6-year old boy goes for ride in UFO... - Page 3

 

]It *HAD* to be.

]#1: That home-made "flying saucer" balloon was nowhere *near* large
]enough to have lifted a 7-year-old boy, ....
]#2: If you've ever watched any sort of balloon take off carrying a
]payload, you'll remember that the weight of the load hung down and
]stabilized the balloon's flight. ....

Yup.  A ballonist they interviewed on TV said the same things even before it
landed.  Even predicted they'd find the kid hiding at home.

 


Never saw that part, but it makes you wonder why nobody in either the
media or law enforcement paid any attention to him.

BTW: Who are you, and what have you done with Vito?

 

Twibil wrote:

I think the answer to both of those are pretty obvious - the media's
not going to listen to that because having the kid in the balloon and
tracking it with a camera in your news helicopter is a way better
story than simply finding the kid safe and sound at home.  As for
law enforcement - put yourself in their place.  Would you, as the local
sherriff, take on the liability for calling off the "rescue" operation just
on
some balloonist's say-so?  We're WAY too litigious a society to expect
that to happen, no matter how much money was wasted "playing it
safe."

Bob M.

 


Maybe that's why I never made it as a TV producer: *MY* first thought
would have been "Boy! We're *really* gonna look like idiots if this
whole thing is the scam it looks like!"


Of course not. (But OTOH neither would I as the local Sheriff have
been making press-conference statements about how it *wasn't* a hoax.)

And I would have dragged everybody -kids, parents, et all- down to the
station for some *really* serious questioning just as soon as I could
have laid hands on 'em.

This entire thing smelled wrong right from the first moment it broke.

 

Twibil wrote:

Oh, that's happening now.  It's just not getting anywhere near
the national/international press attention that the "boy in the balloon"
story got.  Like I said - a six-year-old flying 60 miles in a homemade
helium balloon is a lead story for CNN; finding out that it was all
a hoax put over on all of these "serious journalist" types, and that
the kid was safe in his attic all the time...well, not so much.

Bob M.