Holy shit turn on your TV and check out the news

[Krynn72]

This doesn't deserve 6 pages.

We'll keep that in mind next time you do something awesome like fly 10,000 feet into the air inside a balloon with no safety equipment.

And don't even say anything about how the kid wasnt in there in the end. Thats irrelevant.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

When was anything worth 6 pages in the HL2.net lounge

NASA operating money

 

[Vegeta897]

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1923183

 

[DEATHMASTER]

We'll keep that in mind next time you do something awesome like fly 10,000 feet into the air inside a balloon with no safety equipment.

And don't even say anything about how the kid wasnt in there in the end. Thats irrelevant.

If you see me riding something like that, I give you permission to shoot.

 

[Krynn72]

Not funny vegeta.

@deathmaster: What if you were kidnapped and tied up inside through no fault of your own? And naked?

 

[AKIRA]

If you really think about it, it's actually kind of funny that America was watching a regular weather balloon fly around for 2 hours lol

 

[Stigmata]

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1923183

Wasn't all that funny until

Spoiler

People are making fake videos of me scolding you on the internet! Do you have any idea how meta that is?!

 

[Vegeta897]

It's pretty meta.

 

[Shamrock]

This was the most anticlimactic news story ever. I was looking forward to something amazing, but it ends up the kid was a dick, released the balloon, and hid in the attic. **** you little 6-year-old bitch. I hate you.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Not funny vegeta.

@deathmaster: What if you were kidnapped and tied up inside through no fault of your own? And naked?

That's not possible.

 

[TwwIX]

The parents probably put the kids up to this. They got a taste of fame from "Wife Swap" and probably wanted more of it. Well, they got it.
A costly 15 minutes of fame, that is.

 

[VirusType2]

The ending to the story was a real dick limpener. I mean eye opener.


Eye opener.

 

[lame-o]

What a rip off, I am SO disappointed.

 

[AKIRA]

so...is that it? What about the thousands wasted on this "search/rescue"?

 

[lame-o]

false alarm... what can they do about it?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

charge them

 

[AKIRA]

lol this was pretty funny:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/10/15/sot.lkl.heene.did.it.for.show.cnn

edit: totally fake..way too many inconsistencies, the father is extremely nervous stuttering, not answering questions, trying to beat around the bush...lol they're going to get caught sooner or later.

 

[Shamrock]

Oh rofl.

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

We did this for the show! Hahaha. Stupid damn parents.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Srsly, fine these time wasting, money wasting ******s.

 

[VirusType2]

Srsly, **** these time wasting, money wasting ******s.

They'll definitely be fined. Too bad they can't fined the little boy.

 

[Shamrock]

They'll definitely be fined. Too bad they can't fined the little boy.

Unimpressed.

 

[Eejit]

Heh, reminded me of The Wasp Factory a bit


Also, BECAUSE OF FALCON.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

They'll definitely be fined. Too bad they can't fined the little boy.

But he was fined....found.

 

[VirusType2]

Too bad that he wasn't missing. I like the 'kid fell in the well and was rescued by a kitten/puppy' stories.

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

although rather anti climatic I guess it's good that the kid was found hiding in the attic and not mangled in some tree.

also lol at that vid....

kid: "we did it for the show"

dad: "uuuh..."

mom: "nooooooo...."

they probably did it to show of his balloon thingy to raise awareness so he can sell the invention off..."look how well it's flying etc. etc."

edit. also I'm sure that the interviewer knew exactly what was said...and he was just hoping for the kid to repeat...or didn't want to make accusations...

edit2. also anyone else find his mom's "you diiid?" line, when the kid admits that he heard them, to be really bad acted?

 

[Warped]

yeah this whole escapade sucks big time ^^^ listen to this:

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

 

[OmegaX]

This whole thing is screwed up. Here's another interview. The kid throws up live on NBC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgaPI2rr3_s

 

[Warped]

kid gots the Swine Flu! also worst parents this year!

 

[MJ12]

Probably a publicity stunt. Leeches.

 

[Krynn72]

Holy shit that guy looked pissed when his kid was puking.

 

[highlander]

^ agreed.

but yeah, publicity stunt.

 

[15357]

This is the best thread I've read for quite some time.


Pressing "next", trying to know what happened to the little kid, imagining if he's going to be found dead, etc.

 

[<RJMC>]

This is the best thread I've read for quite some time.


Pressing "next", trying to know what happened to the little kid, imagining if he's going to be found dead, etc.

I guess in korea he would have been shot down

"coronel, a got kid is inside a atmospheric balloon drifting in the sky,what do we do?"
"omg is a spy of the north who is going back to them! send the f16!"
"yes sir!"

 

[15357]

I guess in korea he would have been shot down

"coronel, a got kid is inside a atmospheric balloon drifting in the sky,what do we do?"
"omg is a spy of the north who is going back to them! send the f16!"
"yes sir!"

That's not so far from the truth, actually....

Most of the skies over our capital is an absolute no-fly zone.

Our AA cannon emplacements on the rooftops of our tallest buildings shoot down anything on the skies.

 

[<RJMC>]

Our AA cannon emplacements on the rooftops of our tallest buildings shoot down anything on the skies.

santa claus: ho ho ho! lets bring the gifts to the increasing korean christian kids population!

AA emplancement: fire!

santa claus: hoho?..what the fu-*RATATAM*

 

[Seppo]

Holy shit that guy looked pissed when his kid was puking.

He also looks drunk. And his hair looks like something I'd make fun of if I saw him in the street.

 

[MJ12]

The story that a little boy had floated away in a giant helium balloon was a hoax concocted to land a reality television show, authorities said Sunday, and the boy's parents will likely face felony charges.
The stunt two weeks in the planning was a marketing ploy by Richard and Mayumi Heene, who met in acting school in Hollywood and have appeared on the ABC reality show "Wife Swap," Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said. The Heenes have reportedly been working on a reality TV deal in Los Angeles.
Investigators are examining the possibility of other conspirators, "including the possibility that even some of the media outlets may have had some knowledge about this," Alderden said.

The sheriff said all three of the Heenes' sons knew of the hoax, but likely won't face charges because of their ages. The oldest son is 10. One of the boys told investigators he saw his brother get in the balloon's box before it launched.
Heene, 48, a storm chaser and inventor, has described himself as an amateur scientist, but Alderden said Heene has only a high school education.

On Friday, Falcon got sick during two separate TV interviews when asked again why he hid.

Alderden said officials tried Saturday to persuade Mayumi Heene, 45, to go to a safe house, but she declined.
"We talked to her at length about domestic violence, about her safety, about her children's safety," the sheriff said. "We have a concern, but we didn't have enough that would allow us or child protective services to physically take the kids from that environment."
Alderden said the children were still with the parents Sunday morning, and child protective services had been contacted to investigate the children's well-being.
"Clearly, from all indications, Mr. Heene has somewhat of a temper," Alderden said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_balloon_boy

 

[Stigmata]

Good.

 

[OmegaX]

This story just keeps getting better.

 

[Warped]

like I said before, these people should be nominated for Worst Parents of the 2009 award!