6 year old reported floating away in helium balloon
19-10-2009, 00:06
|
#61
|
|
An Awesome Dude
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 4,964
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Chris
Well, those who suspected a hoax, take a gold star and go to the top of the class.
|
Yes well.......
I just cant believe the media was sucked into this as much as they were!
|
|
|
|
19-10-2009, 09:54
|
#62
|
|
Trollsplatter
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North of Watford
Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests
Posts: 38,289
|
Re: 6 year old reported floating away in helium balloon
Can't you? That pair clearly knew exactly which buttons to push. Anyone who understands how modern news distribution works, and who has the creativity and resources to play to it, is going to suck the media in and get lots of coverage.
Rolling 24-hour news channels don't do analysis very well. Their ideal is a constant stream of sensational live video footage. When they don't have that, a news channel is a very dull place to be, and they know it - so they jump on anything that alleviates the boredom. A big helium balloon with the possibility of a young child trapped under it is exactly the sort of thing they love to point their cameras at.
|
|
|
|
|
19-10-2009, 10:23
|
#63
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Jul 2007
Age: 37
Services: V BB 350
Posts: 4,099
|
Re: 6 year old reported floating away in helium balloon
Ah i feel like doing something amazing today, im gonna nip the card shop and get one thousand balloons fill them up with helium and tie them to a basket, then ill let the balloons fly off and ill ring sky news up saying one of my dogs might be in the basket that's floated off! then ill ring the police... sounds like a plan?.
I have to much spare time on my hands 
|
|
|
|
|
19-10-2009, 10:43
|
#64
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Jul 2007
Age: 37
Services: V BB 350
Posts: 4,099
|
Re: 6 year old reported floating away in helium balloon
Quote:
|
42 helium balloons holding 33 cubic feet of helium each
|
Quote:
|
33 (cubic feet) = 934.455938 litres
|
this is gonna be difficult haha 
|
|
|
|
|
24-10-2009, 04:25
|
#65
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Jul 2007
Age: 37
Services: V BB 350
Posts: 4,099
|
Re: 6 year old reported floating away in helium balloon
Quote:
|
The mother of the six-year-old boy feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon in America has admitted the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents
|
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wor...ga_Was_A_Hoax_
|
|
|
|
|
23-12-2009, 00:28
|
#66
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Liverpool
Age: 48
Services: Sky+, Sky Broadband and Talk
Posts: 3,819
|
Re: 6 year old reported floating away in helium balloon
Hahahaha, serves 'em right 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8427548.stm
Quote:
|
US parents who triggered a major alert by claiming their son was adrift in a helium balloon have been ordered to pay the $42,000 (£26,000) rescue bill.
|
|
|
|
|
|
23-12-2009, 00:33
|
#67
|
|
cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Half in the corporeal, half in the etheral
Posts: 37,181
|
Re: 6 year old reported floating away in helium balloon
Richard Cranium.
__________________
From Jim Cornette:
“Ty, Fy, bye”
|
|
|
|
|
23-12-2009, 00:53
|
#68
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Nov 2007
Services: 30mb BB, XL TV, V+, TiVo, talk unlimited.
Posts: 4,143
|
Re: 6 year old reported floating away in helium balloon
Quote:
Originally Posted by Russ
Richard Cranium.
|
You're right. I must say I've got a lot of sympathy for the kids in cases like this. Inevitably they're bound to suffer because of their parents stupidity. 
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 14:33.
|
Join CF
You are here: 
