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Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« on: October 15, 2009, 01:46:55 PM »
FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A 6-year-old boy is floating over northeastern Colorado in a homebuilt balloon and authorities are racing to try and rescue him.

The balloon, in the shape of a flying saucer is covered in foil and filled with helium. It has a compartment for a passenger underneath. It lifted the boy into the air near Fort Collins Thursday morning after the balloon became untethered at the boy's home.

The father and son had apparently been working on the aircraft for some time.

Fort Collins police and other authorities have been alerted and Airtracker 7 has launched in an effort to locate the boy.

Airtracker 7 located the craft at 12:35 p.m. at about 8,000 feet in Weld County. It appeared to be slightly tilted.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21306839/detail.html

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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2009, 01:52:53 PM »
It's on CNN HLN right now.  Weird.

If you'll hold my hand we'll chase your dream across the sky
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away
My beautiful, my beautiful balloon
Balloon...
Up, up, and away.....   
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2009, 01:53:47 PM »
This is unbelievable. 
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2009, 01:54:58 PM »
I just keep repeating HOLY CRAP.  I just read that that dang balloon can get up to 10000 feet, and they are worried it may interfere with Air Traffic at Denver Intl. 

HOLY CRAP?
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2009, 01:57:06 PM »
Oxygen and THE COLD at that altitude could be a real problem, not just a 747 whizzing by.
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2009, 01:59:28 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on October 15, 2009, 01:57:06 PM
Oxygen and THE COLD at that altitude could be a real problem, not just a 747 whizzing by.

Well, there is that too.....
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2009, 02:04:57 PM »
It's on Fox now.....it's going at a rate of 25mph!!!

According to Shep Smith...they have no idea how they are going to get him down.

Shep Smith just said authorities are hoping that maybe the little boy accidentally untethered it and is hiding somewhere on the ground....but it's not looking hopeful. I guess praying would be a better word.

Dear God, please watch over that little boy....

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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2009, 02:07:09 PM »
this is just not good. 
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2009, 02:09:05 PM »
They have stopped all air traffic in the area.  I had to stop watching.  I am terrified that it will collapse or the boy will fall out.  Praying for his saftey.
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2009, 02:11:13 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on October 15, 2009, 02:09:05 PM
They have stopped all air traffic in the area.  I had to stop watching.  I am terrified that it will collapse or the boy will fall out.  Praying for his saftey.

I suppose a chopper doesn't fly that high?
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2009, 02:12:38 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on October 15, 2009, 02:11:13 PM
I suppose a chopper doesn't fly that high?

The 10K foot level is ASL, not AGL.  Right now they only have him 3500-4000 feet AGL.  Weather is in the mid-60's so even at that altitude, he's not in immediate danger of freezing or hypoxia.

Falling out or crashing, OTOH....
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2009, 02:12:51 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on October 15, 2009, 02:11:13 PM
I suppose a chopper doesn't fly that high?

Apparently there is a chopper flying along side of it....well about 2 miles away actually....they are afraid to get too close to it, because of the winds created by the helicopter....
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2009, 02:19:25 PM »
Get to da choppa.
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2009, 02:24:20 PM »
Man oh man. 
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2009, 02:28:23 PM »
This is really sad.

I wonder if the 0bama administration has suggested we ban balloons yet?
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #15 on: October 15, 2009, 02:30:39 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on October 15, 2009, 02:28:23 PM
This is really sad.

I wonder if the 0bama administration has suggested we ban balloons yet?

dunno, probably not.  Somehow, and this is just a hunch, I am betting that those balloon builders might be Dummies. 
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #16 on: October 15, 2009, 02:31:55 PM »
Quote from: Chris on October 15, 2009, 02:19:25 PM
Get to da choppa.

They can't get a helicopter near to it, because the rotation of the blades will suck the balloon into them...that's what some astronaut guy just said.....

the balloon builder is the boy's father....he is a "weather chaser" and this was meant to be a type of weather balloon....

the kid's mother is going to kill the father.....
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« Reply #17 on: October 15, 2009, 02:42:04 PM »
Apparently the balloon is empty.......Fox News Radio cut into programming.....hmmmm.......
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #18 on: October 15, 2009, 02:47:40 PM »
Just damn.
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #19 on: October 15, 2009, 02:48:24 PM »
I guess that means the kid fell out at some point....
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #20 on: October 15, 2009, 02:51:08 PM »
My friend in Denver is watching this, she said they have about 80 miles to cover, to look for him.
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #21 on: October 15, 2009, 02:52:04 PM »
Or he turned it loose and is afraid of the consequences and is simply hiding.

Fox Talk News is talking about how strange the family is .....

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« Reply #22 on: October 15, 2009, 02:55:01 PM »
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Or he turned it loose and is afraid of the consequences and is simply hiding.

Fox Talk News is talking about how strange the family is .....

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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #23 on: October 15, 2009, 03:00:44 PM »
Yup.  I am guessing dummies.
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Re: Boy Floats Away In Balloon
« Reply #24 on: October 15, 2009, 03:05:39 PM »
Flakes.

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The 6-year-old boy who was thought to be in a mylar balloon speeding high across Colorado Thursday was on the ABC series 'Wife Swap,' according to multiple reports.

Falcon Heene is the son of Richard and Mayumi Heene of Ft. Collins, Colo. His parents are storm chasers, and their chaotic parenting style was criticized by their swap family.

Richard and Mayumi Heene of Ft. Collins, Colo. have two other boys, Bradford and Royo.

The family was on the show because of their risk-taking ways. According to the ABC 'Wife Swap' website, the family  sleeps in their clothes so they can leap from bed and run after a storm at any given moment.

The site also describes the balloon that sounds like the one being tracked Thursday.

"When the Heene family aren't chasing storms, they devote their time to scientific experiments that include looking for extraterrestrials and building a research-gathering flying saucer to send into the eye of the storm," says the site.

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