Boy Floats Away In Balloon

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I just discovered that the college classmate of mine I thought had died in a balloon accident several years in a ballooning accident actually faked his death to get his name off the alumni call/mailing list

hahahahaha wow why didn't I think of this...

Jesus, the Czar of Czars (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link

x-post

The dad, "a stormchaser, an amateur scientist (with some strange theories about civilization on Mars), and an avid self-promoter" who appeared with his family on the tv show "Wife-swap"

That gawker link w/ the video is impressive

curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link

wish i would have known about that before my reunion.

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link

I keep farting really loud

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link

Not to evade creditors or the IRS, nope. Just to get off a mailing list. Dude is hardcore.

& other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Couldn't he have just, you know, asked to be removed from the list?

Apparently he did several times and they still kept soliciting him for money, so finally one day he snapped. Here's his story:

http://www.crabwalk.com/misc/harvard.php

(warning: dude is a douchey conservative but also kind of hilarious; also this isn't his blog)

RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Maybe the balloon kid did the same to avoid getting Valentines from icky girls?

Tuomas, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link

(this is the same dude who spent one evening freshman year wandering around Harvard Square in his bathroom testing the range of his new cordless phone and also would buy crates of things like peanut butter and oranges out of catalogs because he'd never had a credit card before; he also tried to throw away all of his clothes once because he "ruined them in the wash", ie they were wrinkled)

RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link

Tuomas, what do you consider to be an "icky girl", brah?

"i find your antics mirthful and infectious" (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link

I want a portable bathroom to walk around in.

& other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link

he also tried to throw away all of his clothes once because he "ruined them in the wash", ie they were wrinkled)

omg

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link

this dude was a walking ball of cognitive dissonance, like he was my diametric opposite on pretty much any social issue you can think of yet he was easily one of my favorite ppl in my class because he was so massively entertaining

RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link

that's an amazing story. how did he fit Harvard Square into his bathroom!

dmr, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.dymaxionweb.com/kulturedrome/zardoz-head.jpg

Nate Carson, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link

He contained multitudes.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link

http://pfunn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/v_lizard1.jpg

^ icke girl ?

am0n, Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link

I mean, dude had a picture of himself yachting with WF Buckley on his dresser, yet his main technique for trying to pick up girls was buying 64-packs of crayons and getting them to color with him

lol oops where it says "bathroom" it should say "bathrobe"

RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link

No way did he throw away his clothes because they were wrinkled. WTF.

(Then again my mum once asked what she needed to do with the groceries once the supermarket woman had scanned'em. "Stuff them in the bag, mom.")

Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link

yet his main technique for trying to pick up girls was buying 64-packs of crayons and getting them to color with him!

l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link

Question is, did it work?

Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link

The clothing argument was hilarious because his roommates were all, "uh why don't you iron them" and he said "PSHAW I will just call home and have them send me money for more clothes." He got on the phone with his mom, who laughed at him for about 10 minutes and said "You'd better get your clothes out of the trash and iron them."

And yes, the coloring thing did work, it was incredible.

RETARTED (HI DERE), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link

That actually doesn't surprise me for some reason.

M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link

i didn't know you went to school with randall munroe

goole, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, depending on what else the guy had going on, I might have gone for that.

she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah that crayon trick might work on me too depending on the guy.

ceci n'est pas une pipecock (Trayce), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link

KUSA TV: CHILD FOUND ALIVE AT THE HOUSE LOL

iiiijjjj, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link

won't be alive for long

carne asada, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link

In an attic above the garage, apparently.

M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link

watching TV

oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link

best news story of the year, the world is ignored for a runaway weather balloon. good luck, usa.

omar little, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link

lol. i was watching fox when that thing was floating around & shep kept asking are you SURE they didn't search the whole house and he's not hiding so he doesn't get in trouble.

daily show tonight is going to be a treat, isn't it.

daria, actually (daria-g), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link

so glad all these jokes have been justified all along he's safe and sound and no wolf

modescalator (blueski), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link

Thank the lord he's ok. Now he must die.

tylerw, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link

the kid played it PERFECTLY imo. good way to not get in trouble: make your parents think you're dead and then have them find out you're alive.

omar little, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link

"At this point, we are thinking that he did not fall out of the balloon and is somewhere on the ground,"

good to know he hadn't jumped onto a cloud to collect some coins. this kid has done well.

ogmor, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link

so who should be the most hated boy in america, falcon or his older brother?

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link

It's not our fault! We didn't want the boy, he was an accident!

"i find your antics mirthful and infectious" (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link

glenn beck is mentally 8 years old no?

modescalator (blueski), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link

kid is dead.

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link

guys, kid is dead, msnbc is reporting it

omar little, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link

hahahaa

steamed hams (harbl), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link

is the boy ilx user am0n because that would explain a lot

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link

WTF is going on here.

ceci n'est pas une pipecock (Trayce), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link

rip am0n btw

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link

kids are dicks

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link

am0n was hiding in a box in the attic

steamed hams (harbl), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link

holy shit Larimer Co. sheriff's office actually confirming he did die now

iiiijjjj, Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link

wtf CNN saying he was found alive in a box in the attic

Jesus, the Czar of Czars (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah so is all the news im reading.

ceci n'est pas une pipecock (Trayce), Thursday, 15 October 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link


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