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6 year old boy floats away..

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eljusto.
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I got home and saw this on the news
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091015/APA/910151462
Apparently the boy is at 6,000 feet somewhere above CO in a ufo balloon?



Oct 15 2009 3:02PM
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eljusto.
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This makes me think they staged it even more. They are extremely creepy, and the Dad even says that it makes them happy everytime they are on tv.
Oct 16 2009 7:25PM
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.frenchy
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lawl ^
Oct 16 2009 7:30PM
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ButteredToast.
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hahahahahahahhahahahahhaha my god
Oct 16 2009 8:17PM
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Kmania
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this was hilarious! such a dumb show
Oct 16 2009 8:19PM
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goombastompa
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hahaha wow that family is fucking crazy
Oct 16 2009 8:34PM
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skiminnesota
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the more i see of this. the more i think it has a very good chance of being a setup. i was watching CNN last night when the kid said "it was for the show" or whatever his exact words were. i smell a publicity stunt.
Oct 16 2009 8:38PM
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daringharry.
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this has been said about 20 times
Oct 16 2009 8:50PM
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skiminnesota
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cool?
 i haven't sifted through this entire thread. even if i had, i would have still posted my opinion on the matter.
Oct 16 2009 8:57PM
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captaincrunch
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FUCK THIS THREAD.

the story is over. now we just have people coming in and posting the SAME FUCKING INFORMATION over and over and over. AT LEAST read the thread please.

PLEASE.
Oct 16 2009 9:13PM
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Goobie
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apparently the "rescue" cost 40 000$. way to waste more government money during the recession
Oct 16 2009 9:52PM
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Valind
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Oct 16 2009 9:53PM
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captaincrunch
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this is new, useful info.
thank you.
Oct 16 2009 9:54PM
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WorthDaMoney
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falcon does it with his mouth. watch his lips
Oct 16 2009 11:29PM
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Talacious[Tally]
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oh good old fort collins, i love this place(literally i really do, best place to grow up)

Oct 17 2009 12:41AM
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skiminnesota
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i heard they were at one point trying to pitch their own reality tv show.

but im not sure what they might have, or might not have been trying to get by this stunt. if it was in fact a stunt, pure speculation on my part. maybe they wanted their 1minute of fame?
Oct 17 2009 1:01AM
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XtRemE11
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40,000 dollars is nothing to the government, it will literally have no effect at all.
Oct 17 2009 1:13AM
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sammiedee
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Oct 17 2009 10:37AM
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.frenchy
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lol ^
Oct 17 2009 10:49AM
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ButteredToast.
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Why's he putting sunglasses on top of sunglasses?
Oct 18 2009 12:23AM
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wintersway
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See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Oct 18 2009 1:53AM
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Tasche
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New: authorities are probably pressing charges. Also if possible, please lower ski Minnesota's karma. 0 is not low enough.
Oct 18 2009 4:13AM
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skiminnesota
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dont worry pal. i think your karma rating is at either 8 or 9 on my page.

anywho, what did i do in this thread to warrant your vendetta against me?

looks as though my speculation was possibly correct? i havent watched the news at all this weekend im a bit out of the loop.

hahaha i really dont see what i posted that would have so enraged you.
Oct 18 2009 10:04AM
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el_chupacabra
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can't help but claim...the family lives on the other side of my neighborhood
Oct 18 2009 5:44PM
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.frenchy
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they did it for the attention, wow.
Oct 19 2009 4:35PM
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kepler.
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Hahah they're getting charges pressed against them.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113908194&ps=cprs
Oct 19 2009 4:38PM
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Tasche
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So it has become apparent that there was some level of hoax going on and that the parents are pretty insane.

However from reading that article and all the other stuff I have a different theory. I think that they had planned to release the balloon and say it was an accident and get attention by having this giant strange looking balloon flying through the sky. I don't think they intended to say their son was in the balloon but after the initial take off they thought he was in the balloon. They found him minutes later and after seeing all the media attention they were getting the told him to hide.

What a fucking weird story.

