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6-Year Old Boy Floats Away in Balloon

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I'm hoping he and his brother "accidentally" untied it and made up a story that the one brother was in it.

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My oldest is 6 and looks just like this kid. If he is dead, I am going home to drink tonight. That would be just . . . really, really bad.

I was watching this story around 4 o'clock when the thing landed and there was no boy in the balloon. Any updates?

He's alive and home. My guess is my hope was correct.

CNN says he's home. No word which laundry hamper he was hiding in. :lol:

Does anybody else think that this is just some sick publicity stunt by the dad?

He was hiding in a box in the attic over the garage.

Does anybody else think that this is just some sick publicity stunt by the dad?

 

No. I think the 2 boys messed up and came up w/ a story so they wouldn't get in as much trouble.

He was hiding in a box in the attic over the garage.
If'n I war him Id hide too .
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Kids that made a big mistake or daddy trying to get his new invention on national television?

I left work early today and watched the ENTIRE incident on television. When the balloon landed and it was empty I couldn't help but think back to the Geraldo empty Al Capone vault story. Only this time, I was glad the story ended without a climax.

Does anybody else think that this is just some sick publicity stunt by the dad?

 

Ding Ding Ding....

Ding Ding Ding....

 

It's hard to convince kids to lie to cops and for parents to pretend to be that frantic for a joke. It's way more believable to me that the kid was hiding on his own. Maybe I'm just a skeptic.

 

If it was a hoax by the Dad he should be financially responsible for all the government money spent on the rescue and charged w/ a crime. I just can't jump to that conclusion.

Does anybody else think that this is just some sick publicity stunt by the dad?

 

Maybe. In one story I saw, the dad said:

 

"That's horrible after the crap we just went through. No."

 

The kid said he went to hide in the attic because daddy yelled at him for fiddling around with the balloon earlier in the day.

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The best thing other than the child being safe is that this idiot's balloon invention was destroyed :lol:

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