At first I thought he had just crawled into a regular hot air ballon contraption, but he is inside the balloon itself!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_boy_in_balloon
And here's video of the balloon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHdu3xv9oXk
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
We've been watching live coverage in our office:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22887392#22887392
The boy's name is Falcon - how appropriate.
I'm watching it as it occurs on tv. wow. The rescue effort is so difficult. We can only pray for the kid.
I just turned this on!!!! This is so crazy!!!! I can't even imagine if my kid was floating away in a balloon!
Watching CNN they're saying the boy may not even be in the balloon anymore. Horrifying! Sending good thoughts his way.
What in the world? He's inside that thing? It's going so fast!!!! I hope he's ok!
the one thing on his side is how flat the terrain is.
They're saying within a half an hour though he could reach the suburbs, which could make the landing worse.
They are talking about how dangerous it is inside the balloon with the dangers of asphyxiation and hypothermia. The balloon appears to have lost a lot of helium, which means there may be a leak where the boy can get oxygen and the balloon may lower more quickly than they imagined.
It's coming down pretty rapidly now though. Let's hope!
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
I had just woken up from a nap when I saw this. I had to pinch myself about 20 times to make sure I wasn't dreaming this. So bizarre. Hope he ends up being ok! :-/
Now they said that the family was recently on Wife Swap....I know exactly who they are now. The storm chasers....I totally remember them.
This is just freaking bizarre. How did the kid even get inside the balloon. Where are/were his parents?
He's not in there...
So, where is he?!
Tazzy..don't even get me started on that! Where the heck is the kid though?
uh oh. 1. why didn't they cut the thing open right away? 2. doesn't look like he's in there.
Oh please god tell me he didn't fall out.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
Let's hope he started up the balloon, untied the ropes, then when he saw what was happening, ran away for fear of being in trouble.
Is this the storm chaser dad and kids from Wife Swap? I just typed it into google and came up with this clip.
http://www.mixx.com/videos/8616866/youtube_richard_on_the_soup_from_wife_swap
Edit: Well that's just great. E! just took the clip down.
Updated On: 10/15/09 at 03:44 PM
I figured no one was in there, since the balloon was just floating and not jerking around as if someone were in it.
Moony...that sounds like what probably happened. I can't see a 6 yr old getting in that thing and untieing it.
Moonie, they reported that his brother saw him go inside. Maybe he went back outside though.
Good point, Diva. Weird.
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