I hate that this guy calls himself a scientist.
Oct 19 2009 4:49PM
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daringharry.
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Oct 21 2009 9:01AM
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Larz-the-Ninja
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thats impressive
Oct 21 2009 10:35AM
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Static
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looks like the neighbors are getting a little sick of it?

Oct 21 2009 11:30AM
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k-rob
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lol wtf the guy in the yellow shirt was a douchebag.
Oct 21 2009 5:19PM
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WorthDaMoney
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baha. that guy is overreacting a bit. just call 5-0 instead of bitching to the crowd of people
Oct 22 2009 7:50PM
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hartig
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..he did
did you even watch the video..?
Oct 22 2009 8:55PM
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T-Holt
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That kid trolled all of us.
Oct 22 2009 9:10PM
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WorthDaMoney
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yes i did, but did he not proceed to confronting the crowd after the guy walked up to his car.
?.. clearly there was no harm done when the reporter or whoever walked up beside his car... and that was what pushed him over the edge? youve got to be kidding me. and he had called the cops before that had even happened.
what i was trying to say before was that he shouldnt have done anything else but call the police, i didnt say anything about him not calling the police?
Oct 24 2009 1:10PM
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Ski_ThEast
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wow one of the first people to repond in this tread said he was porbably just taking a shit.  u guessed it

Oct 24 2009 1:43PM
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snwbrdmilf
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Why? His town was being abducted by the paparazzi. That's what they are, not reporters. He had every right to stand up for himself. People who do harm instead of good don't deserve silence from those they intrude. People who flock innocent lives for "the story" can suck it. There is a right way, and a wrong way, to go about your business. He called the police. He did the right thing.

I would have been just as annoyed and pissed off as that guy.
Oct 25 2009 1:00PM
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Commonwealth
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Well what the fuck were they supposed to do?? Not try to rescue the kid they thought was in the balloon? Fucking moron.

As said before, the family is a bunch of fucking whack-jobs. TLC has come out and said that they pitched a show to them months ago, but that they passed on it. They're losers.

And honestly, what did Minnesota do? All he did was reiterate the general opinion of this thread.
Oct 25 2009 1:05PM
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WorthDaMoney
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you basically agreed with everything i said. you misunderstood me though. i said that he was wrong by flipping shit over that one guy walking upto his car. i said nothing about him being stupid for getting mad at the situation. i said that if he had already called the cops, why try and start more shit? but im canadian, we believe in peace and all that shit, so maybe you (most likely american) think it is okay to defend yourself from a non-violent situation, with violence... yes that is a generalization; however, its also a fact
Oct 26 2009 4:06PM
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snwbrdmilf
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But...he didn't lay a hand on the guy. And you can't say that he was going to, because you don't personally know that. He was scaring him for sure, which I would have done too. It didn't escalate to violence until the douchebag in the yellow shirt jumped on him.

And don't give me that American/Canadian bullshit, please. Its so ridiculous. I may not think the best of some of the citizens I live among, but its sad that the pitiful ones are recognized more than the worthwhile ones.
Oct 26 2009 6:09PM
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WorthDaMoney
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what would any by-stander think of the situation if the guy got out of his car, already pissed before getting out, then basically runs infront of a guy just to stop right infront of him and talk to him? if any of us were there, the 14 year old part of our body would be saying " OOO BEEF", dont lie. thats why the yellow guy did something. i am not justifying the yellow shirt guy's actions whatsoever, im just saying that it is kinda obvious that it "looked" like he was going to be violent.

i had told you that it was a generalization so relax. and if i were to refer to america as being a peacefull non-violent place, it would be the same as me saying america has more black people than white people. everybody says things that are known facts even though it might demote the select people who are not part of that side of statistic. i have personally heard from americans that canada does feel like a safer place, mostly those from detroit who visit windsor every now and then.
Oct 26 2009 6:35PM
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_tilly
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Publicity stun, thats all there is to it
Oct 26 2009 6:45PM
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eljusto.
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WAT.











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Dec 6 2011 11:59AM
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.frenchy
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hahahaha wut
Dec 6 2011 12:02PM
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