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This is ongoing, I hope they get him down okay.


http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=125161&catid=339

Turned out to be an hoax didn't it?

All of America sat in front of their TV sets, hoping the little boy would be okay.  But there was no little boy. 

That balloon was cruising too. 

Caught it on the news last night that he was hiding out in the barn the whole time.

During the Wolf Blitzer interview the boy said something about how his father told him to do that because it was "part of the show".  I have a feeling we have a bigger douchebag than Kayne West on our hands here.  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF7vfyVoNkE
Then the kids throws up on live air!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsPJkqN-nBs

They even looked through small drawers for him?  Falcon!  Falcon!   :buggedout:

Rant coming....

This story makes me sick. I watched yesterday, in tears, waiting for that stupid freaking thing to come down. I have a 7 yr old so I couldn't help but think of him in this situation and.. well, it wasn't good.

If it turns out these whack jobs were looking to get another 15 minutes of fame they should be billed for the time and resources wasted by local and state police, rescue personal, Fuel for helicopters.. every.damn.thing.. then they should be fined big time for the emotional toll it took on the personnel who wasted their time looking for him.

Then, yes, there is more, they should be charged with filing a false police report, child neglect or endangerment, and never paid to do another damn interview on television again. I'm thoroughly disgusted by these people.

Its looking more and more like a hoax on the part of these "parents"  When asked why he didnt come out the little boy responded.. you said it was to do it for a show.

Media whores is all they are. Shame on them.   :hatred:   :hatred:

Yup.

It seems people will exploit anything nowadays to get a reality show. 

So the story turned out to be just a lot of hot air?

*groan*


 :wink:

They tried to float one by us, but we were too quick for them . . .

Quit trying to rise to the occasion.

Now I feel all deflated . . . :bluesad:

Never cry wolf...er...uhmm..balloon?!

3mnkids seemed to have nailed this one in terms of how me and my girlfriend felt about this.

Side note, who names their kid Falcon...honestly. 

Well... the parents of this guy:

(http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh226/SSBB_fan1/CaptainFalcon.jpg)

Anyways, 3mnkids sumed up my feelings towards this.  I remember during school that my computer teacher brought this up and all of us were very worried.  Finding out this was all just a hoax just really ticks me off.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_re_us/us_boy_in_balloon

Lets hope the charges are severe.

...Turns out He actually fell down into A well.

Speaking of balloons and kids.
Anyone see the episode of Mythbusters where they try to float A kid using party balloons.

Because I doubt if that balloon was big enough to lift that kid in the first place.

And besides the Dad had to know the whole time it was being chased through the
air that His son was not on the damn thing as there was no gondola..
Why didn't He let them in on that little piece of info?

Answer: To keep this thing dragging on as long as possible.

I would say a douchebag. And the evidence seems to support that.

Does this remind anyone of that subplot to 12 Monkeys?  The thing where they thought the kid fell down a well, when he was really hiding in his barn.  I know this was all a crock, but it still reminds me of that, maybe that's where the dad got his idea.

Bart Simpson also did the well trick on The Simpsons under the name Timmy O'Toole. :teddyr:

The TV news we watched last night said the cost of the 'rescue' effort was one million USD.
Is it reasonable to assume that they would be 'on the hook' for a major portion of that - if not all?
Seems fitting to me.

Hey, these people were on a reality show called Wife Swap earlier this year , maybe they got addicted to the attenion.

The same ones who take them along when they go out chasing Tornadoes.

EDIT:  Whoops, that clip was already posted on this thread!  I thought it was different clip... DOH! 

Anyway, after watching the clip, I have to say, man, the father seems like a real assmonkey, all the yelling and crap, not to mention the kids flipping the bird at the camera.  Great role models there guys.

I read in a paper today he did have a reality show idea lined up with some producer.  This guy is an ass wipe.  But, he's no better than Kate Gosslyn in my book. 

I love the idea of being famous for...well...nothing.

I wasn't going to post in here again because these people just burn my ass. but..

