Enjoying the show?
I know a couple of six year olds. But it’s been awhile since I interacted much with them. As far as the impulse to hide/conceal, I definitely agree.
Six year olds, IIRC, aren’t, however, the greatest at execution or follow-through or patience. Anyone with kids in that range have a view on how long he could actually keep himself hidden before he got hungry or bored or lonely?
No. Neither will I use it as an excuse to insult strangers on the Internet. If you don’t care what happened to this boy, I would suggest not following the story.
I agree that’s an awfully long time for a 6-year old to hide. Kids that age hide for 10 or 15 minutes, not for hours on end.
I hope he curled up under a hedge somewhere and fell asleep.
Just FYI, you should be able to do that yourself now.
While there are millions of children in peril everyday, this is quite a unique situation. It is singular in its type of desperation, and also offers the anticipation that the kid will be safe.
To accuse people of following a story like this on the news as enjoying some sort of entertainment is pretty short-sighted, narrow-minded, and presumptuous. Did you enjoy the “show” on 9/11/2001?
My prediction is that the older kid, the one who reported that the child had gotten in the balloon, is responsible.
Michael Jackson’s going to be mad that his takeout order to heaven didn’t arrive.
Either that or he fell out somewhere and is hurt. How are they doing the search? I would think they’d start at the house and spiral out from there?
This really isn’t the right time or place for tasteless jokes. Start a Pit thread if you’d like to do so.
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That occurred to me.
Is thisthe older kid?
I read that this family was on Wife Swap. They were a danger courting family (storm chasing, etc.) while they traded with a very safety oriented family. Hijinks ensued.
My thought exactly.
Wait. The kid’s name is Falcon? Really?
It wasn’t an insult, it was a question.
The idea of watching what should be a family’s private despair played out live on TV (well, the internet, really, as I’m at work and can’t watch anything) oogs me out. I’ll wait for tomorrow’s headlines.
So now they’re saying that there was originally a box attached to the thing and that’s what the kid climbed into but the balloon seen flying and crashing did not have the box attached.
Just read that a pod that was attached to the balloon is missing. Probably in a nearby backyard somewhere, doesn’t it seem?
Got the engineering software out and cranked some numbers. We had to estimate the exact size and shape from the description of “20 feet wide, 5 high” being bandied about. Depending on exact volume, the lifting capacity is between 39 and 65 pounds total - that would be kid, balloon, “pod”, everything. That just doesn’t seem reasonable, unless the 6 year old is a really, really, really small 6 year old because the structure of that thing is going to have weight, too. And that’s the largest possible volume with those dimensions, which I don’t think that thing was.
Oh, and about $1,500 worth of helium.
I don’t think the kid was on board. I think he was messing with daddy’s toy and it got away. Anticipating a spanking, he went and hid somewhere.
I have a very, very bad feeling about this. I think somebody did something to the kid, and set off the balloon as a distraction.
Obviously, I hope I’m wrong.