Colorado boy floats away in Balloon

On October 16 2009 04:09 Amber[LighT] wrote:
just read this somewhere else lol.

On October 16 2009 04:17 LordWeird wrote:
Ok, so somehow he got in the balloon and it just floated away? I bet the 'sibling' had something to do with it.

On October 16 2009 04:25 hixhix wrote:
Any live stream report about this? I cant find any. Thanks.

On October 16 2009 04:23 AzureEye wrote:


The boy undid the ropes himself after he got in. No sibling involved.

I sound cruel but he sure learned his lesson

On October 16 2009 04:05 T.O.P. wrote:
Wasn't there a thread earlier that said you need like 100,000 balloons to lift a person into the sky?

On October 16 2009 04:38 Chuiu wrote:
Flight of the Navigator. I hope he lands ok, I saw this on the news about half an hour ago.

EDIT: Oh it landed, that's good to hear.

On October 16 2009 04:41 Shivaz wrote:
His sibling said they saw he go in.

On October 16 2009 04:42 zizou21 wrote:
They said it is likely he fell out because the door to the balloon was unlocked/ Sad day

On October 16 2009 04:45 ShaperofDreams wrote:
wth, that's gonna be an interesting tale to tell, after he gets rescued (hopefully).

On October 16 2009 04:50 hixhix wrote:
Why are they all talking about how the boy would have fallen somewhere? Did they search his house and confirm that it wasnt the joke ?

On October 16 2009 04:50 hixhix wrote:
Why are they all talking about how the boy would have fallen somewhere? Did they search his house and confirm that it wasnt the joke ?

On October 16 2009 04:49 sixghost wrote:

What do you mean? He either was never in the thing, or he fell out of it and is very very dead.

On October 16 2009 04:52 ghermination wrote:


http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffallers.html

There are many cases of people surviving 20,000+ foot falls, i'm assuming 8000 feet would be possible but not probable.

On October 16 2009 04:52 ghermination wrote:


http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffallers.html

There are many cases of people surviving 20,000+ foot falls, i'm assuming 8000 feet would be possible but not probable.

On October 16 2009 04:53 LordWeird wrote:


Yeah but Falcon is SIX YEARS OLD.

On October 16 2009 04:54 538 wrote:

I think a 6-year-old boy's body is necessarily more susceptible to any kind of damage caused by an impact then that of an adults.
But here's to hoping.

Actually lets hope he's just hiding...

On October 16 2009 04:58 Smokin_Squirrel wrote:I hope the sibling wasn't pranking. That would be such a disappointing twist.

On October 16 2009 04:58 Smokin_Squirrel wrote:
This story is getting so interesting

I hope the sibling wasn't pranking. That would be such a disappointing twist.

On October 16 2009 04:58 Smokin_Squirrel wrote:
This story is getting so interesting

I hope the sibling wasn't pranking. That would be such a disappointing twist.

On October 16 2009 04:59 dangots0ul wrote:


maybe so. but you gotta pull for it man. i really really hope they were pranking or he survived. but the helium thing they are talking about it... good point. kid may have dead and then fallen out.. door wasn't locked and that shit is spinning and going 30 mph

On October 16 2009 04:59 ghermination wrote:


Definitely. It would be much better if he was smashed into several thousand small pieces after falling through the air - oh and also he'd been asphyxiated by the helium in the balloon before he ever fell out. Don't you just love happy endings?

On October 16 2009 04:56 ghermination wrote:


I'm thinking more mathematically about it. Obviously it's not like he would walk out of that fall but the terminal velocity of a 45 pound 6 year old is quite a bit less than that of a 200 pound man. With drag caused by his clothes he would probably only fall at around (doing math...)
3.45 - 3.7525 feet per second, which is about 2.5 miles per hour. He would probably move faster through the rarified air at that altitude but would slow down to around that speed when he got closer to the ground.

On October 16 2009 05:01 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:


Then why was the door still shut. Also I would think air would flood into the balloon and it would have landed earlier.

On October 16 2009 05:05 mOnion wrote:


uh, wtf? gravity accelerates you at 10 m/s. which is 3x faster than you're suggesting.

On October 16 2009 05:08 randombum wrote:


Gravity is not the only force acting on him though. While I'm not too sure on his numbers, the fact that gravity has free fall acceleration of -9.8 m/s doesn't mean that he HAS to fall at a speed faster than the acceleration of gravity.

