Morning Discussion
Congratulations to One Life Left off the radio for their overdue victory at the UK Games Media Awards last night, picking up a big hunk o' plastic for Best Broadcast or Podcast.
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We need a bureaucracy to monitor rogue balloons with children allegedly on board.
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"No individuals are allowed to build dirigibles without strict government oversight."
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Are balloon hobbyists allowed to launch balloons if they can't control where it will fly?
I mean, I doubt the FAA would allow it, but.. I dunno.
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Pretty much.
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Reminds me of "Bear Patrol" on the simpsons.
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cnn cut out the mother's fart in that clip which in unconscionable
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Lmfao
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his parents hid him in the attic and told his brother to lie about it?
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He puked on NBC this morning when his dad was being grilled about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGhIQP801fc-
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it's not just you. Every single moment of these people on tv makes me uncomfortable. I can't explain it.
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I get the same feeling. It's so fucking obvious they're lying, and they've been caught in that lie on national television - maybe I'm just empathizing too much.
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What the fuck is going on with this shitass family?
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Ahhh the anchor keeping a straight face cracks me up
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I think it's because he doesn't want to let them out of the interview that easy
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I love the look of the dad's face as the kid is throwing up.
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I wonder if they drugged the kid to keep him from saying something stupid again. See how sleepy he was?
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I thought of the same thing! Malingering!
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i love that right after he says 'what do i have to gain from this' he goes into how he's an inventor and storm chaser. Yeah..what a douchebag.
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i swear it looks like falcon is drugged in the long version of the puke video..
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Ahahaha - setting aside the puking kid, NOBODY BELIEVES YOU CRAZY BALLOON GUY! I really do hope he's charged for all the trouble he caused.
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At first i thought this was a publicity stunt for the Where the Wild things are
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There was a damn Mythbusters on this very exact scenario, you'd need a small house sized helium balloon to get a kid a few feet off the ground, much less to 14k feet.
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belated viral marketing for UP!
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fart lessons
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They should just beat the parents and get it over with.
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anyone who names their kid "falcon" clearly desires attention.
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legally change it to skeletor.
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^reply of the day
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Ahahahahaha!
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FUCK SOMEONE IN THE ASS!!!!
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write computer programs in Pascal
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here's YouTube of the father claiming Hillary Clinton is a Reptillian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu7Wwz5B9CE-
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To be fair, he's incredulous and asking for proof. He's playing to his audience.
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haha. i just hope whoever has the contract for a documentary or whatever crap they were doing this for fesses up instead of quietly shelving it.
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If there's conclusive evidence that shows it was to get press, they should bill them for the time & effort it took to search for the kid.
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I prefer put Falcon in a balloon for real, and don't track it or see where it lands.
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The kid is innocent. Blame his loony dad and farting mother.
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This looks bad and I'm not saying its not fake. But let me play contradictory for a moment theres a few issues I find with the idea it was staged.
The boy said "for the show". For what show? For a show his parents told him they would get or had. The kid has been on a tv show before he might be confused?
If it was planed why not make a better more believable balloon. I'm guessing from all the crazy shit this guy does he could make a balloon that would more plausibly hold a kid.
I would assume the police questioned the brother who said he saw him climb into the balloon alot and the kid didn't crack and little kids aren't the greatest at keeping secrets?-
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I take "for the show" as promoting their episode of wife swap (it was somewhat recent I think).
The balloon was believable enough for all this to happen, and enough for Hot Air Balloon Expert Guy to say it could be possible to the Sheriff and TV people.-
Hot Air Balloon Expert Guy... jeez...how could you believe him? That guy was fucking Boring!
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Oh I don't believe him. As other shackers said, it should take much more gas to lift a kid (lol). I'm just saying he went on national TV and convinced so many people.
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hehe..sorry...I was trying to be funny...cuz...his last name is Boring. hehe...
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lol, I was wondering why you capitalized that.
