
To: americanophile
Then they deserve to get a bill.
To: americanophile
I’m not sure it’s clear what Falcon meant, but I do think some further questioning is definitely in order here.
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posted on
10/15/2009 9:02:41 PM PDT
by
john in springfield
(One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
To: americanophile
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posted on
10/15/2009 9:03:41 PM PDT
by
Debacled
To: americanophile
Naming one’s kid “Falcon” is prima facie evidence of having a screw loose.
To: john in springfield
Agreed. The kid may have been referring to building the balloon in the first place...but then again, he was asked why he was hiding. That's a curious response.
Cute little fella though, glad nothing happened to him.
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posted on
10/15/2009 9:05:16 PM PDT
by
americanophile
(Sarcasm: satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language.)
To: americanophile
By what the media was reporting it seemed the parents weren’t acting like concerned parents, I may be wrong and probably am, but still something doesn’t seem right.
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posted on
10/15/2009 9:05:41 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: john in springfield
I’m not sure it’s clear what Falcon meant, but I do think some further questioning is definitely in order here.They did do some further questioning and the father clammed up and ended the interview because he was "appalled"!
This was a hoax! They need to get a warrant and then drag the kids in and question them outside the presence of their parents.
Apparently these clowns didn't call 911, they called the media when they claimed their son was carried away in the balloon. That should tell you something.
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posted on
10/15/2009 9:05:45 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Explains the interest in flight though...
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posted on
10/15/2009 9:06:12 PM PDT
by
americanophile
(Sarcasm: satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language.)
To: americanophile
Why does the movie “The Mosquito Coast” come to mind?
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posted on
10/15/2009 9:06:42 PM PDT
by
LearsFool
("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
To: americanophile
I should have seen it right away, but that was a tiny balloon, not more than a hundred cubic feet.
Filled with helium, it would only be able to carry a payload of five pounds, maybe.
To carry a fifty pound kid it would have had to be much, much larger. So large that the neighbors would have complained about it being in the back yard.
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posted on
10/15/2009 9:06:52 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Ask not what the Kennedys can do for you, but what you can do for the Kennedys.)
To: americanophile
Well - the kid could be exposing something - or he could be embarrassing the hell out of his parents.
Tough to tell - kids will say the darndest things at the worst moments and make you want to crawl under a rock.
I remember my son going up to a woman with a thick mustache and saying “are you a lady or a guy?”
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Naming one’s kid “Falcon” is prima facie evidence of having a screw loose.I'm just sayin'..
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posted on
10/15/2009 9:08:05 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
(Dont Tread on Me)
To: americanophile
To: americanophile
Video of Falcon's comment He says, "You guys said, we did it for the show"--now, he'd already been interviewed several times, I'm not sure Falcon actually understands what he's being asked here. Wolfie sure seems to be leading the witness, as it were!
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posted on
10/15/2009 9:09:45 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
To: americanophile
How big would a helium balloon have to be....
...to carry Michelle Obama?
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posted on
10/15/2009 9:10:15 PM PDT
by
Islam=Murder
(Hitler hated his Jewish side, Omoslem hates his white side.)
To: LearsFool
Was that the movie when that I believe Australian hooked up to a bunch of helium balloons in a aluminum lawn chair and traveled for miles? I caught a movie one night late and it was amusing!
To: LukeL
How can you say that? On the videos of the first interview after he was found, the dad and mom choked up several times and clutched Falcon even tighter than they were already holding him! There definitely WAS concern in their voices and actions there—or else these people are the best actors on the planet!
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posted on
10/15/2009 9:11:30 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
To: Islam=Murder
To: Scotswife
i was a single father. brought my date (now wife) inside to meet my 4 kids. the 6 yr old immediately asked her “did my dad get frisky?”
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posted on
10/15/2009 9:12:21 PM PDT
by
cd jones
(Liberals: spreading misery, calling it equality)
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