On October 16 2009 05:08 randombum wrote:


Gravity is not the only force acting on him though. While I'm not too sure on his numbers, the fact that gravity has free fall acceleration of -9.8 m/s doesn't mean that he HAS to fall at a speed faster than the acceleration of gravity.

On October 16 2009 05:11 mOnion wrote:


the clothes of a 6 yr old are not going to create enough resistance to reduce his plummet speed by a factor of 3

On October 16 2009 04:40 ghermination wrote:
They're worried about whether or not he's sealed in a chamber with pure helium. If that was the case he'd have been dead after a couple of minutes. Here's my question: How the hell did he get in there? I want a diagram.

Edit: He's not in it.

On October 16 2009 05:16 deconduo wrote:


Velocity (speed) does not equal acceleration. Gravity could be 100m/s2 and the terminal velocity could be the same.

On October 16 2009 05:21 Triple7 wrote:
According to the CNN Live Report, authorities think he wasn't in the balloon at all, and are searching the neighborhood.

On October 16 2009 05:23 lazz wrote:
im skeptical that a balloon of that size would even be able to carry a six year old. surely it's not big enough.

On October 16 2009 05:24 mOnion wrote:


it is big enough, and don't call me Shirley.

ZING

On October 16 2009 05:05 mOnion wrote:


uh, wtf? gravity accelerates you at 10 m/s. which is 3x faster than you're suggesting.

On October 16 2009 05:27 jiabung wrote:
No one would survive a fall of 8000 feet... that's like saying people jumping off the Empire State Building all should live.

On October 16 2009 05:31 Tsagacity wrote:
People have survived falls from higher than that before. Doesn't mean that everyone will survive though (on the contrary, it's a freak accident).

On October 16 2009 05:40 Xstatic wrote:
I love how this turned from a discussion about the kid's safety and stupidity to mathematical proofs of his ability to survive.

No matter how much you calculate, it all depends on the time and condition in which they find him. If he fell and it takes too long to get medical attention, it's GG. If he was never up there, then he's all right, except from whipping from parents :D

On October 16 2009 05:51 CaucasianAsian wrote:
Does anyone else see a resemblence between this and the movie 12 monkeys? With the 'kid who fell down the well' was just a prank and he was hiding in the barn?

On October 16 2009 06:05 ProoM wrote:
the balloon looks like Alien ship.

On October 16 2009 04:09 Amber[LighT] wrote:
just read this somewhere else lol.

On October 16 2009 06:20 Thratur wrote:
Maybe he thought it was a shuttle and he wanted to zealot bomb some random siege tanks

On October 16 2009 06:20 Thratur wrote:
Maybe he thought it was a shuttle and he wanted to zealot bomb some random siege tanks

On October 16 2009 06:36 DeathByMonkeys wrote:


Least funny real life starcraft related joke in existence.

On October 16 2009 06:36 DeathByMonkeys wrote:


Least funny real life starcraft related joke in existence.

On October 16 2009 06:47 El.Divino wrote:
I want to be that kid.

On October 16 2009 06:48 never_toss wrote:

now why would you want that?

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Falcon, along with his two older brothers Ryo and Bradford, have accompanied their father chasing storms out West, the Post reported in a 2007 profile that depicts the entire Heene family as adventurers. Richard Heene described an incident when the family was caught in a tornado that July. "I think I have odd kids. They start screaming with excitement," Heene told the paper.

Bob Licko, 65, a neighbor, said he was leaving home when he heard commotion in the backyard.

He said he saw two boys on the roof with a camera, commenting about their brother.

"One of the boys yelled to me that his brother was way up in the air," Licko said.

On October 16 2009 07:09 QibingZero wrote:
CNN claiming the kid has been found alive at home.

On October 16 2009 07:27 Jonoman92 wrote:
"NEW: Falcon Heene found in box in attic of family's home"

wtf lol, are the parents just publicity whores or what? I wouldn't be surprised if they cooked this whole thing up themselves.

On October 16 2009 07:54 Frits wrote:
looks like falcon is gonna get punched

On October 16 2009 07:54 Frits wrote:
looks like falcon is gonna get punched

On October 16 2009 07:54 Frits wrote:
looks like falcon is gonna get punched

On October 16 2009 07:54 Frits wrote:
looks like falcon is gonna get punched

On October 16 2009 05:51 CaucasianAsian wrote:
Does anyone else see a resemblence between this and the movie 12 monkeys? With the 'kid who fell down the well' was just a prank and he was hiding in the barn?