The husband and wife are both terrible parents IMO and maybe even abusive. Making these kids lie on tv, dragging them from one interview to another when the child was obviously ill.. They have put their own selfish needs ahead of their children. People like this will do it every time. Think you have heard the last of these sickos? Not a chance.

The media(news, cable channels like MTV, Bravo, TLC) who pay people to behave badly on television and the people who watch are all contributing to these kinds of people. Examples..

Octomom~ yes, keep having kids that you cant take care of and maybe you can make some money whoring yourself on Dr. Phil
The duggars~ yep, keep popping them out lady, gotta get that football team huh? who cares that the older ones dont have a life but take care of the younger ones. Hey mom! you had them, you take care of them. selfish b***h. yeah, I said it.
Jon and kate~ have a martial meltdown in front of the entire world, have affairs, steal from each other, all in front of the children... Who cares right. They are making money right? who says children should have a stable home environment. Cameras in their face is just fine for healthy development im sure.
Bridzilla~ women paid to behave like tiny tyrants on their period. They more outrageous and ugly their behavior the better. woohoo!!.
wife swap~ more bad behavior. Do any of the people on these shows behave like rational human beings? no, why? because that's not what people want to see.

For the record, I have never watched the shows I have mentioned above because I dont need too, the commercials and the tabloid covers tell me all I need to know.
 
Its a sad commentary on this society that so many get so much enjoyment from watching human train wrecks. And as long as they do people like this man and his wife will continue to put their families at risk for a lifetime of therapy for their 15 minutes of fame.

3mnkids:  :thumbup: You go girl!

This whole thing reminds me of the "he was hiding in a barn" thing from 12 Monkeys. Maybe its an omen? Maybe the apocalypse is on the way. Maybe we're all gonna DIE!!!


That, or two d-bags decided to do something d-baggy. Either one.

Or possibly both.

What's even worse is I don't know if the kid was ill because was sick (as in, had a cold or something) or if he was just so nervous from all the lies he had to tell (and I wouldn't put it past the dad to threaten the poor guy) and he just couldn't keep anything down in his stomach.

What chaps my butt is one lame show my wife watches called "The Insider" is trying to put it all on the father and make the mother sound like a martyr. Each day they have some lame story about how evil the father is and what a victim the mother is. Sorry but I am not buying that load of horses**t. She is just as guilty and just as wrong as the father. Sure he's a douchebag but she is one as well. And it's apparent that the kids are allowed to do what they want. I saw a clip where the kid, Falcon asked, "Who the hell is Wolfe?" when the family was on CNN being interviewed by Wolfe Blitzer.

Word to what 3mnkids said.  My big question is why the hell do people take any kind of interest in shows like John an Kate Plus Eight?  Its a show...about a family...doing...well...nothing much.  Even if Balloon Boy's family got a show and did things like storm chasing and balloon launching I really wouldn't give two sh!ts.  Nothing a "real life" family can do will entertain me and quite frankly you have to have low entertainment standards to enjoy shows like this.  I have my own family to watch thank you.

Well I have to admit Wife Swap is a guilty pleasure of mine although I greatly prefer the Brit version of the show.

Wife Swap is interesting because its a social experiment.  All shows like John And Kate Plus Eight are is voyeurism into another person's boring every day life. 

Why ?

 :question:

I'm a Brit and I prefer the American version.

I can understand if they're storm chasing and balloon launching. At least they'd be doing something interesting. That's why I liked American Chopper - The Teutuls are a funny, eccentric bunch, and they seem like nice people, but the show was about building motorcycles. The Teutuls' antics were icing on the cake. But it succumbed to the same reality show syndrome as the others.

Gradually, they started deliberately showing off for the cameras, which was still good, and still secondary. Then the producers got the idea of sticking these guys in various situations and filming what they do, which was still OK. Then the bike builds got less elaborate and the family stuff started taking over. And as OCC expanded, we got more of the "business" end of the operation (Paul Sr. yelling on the phone, yay). We got muli-part episodes that were essentially the Teutuls on vacation. And the builds went from an hour of design and fabrication plus an hour of paint, assembly and unveiling to a single hour that barely gets into anything once you factor in the family soap opera and the other fluff.

