Boy Floats Away In Balloon

so i totally missed this thanks to a lol comcast outage in my neighborhood but do we know what the other kids are named?

snowman?

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

"You said we did it for the show"?

The boy's family, who earlier this year appeared in a reality television show about wife-swapping, had been building a helium-balloon craft that was kept tethered in the backyard of their home.

this is one of my favorite sentences of the year. (from msnbc story.)

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol

one of the brothers is called bradford - sry btw aware thats not an hilarious name

OMG!!!!! i saw this episode of wife swap!! the dad is a maniac and basically an emotional abuser

"I played with my toys and took a nap," Falcon told a group of reporters outside his home Thursday afternoon.

<3 kids

x-post ^^^^^^^ YES!!! Thank you S for not letting me down here. They were the insane storm chasers, remember?? I knew my Wife Swap habit would be useful someday.

The boy's family, who earlier this year appeared in a reality television show about wife-swapping, had been building a helium-balloon craft that was kept tethered in the backyard of their home.

this is one of my favorite sentences of the year. (from msnbc story.)

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol

Change "this year" to "that year" and it could have been the first sentence of a J. G. Ballard story as presented by the sluglords.

xp yup! he may be the worst person i've seen on that show which is saying something.

o_O worse than the dude who made his family eat raw meat???????

oh easily

he made his wife do anything important and screamed and made a scene like a spoiled 10 year old with a hyperactivity disorder when he didn't get his way.

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/112089/thumbs/s-RICHARD-HEENE-large.jpg

haha look u guys they gave him a glowstick everythings cool no wolfs

dad looks vaguely blagojevichish

pussifiedblagojevichish

blagussified

another heart warming story via facebook

Grady !!!!!!!! Camera/DJ bag, 2 cameras and 8 rolls of film believed to have been lost/stolen on saturday nite just FOUND!!!!!! as if mr. Christian Self weren't already one of my favorite dudes ever!!
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Joe
was it hiding in the attic of the garage
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Grady
lol joe you're not far off-- it was up in a little crawlspace on top of the ladies room-- we had a film crew at the party and i think it got mixed up with stuff they were storing up there!!
13 minutes ago

Joe
was it eaten by wolfs
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he looks like hamm

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/media/2009/01/0128_blagojevich_menendez.jpg

i hope you all feel stupid for wasting your afternoons on these bumpkins

hay heard u were eaten by wolfs totally, rip bro sry

A friend on Facebook a few minutes back:

"(I) just realized a 6 year-old kid rick rolled the entire world."

10/15 never forget

I wish I hadn't missed this thread in real time. I has had me laughing since I started reading it.

"(I) just realized a 6 year-old kid rick rolled the entire world."

LOL... voted best.

"You said we did it for the show"?

LOLOL OMG DAD BUSTED!!

(from cnn)

On Reddit, a social networking site known for its hilarious discussion threads about news events, the topic elicited fun and fast dialog...

Mossyskeleton: "I wonder if his dad is going to ground him when he gets back."

Falcon must be scared of Wolf.

From Neil Hamburger's twitter:

Can you die from having a gigantic Mylar balloon, and your 6-year old son, shoved up your ass?

still top story on cnn. pathetic

what a disaster for news organizations

i left my apt for snacks this morning and was completely baffled to see a clip of the coverage on a tv in the store. everyone was just sort of staring at the tv w/confused looks like 'wait there's a kid in a balloon being chased by wolves???'

first ahmed chalabi and now this

still top story on cnn. pathetic

― am0n, Friday, 16 October 2009 05:59 (50 minutes ago) Bookmark

er...guys...
Boy Floats Away In Balloon

top story on CNN world news page: World watches odyssey of 'Balloon Boy' in real time

I hope the next top story is about the whole world reading the story about them watching the Balloon Boy in real time.

Also, isn't it kinda misleading to call it the "odyssey of Balloon Boy", when there was no boy in the balloon to have an odyssey?

That's why they used inverted commas?

wht the actual fuck

That's why they used inverted commas?

Yeah, but they should've used inverted commas on the word "odyssey" too. There was no odyssey, he was hiding in a fucking box!

There was no Circe confusing things, just his lying-ass brother. There was no Penelope waiting for him, just his weirdo conspiracy theory dad. There was no Cyclops facing him, just werefolf Kanye West.

Well, if that's not a revelation...

(actually, that's an xpost but it still works!)

Circe was CNN, Odysseus was the balloon, the policeman was Athena...erm....we were Penelope waiting for news...nah, it's not holding up.

You could probably get Aeolus in there somewhere though.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Aeolus1.jpg

And ILX are all very Antigone.

How does one person punch an entire thread?

I hope the next top story is about the whole world reading the story about them watching the Balloon Boy in real time.

― Tuomas, Friday, 16 October 2009 08:13 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Or maybe "whole world reading the story about the whole world queuing up to kick the arse of the father whose six year old kid let loose a helium balloon and the whole world followed it on TV and online thinking that the kid was in the balloon or it was full of wolves or the kid was a wolf or something but really the kid was hiding in the attic the whole time and now the whole world's really cheesed off because the whole world wasted several hours watching an empty oversized helium balloon"

tbf, some of the whole world had better things for doing. i was watching 'get smart' and anne hathaway was v cute, for instance.