Child Floats Away in Balloon

alveraz said:
Is that a quote? What news said that? The news actually said, "the dad was grandstanding his science videos"? One, that's not even appropriate grammar and two, no journalist would report that as news without details to back it up. Let me know your source, I'd love to research that one.
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Grandstanding was my word, news said his dad was showing the media his science videos while the search was underway.

It was on CNN from a reporter that was there.
 
jkc123 said:
Alveraz, how many times have you called the cops because your kids were hiding from you?
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My hope would be every time it coincides with a balloon taking off and his other kid saying the first kid was in there.

jkc123 said:
My point has always been that the media over-reacted and that IMHO this story was fishy.
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How should the media have reacted when they were told a 6 year old kid was flying around alone in a balloon?



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Jim, the media and law inforement did the correct thing, that was the search and other investigations. Kudos to them!

Great coverage :) it was all over the internet and every meda outlet in an hour.
 
Did the footage of the balloon landing look a little to sharp to you guys?

Could have been a Sony.
 
jkc123 said:
LOL

spot on
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Chip/jkc

How old are you guys? I ask because I'm pretty sure I'm arguing with a teenager. No one can be this resolute in the face of logic or reason. I remember being a teenager, and I could argue for hours that black was white.

You're not listening to anything but your own voice at this point. There is no hoax. The kid was hiding for fear he'd get his butt whipped. If there is a hoax at all, it's between two very dumb siblings that thought it would be funny and they will soon enough get what's coming to them by their parents.

To presume either parent were involved in this as a hoax is not only absurd but lacking any merit or valid evidence. You have yet to offer up a reason for them to be involved in this "hoax". All you have left is this strange directional shift toward sensationalism, which has us all perplexed as the media did what they needed to do by covering a story is that is quite frankly, sensational. Incidentally, CNN ended the coverage the moment the kid was found.
 
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alveraz said:
Every time my 6 year old takes off in a balloon I call the cops.
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alveraz said:
How old are you man? I ask because I'm pretty sure I'm arguing with a teenager. No one can be this resolute in the face of logic or reason. I remember being a teenager, and I could argue for hours that black was white.

You're not listening to anything but your own voice at this point. There is no hoax. The kid was hiding for fear he'd get his butt whipped. If there is a hoax at all, it's between two very dumb siblings that thought it would be funny and they will soon enough get what's coming to them by their parents.

To presume either parent were involved in this as a hoax is not only absurd but lacking any merit or valid evidence. You have yet to offer up a reason for them to be involved in this "hoax". All you have left is this strange directional shift toward sensationalism, which has us all perplexed as the media did what they needed to do by covering a story is that is quite frankly, sensational.
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Ok.

I haven't been a teenager in decades my friend.

It's amazing to me how certain and sure folks seem of something that appears to be, eager to jump to conclusions, and dismissive (in some cases hostile) of any divergent pov.

At the end of the day thankfully there wasn't a kid up there even though many thought that there was and couldn't imagine otherwise.

I simply stated that I thought it was a hoax (i.e. deception/ruse which btw it turned out to be) and the media overreacted (like many) based on what I thought were implausible facts.

We know now that the facts of the story have changed several times and that the dad wants to be on TV.

I find it unlikely that a 6yr old can hide from hysterical parents and police for very long in his own house; did he have help, maybe maybe not.

Alveraz, you say that my opinion lacks any merit or valid evidence, prove to me that it's not a hoax. Where is your evidence?
 
alveraz said:
Chip/jkc

How old are you guys? I ask because I'm pretty sure I'm arguing with a teenager. No one can be this resolute in the face of logic or reason. I remember being a teenager, and I could argue for hours that black was white.

You're not listening to anything but your own voice at this point. There is no hoax. The kid was hiding for fear he'd get his butt whipped. If there is a hoax at all, it's between two very dumb siblings that thought it would be funny and they will soon enough get what's coming to them by their parents.

To presume either parent were involved in this as a hoax is not only absurd but lacking any merit or valid evidence. You have yet to offer up a reason for them to be involved in this "hoax". All you have left is this strange directional shift toward sensationalism, which has us all perplexed as the media did what they needed to do by covering a story is that is quite frankly, sensational. Incidentally, CNN ended the coverage the moment the kid was found.
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I'm 14 going on 12 wishing I was 6 and weighed 45 lbs so I could attempt to go up in a home made ballon I'd like to build.

Assumptions from previous history tend to lead to more accurate predictions. That's all I'm saying. You can add your own meaning however you want and I will do the same :)
 
I am still completely baffled how you can think anyone over-reacted when they thought the kid was up in a balloon. What should they have done?

And, a ruse or a hoax is intentional. This (unless shown to be otherwise) does not seem to be intentional.
 
This is interesting, I was just told by a reliable source (that i won't name on an nternet thread) that said when the dad was showing the media various sorts of his footage he was making deals selling rights to air it. CNN paid $37k for some to air for thier news program, other news sources also bought rights. This is while the search was going on.
 
Ok, so the kid didn't intend to hide in the box. I see.

This story to me seemed too impossible to believe from the get go. I'm watching thinking... ok a kid is inside the balloon.
Funny, doesn't look like there is anyone in that thing. How did he get in there? How is he staying in there? Who said he was in there in the first place?

Oh, the kids older brother...waitaminute...the family tried to get on wife swap...

No one in the balloon...wait... story changes...he wasn't in the balloon...he's was in a basket attached to the balloon...OMG...where's the basket....

No basket....

Kid was found in a box...he was in the garage all this time...eluding parents and police.

Dad gives a press conference...the media fall in love w/this wacky weather ballooning family.

Dad writes a book on child rearing.

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The first call the dad made was too a local TV station. Confirmed on CNN. Is that proof enough for ya'?
 
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This just in from AP...

The boy's father, Richard Heene, said the family was tinkering with the balloon Thursday and that he scolded Falcon for getting inside a compartment on the craft. He said Falcon's brother had seen him inside the compartment before it took off and that's why they thought he was in there when it launched. But the boy fled to the attic at some point after the scolding and was never in the balloon during its two-hour, 50-mile journey through two counties. "I yelled at him. I'm really sorry I yelled at him," Heene said as he hugged his son during a news conference. "I was in the attic and he scared me because he yelled at me," Falcon said. "That's why I went in the attic."

When asked about baseless accusations regarding a publicity stunt, Richard remarked, "That's horrible after the crap we just went through. No."

I'm done with this conspiracy/hoax garbage. Adios.
 
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