I knew it.

Not a hoax, but after the thing landed and no one was in it, I figures as much.



/was 6 once.

I fully expect to see a South Park take on this within a week or two.

Who'll be the balloon kid? Ike? Butters? Kenny?

sseye: oh, great, he's safe.

now let's kill him.

THIS.

Damned kid. Not in a cynical way, I would love to see some sort of report of people's internet usage, loss of productivity and dollars expended local, state and federal today. The outcome is awesome but I think it would be a fascinating report. Hell, I was just happy to not hear about health care for four hours.

/Hummms
"What the world needs now
is boys in balloons.
They're the only thing that are just too small to fly..."

/sorry
//

Quoting myself:
Of course, this will turn out to be nothing but a prank. The kids set the balloon free, and the six-year-old is hiding.

It remains to be seen whether or not this was a prank. Given that the older brother claims to have seen the six-year-old get into the balloon, I'm still leaning towards prank.

In any case, it's a win-win for this attention-whoring family.

Thank goodness! I was hoping it was just a prank he and his brother were playing.

All worth it for that 9/11 comment in the other thread

The question comes to mind: Did the kid hide or was the family in it to gain media attention/notoriety??
:(

jimi32: sseye: so far, fark is the first place i see reporting that he's been found...

This!

twitter followed closely behind.

of course, next time something like this happens, i'm totally going to post something bogus, claiming to have heard it on my scanner.

oh we're sending our love
down a cardboard box
in the attic

When I was about eight years old I was playing at a friend's house down our block. My mom called on the phone and said it was time to head home for dinner. I walked home (five minute walk) and came in the front door, and nobody heard me enter. I thought it would be funny to hide in the closet to mess with everyone. About five minutes later my mom opened the front door and looked down the block, then called my friend's mom. When she heard that I had left ten minutes ago she panicked and went outside. They got flashlights (it was getting dark) and started looking around, then called the police. At that point I opened the closet door and shouted "Surprise!", and promptly got my beaten.

My bet is this kid did the same thing.

And the made for tv movie will be ready in 3 days. Amazing!

Paryb: Wonder if the parents knew that the apparatus would probably not carry the child.

There's knowing something, and there's being told your kid is in it.

They might have known, but I'm guessing logical thought went out the window when told their kid was in it.

He was found in my box

CNN Headline news biatch is wondering now if the Child Services should get involved. Clearly this menacing child is not being raised properly since he obviously is acting like a 6 year old and made fools of the national media following this circus.

I say there should be a government agency to remove egg from the face of media morons.

approves

Knew it all along.

mbillips: Jeez, people, look at the size of that balloon. Is anybody dumb enough to think a helium balloon that small could lift off the ground with a kid aboard (apparently).

You'd need a gas bag at least 5-10 times that size to lift a 50-pound payload. Blimps are huge for a reason.

Hi, my name is mbillips and I can neither do the math involved to make this claim, nor read any of the bazillion comments refuting the claim I have made.

Thwack: I fully expect to see a South Park take on this within a week or two.

Who'll be the balloon kid? Ike? Butters? Kenny?

I want it to be Cartman, simply for all the great fat jokes that would come out of it.

It's a streetlight, he's hiding in a streetlight.

I'm totally grounding my 5 year old when I get home, just because...

mikemil828: FormlessOne: toilet engineer: Wow. Was hiding in the garage attic, in a box.

Jesus. I'm glad he's okay, but Jesus...

And now, the parents will be billed for the tens of thousands of dollars wasted looking for this little bastard, right?

Right?

Probably gonna come out of his college fund


Nah, WifeSwap will pick up the tab - look at all the advertising they got today...

I didn't watch a second of it on TV, and I am LMFAO at everyone that has been sucked into this latest media free-for-all for the last few hours.

Suckers.

/back to torrents

mark12A: I know of a little boy who's not getting dinner tonight...

His dinner will still be there, and it will still be warm.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Mart Laar's beard shaver: Lt. Cheese Weasel: ChaoticLimbs: His name is now Falcon Mudd.

Well, he gets hot chicks to spread across the galaxy anyway...



Don't dare turn this into a hot Star Trek chick threadjack.

/or do ...



So ronery...

Harcourt Fenton Mudd! What have you been doing?! Where have you been?! (sniffs) Have you been drinking???!

Yo, Fark thread 4703125, Imma let you finish, but I just had to say that Fark thread 2018473 had the best happy ending ever.

Outshined_One: Thwack: I fully expect to see a South Park take on this within a week or two.

Who'll be the balloon kid? Ike? Butters? Kenny?

I want it to be Cartman, simply for all the great fat jokes that would come out of it.

Ike was my guess as soon as I heard about the kid in the balloon.

Im guessing if the brothers really DID see him get into the balloon it went like this, they saw him get in the balloon..went to tell the parents...Falcon got out when he realized it was going up or when he noticed his brothers were going to rat him out, and knew hed be in trouble so he kicked it in a box in the attic for 5 hours or whatever.

UH HUH---OF COURSE HE HAS BEEN AT THE HOUSE THE WHOLE TIME--I think they should be fined for EMS services..

Dear State of Colorado:

Don't be too worried. We know what it's like to be Punk'd on National TV when searching for a missing person. You'll be the butt of jokes for a few weeks, and then it will get better.

Love,

The Madison Police Department

nekom: THIS. How easy is it to fathom a 6 year old fiddling around with the ropes and lets the thing go, thinks "OH FARK, DADDY IS GOING TO KILL ME FOR THIS!!!" and running and hiding? Very normal reaction for a 6 year old mind.

If he thought it was possible that that wacky contraption could have carried one of his kids off, he should never have had it back there.

Yeah, another reason I suspect that the parents WEREN'T thinking the balloon had carried their kid off. If they really had, they also would have called 911 I'd think.

And absolutely Worldwalker nailed it too - a lot of people searching for the kid in the house probably weren't searching well enough because they didn't realize just how well paranoid kids can and will hide. If the kid had just wandered off unrelated to the balloon, then calling him or just doing a cursory walk through the house would have probably found him, but no, he was in a box when already inside a not-so-well-used room. Hiding big time.

/not a parent
//but have done the "oh shiat time to hide" thing

Kirk's_Toupee: i bet his older brother convinced him to untie the balloon. then go hide.

That's what I was thinking.

Had the whole nation stareing at a balloon for 5 hours?!
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
What's his Fark name?
I'll be the first to buy him TotalFark.

SH: CNN Headline news biatch is wondering now if the Child Services should get involved. Clearly this menacing child is not being raised properly since he obviously is acting like a 6 year old and made fools of the national media following this circus.

I say there should be a government agency to remove egg from the face of media morons.

Only if the egg is "powered by helium"

/christ

I feel bad for the poor Afghani girl who simply wanted some American friendship and was crushed to death by the falling, delivered boy whose parachute failed to open.

/why can't we be friends?

witchofthedogs [TotalFark] 2009-10-15 05:17:28 PM
This whole situation simply reinforces my belief that Wolf Blitzer is an illiterate cock.

And you would be correct (unlike all of wolf's answers
http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0909/wolf_bombs_on_jeopardy.html

I have found Fark's one weakness: balloon kid