On October 16 2009 07:54 Frits wrote:
looks like falcon is gonna get punched

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On October 16 2009 11:10 koOl wrote:
yall should stop blaming the boy. his parents are FAMEWHORES. theyve been on wife swap twice...and now they pulled this stunt. the boy was being interviewed and said that his parents told him not to come out because "they did it for the show"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI6UONWCq7A&feature=player_embedded

On October 16 2009 12:00 Masamune wrote:
I haven't read the thread, but I'm pretty sure I saw this family on TLC or something, before. Basically the dad is a retard and lets the kids do whatever they want. The dad works as a storm chase iirc, and the mother just picks up after him and the kids, popping out babies it seems. I think the premise of the show was swapping wives, and these crazy people with no regard for safety were paired up with another family who was on the other end of the spectrum, in that they were afraid to let their kids bounce balls in the house, for example.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was all set up by the parents for some publicity.

On October 16 2009 07:54 Frits wrote:
looks like falcon is gonna get punched

On October 16 2009 13:49 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
I wonder if South Park is going to take aim at this family.

On October 16 2009 11:58 Draconizard wrote:
So, prison time, yes? I would like to see a stiff fine at the very minimum.

On October 16 2009 12:37 JWD wrote:
Looks like a pathetic PR stunt…what an awful thing to subject your child to

disgusting

On October 16 2009 15:16 Suc wrote:
He kissed his kid on camera and apologised for yelling at him for ALL THIS. Way to have a backbone, if you can't yell at your kid over something like this, when will you discipline him?

On October 17 2009 11:00 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
so now the kid fakes throwing up on a live interview?

Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden just called the runaway balloon incident a "hoax" and a "publicity stunt."

Alderden says they plan on filing charges soon -- one of which would be contributing to the delinquency of a minor, which is a felony.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/#ixzz0UJDGWQPr

On October 17 2009 05:58 conCentrate9 wrote:
watching the video where falcon says: "you guys told me it was all for show" is so embarrassing. T_T.

On October 19 2009 03:56 ShoCkeyy wrote:
LOL, I just read this as well. I knew it was a hoax all along. No one can survive a helium filled balloon at 7,000 feet; especially a boy for that long of a period of time.

On October 16 2009 04:35 Synthesis wrote:


Well, that was assuming each balloon was one of those tiny helium-filled ones.

On October 17 2009 02:56 Sadistx wrote:
One of the stupidest thing to graze the american mass media in a looooong time, and that's saying something ;p, considering what garbage they are usually covering. I asked my friends in other countries and thank god no foreign news wasted time covering this.

And when you consider it actually being fake and that the douche dad just wasted thousands of people's time, that just adds another layer of hilarity.

On October 19 2009 10:23 NeverGG wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if social services takes their kids away for this. What a strange, strange set of people. Those interviews were just down right bizarre.

On October 19 2009 15:40 1tym wrote:
I suspect strong negative sentiments and opinions to follow about this family throughout the world, however it won't stop them bringing in $$$. The best thing we can do is to stop caring and not pay any attention.

Remember Tonya Harding?

She said,

"I may have not gotten any gold in Norway, but I'll be getting it where it counts - in my bank account!"

On October 19 2009 15:46 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:


Isn't Tonya Harding now having to do dumbest criminal specials now for $$$ with other washed up actors, and personalities?

Mayumi Heene told sheriff's deputies that she and her husband Richard "knew all along that Falcon was hiding in the residence" in Fort Collins, according to an affidavit used to get a search warrant for the home.

She allegedly told investigators the incident was a hoax meant to make them more marketable to the media.

On October 20 2009 07:13 blue_arrow wrote:
wow the media are just swarming the family's house and neighbourhood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvq-8ji9hU0&feature=youtube_gdata

the yellow shirt guy should be charged, which media corporation is from anyway?

and the rest of the people are being really big dicks as well, just listen to the snide comments made by the off-camera reporters

seriously, the media should stop spending any more time on this and stop bothering all those innocent people

On October 24 2009 14:03 Snet wrote:


Lol what the hell? I love how the guy in the yellow shirt jumps on his back and everyone is fine with that, but the second the guy fights back, "WOAH WOAHHHH WOAHHHHHH WOAHH HEY HEY!!!!"

On October 24 2009 14:24 Pioneer wrote:

Kinda like the people that will get all in celebrities faces and become aggressive but when one of celebrities knocks the camera away they freak out and threaten lawsuits lol.

guy should've grabbed the yellow shirted guys balls and squeezed as hard as possible, woulda made that douche let go LOL