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I don't think it's a hoax. Kid's are fucking retarded. I mean have you ever asked a kid a what he was doing and get some kind of dumbass answer like "I WAS A BUMBLEBEE FIGHTING A LIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOON". Kid's are fucking idiots and this little puking goober would fold like an omelet by real questioning. Falcon was just amazed that he was talking to Wolf. The stars aligned on "My Parent's Were Fuckwits When They Named Me" day yesterday.
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I agree for the most part.
What I find strange is the brother saying he saw him get in the basket when the line was untethered. That's more a blatant lie than anything. Kids are stupid.-
I have brothers, he was trying to get the little brother in trouble.
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Watch the video and then the followup. The dad is so scared that his kid is going to say more shit to out him that he dances around the question, "misunderstands" the question two or three times, then gets "appalled" at the implication that the whole thing was a hoax.
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I honestly thought on the puke video he was just concerned about the kid. Maybe I'm just naive.
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Watch the rest of the puke video. It is 15 minutes long. The guy is acting so weird. It really looks like he is trying to cry for the camera and can't pull it off.
And again, he let the balloon into the sky. It was a project he had built with the boys, they were launching it for the first test, and he released it. Why didn't he make sure his third child was present to let the balloon he built into the sky?
I have a six year old, I understand how to talk to them, and how to treat them, and nothing about how this guy is acting seems at all natural to me. None of the details add up.
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But sometimes those dumbass answers are hilarious http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19327188#itemanchor_19327188
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On the local news this morning they said that when the balloon got free, the first thing the dad did was call a local news station and ask them to send a helicopter up to follow it. Not the police, but the local news.
Also, they just happened to be filming it right when it got free, and despite it floating up rather slowly, it does not appear that the dad tries to go after it at all. -
I don't know if it's a hoax, but the father is clearly an idiot:
http://gizmodo.com/5383316/takeoff-video-shows-ufo-balloon-incident-almost-certainly-a-hoax-
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IAWTP Especially when they were talking about some box hanging from it at the beginning.
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Wait a minute. The father was there, he released the balloon. He built the balloon. He knew there was no way the kid could be on/in the balloon because when he released it the "box" that they were all talking about later in the day wasn't attached.
This family is so full of shit they all need to go to prison. I am now including the three children in my sentence. They have to go to children's prison.-
They get to work the salt mines.
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I'm still not convinced that what the parents was actually criminal in it's intent.. only way to know for sure is to known with certainly what the parents told Falcon to do before allowing the balloon to float up.
Having said that, I think they were asking for trouble by building this balloon without being certain it won't float up.
Was there an intent to fool people into thinking a child was in danger with this? Or just confusion on their part?
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Here's a video of the father launching the balloon and getting really mad that the tether wasn't on it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/33342538#33342538-
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Oh god. What an idiot. How is he going to explain this?
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Wait, THAT was the balloon? How on earth could anyone think anyone was inside of that, especially after seeing that video.
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We really just need a public flogging of this guy.
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From the other things I've heard the father say, I imagine this special balloon is somehow related to his knowledge of alien life on mars, Hilliary Clinton being a shapeshifting reptilian, and ufos. It is obvious from his anger that getting it back was a top priority, so a little white lie about a small boy being trapped inside is totally understandable.
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Huh? They do it all in-house, on computers
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bullshit, it's actually live.
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Yeah, and they've said in interviews that that is exactly what enables them to be able to have an episode parody an event that happened just days before. They can turn an idea in to an episode WAY faster than anyone using outsourcing can.
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Easily. They can do an episode in as little as 48 hours, usually it takes about a week.
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People are stupid.
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They wouldn't unless they had an out of control news media screaming about it all day and buying the bullshit story of the father and the rest of the family.
I'd bet everything I own that this is all a hoax. Why he fuck else would the parents be on all these talk shows so soon after such a traumatic event if not to garner fame and appearance fees. Any normal parent would be hiding their child from the media after something like this but these two assholes are more than happy to drag their obviously messed up child in front of the news media. I'm sure he's puking because of the mental conflict caused by all his lying.
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Lying to the police and search and rescue is, right?
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My guess is that Butters is going to get caught in a hot air balloon. Cartman will see the media attention that he got and trap himself down a well. Then Stan's dad will take it even further and stage a dinosaur attack.
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