Child Floats Away in Balloon

I totally get the whole parental empathy thing and how could any sane person do this to his/her own kid; but there are a LOT of bad parents out there.

Parents put their kids in the middle of adult crap; political debate, parents fighting, divorce, you name it.

Bad parents forget that the kid is the main priority and not whatever delusional crap is going on in the adults head.

I feel sorry for the kid; like nektonic said these kids have live w/this the rest of their lives.
 
from link below
... It is unclear what Richard Heene meant by a "big announcement," but many believed he might come clean with a confession that the Heene family were indeed the perpetrators of a hoax. Others believed he might offer further proof that the balloon boy incident was not a hoax. And there are those who, with tongue in cheek, believe he might use the opportunity to pitch a new reality show.

But 10 a.m. came and Richard Heene stepped outside his Fort Collins house, the spot of so much frenetic activity on Thursday as authorities and volunteers attempted to find the missing boy. CNN reported that he carried a small cardboard box and told the gathered reporters to put their questions in the box and he would answer them later.

And then he went back inside ...
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2296095/heene_family_hoax_or_not_richard_heene.html?cat=9
 
The Dude: It's like what Lenin said... you look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh...
Donny: I am the walrus.
The Dude: You know what I'm trying to say...
Donny: I am the walrus.
Walter Sobchak: That ****ing *****...
The Dude: Oh yeah!
Donny: I am the walrus.
Walter Sobchak: Shut the **** up, Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
Donny: What the **** is he talking about, Dude?
 
I have trouble believing two things:
1. That balloon could carry a 6 year old boy thousands of feet in the air for several miles.
2. That a 6 year old boy would only weigh 37 lbs.
 
I built once a hot air balloon out of materials from home depot (costs were less than $200) that could carry an adult. The balloon was huge (I still have pictures of it if anybody is interested) and it needed to be, else it would never have had adequate lifting power. Therefore, it was obvious to me that such a small balloon couldn't carry a 6 year old....
 
Ian-T said:
Federal charges pending.

What a nunbnut that guy is.
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ChipG said:
Glad to hear they are pressing federal charges and not a misdomeanor. What a jack ass.
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Yeah something about the fact that he used the phone (maybe to call the FAA across state lines?) is one of the things allowing them to go federal. The list of charges is getting longe:

conspiracy, a felony;
contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a felony;
attempting to influence a public servant, a felony;
and false reporting to authorities, a midemeanor.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Aheadofth...loon-boy-family-face-charges/story?id=8856041

Is attempting to influence a public servant a bribary charge?
 
Terry_Lasater said:
I have trouble believing two things:
1. That balloon could carry a 6 year old boy thousands of feet in the air for several miles.
2. That a 6 year old boy would only weigh 37 lbs.
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That was in fact my initial reaction and doubting it could lift and carry even 37 lbs. I'm actually surprised that the authorities hadn't just consulted with some engineers to determine the likelihood that that particular configuration balloon could carry such a weight at all.

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Rick Meyer said:
Hoax aside, could someone please explain how two military helicopters could cost $14,500 dollars? How much could gas cost? And the pilots are getting near 7k for a ride?:huh:
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That's like saying: "How could a movie cost millions of dollars? A camera? Actors? How much could that cost?"

There's a lot more to keeping those birds in the air than gas and pilots. Ground crews, flight support crews, air traffic controllers, it all adds up pretty quick.
 
Chris Santucci said:
That was in fact my initial reaction and doubting it could lift and carry even 37 lbs. I'm actually surprised that the authorities hadn't just consulted with some engineers to determine the likelihood that that particular configuration balloon could carry such a weight at all.

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They did. Based on the initial dimensions of the balloon that authorities had it was calculated that it was possible to carry about 100 lbs on the outside edge. But, for one thing, the dimensions of the balloon were actually a bit smaller than what Heene reported to the authorities. For another thing, I don't think they could have called B.S. at that point. You have to go on worst case scenario even if they're calculations showed that the balloon couldn't carry a kid. They couldn't have said - sorry no way - and packed it in because what if the calculations were wrong and the kid was in there, even if it was a remote or seemingly impossible chance, etc.
 
Rick Meyer said:
Hoax aside, could someone please explain how two military helicopters could cost $14,500 dollars? How much could gas cost? And the pilots are getting near 7k for a ride?:huh:
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A smaller bell jet ranger that I rented a few months ago was $2,500 an hour, my little single engine plane cost me $600ish an hour to run. Choppers aren't cheap and the military ones cost about double / tripple what the smaller jet rangers cost to run. It's not just the fuel that cost money, every part times out so it's cost needs to be pro rated in the hourly operating cost.

EDIT: I thought the $14,500 was cheap. Want an expensive hobby, go buy an airplane or helicopter.
 
Chris Santucci said:
That was in fact my initial reaction and doubting it could lift and carry even 37 lbs. I'm actually surprised that the authorities hadn't just consulted with some engineers to determine the likelihood that that particular configuration balloon could carry such a weight at all.

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They did, go back and read this thread, they were lied to about the size of it.
 
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