And if that's not bad enough, the people who held the show together all started leaving. Last time I checked it out, it was as much a voyeuristic family peep show as any of the others. I think it must be some law of reality shows that they all eventually decay into overdramatised heaps of everyday crap.

What the hell happened to TLC? It used to have good stuff. Connections with James Burke, The Secret Life of Machines, Furniture on the Mend, a bunch of DIY and science shows. Now it's people having babies in the daytime, and dysfunctional families in primetime. Sure, Discovery still has the science/technology/documentary shows, but it's slipping as well. Quite a few of those sensationalised tabloid "documentaries" showing up on there, and their reality shows could just as easily turn. American Chopper started there, after all.

Thankfully, I've managed to avoid all the wife-swapping, bratty kid, family freakshow programs. Honestly, I can't watch them. I see a few seconds of Supernanny with kids freaking out, and I can feel myself tense up. These shows are stressful to me. I don't need that when I'm trying to unwind.

The only real reality shows I watch any more are The Amazing Race (Still is fun to learn about different cultures and see different places I would never normally see) and most police video shows.

Personally, I have no interest in watching or hearing about other families in reality shows.  I have my own reality to live, so why should I watch other people?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxtFXtiUbbw
Ready say it with me...one, two, three...
@SSHOLE!!

You know, I hadn't considered until now just what a monumentally scummy thing this guy did. I mean, this was not a case of telling the kid to lie so they could get away with something in the short term and move on. That's bad enough. But if they were planning to launch a reality show, with this as a way to grab the spotlight, it's a long-term commitment. You have to think the father would be hoping they could all get rich and famous off this plan. So, "Balloon Boy" would go through life with a gigantic fraud at the heart of his future success. That's a hell of a thing to put on a kid. Even worse than naming him Falcon.

I prefer the British one because the people seem more real to me. There seems to be more working class folks who get switched with rich wives, who suddenly have to get their precious hands dirty. I don't know, I seem to get some perverse pleasure out of that. :teddyr: Some of the stuff on there though is just plain gross...like times when people are forced to kill animals to feed exotic pets or people are digging through dumpsters or living like hippies and conserving urine for fertilizer  :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:

HE"S Appalled? I just want to smack the crap out of him. He is appalled, he is a sick SOB is what he is. He thought his son had fallen out? uh huh.. People like this make me sooo angry. especially today. He was worried about his son? You know, in the news now is a story about a little 7 yr old in FL that went missing while walking home from school with her twin and some friends( home is a mile from school).. They found her, dead, thrown in landfill like a piece of garbage. The mother was on tv (before they found her)saying..  "I cant remember if I told her I loved her".. This is a women who did nothing wrong and has lost her child. I cant imagine what she is going through right now but it makes me sick thinking about it. And this waste of skin is going on and on about how afraid he was for his kid. disgusting!

Because of this mans actions who knows what will happen when a child really is in a dangerous situation? will they take it seriously? He has done more than just damage his children.

I'd think you could learn more about different cultures by watching a documentary than by watching a show whose underlying hook is "Who are they gonna get rid of this week?".  Not doubting your intentions, but the show is just a variation on "Survivor" and that show was, is and always will be rubbish.  "Biggest Loser" is the same thing. I don't buy it when people say they watch it for inspiration. How is it inspiration to see people's desire for money and fame crushed, and when they go back to the unhealthy eating habits that landed them on the show, they say they just couldn't face life after losing in the public eye? It's all some ghoulish fascination with seeing others fail, which, I guess, is supposed to make us feel better about ourselves, but how can you feel better about yourself with your butt plopped in front of one of these shows instead of connecting with human beings or, better yet, actively studying a foreign culture, in the case of "The Amazing Race".

But that's just my opinion.