Comments on: **Update 4: Raw home video of yesterday’s balloon launch!;**Update 3: Boy Admits “We did this for a show”; **Update 2: Boy found in his home; **Update: Balloon lands, no sign of child; Breaking Drama in Colorado’s Skies: Boy, 6, stuck in “Flying Saucer” Hot Air balloon http://www.peoplespresscollective.org/2009/10/breaking-drama-in-colorados-skies-boy-6-stuck-in-flying-saucer-hot-air-balloon/ Bloggage and Original News Coverage From Colorado and Around the Country Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: capitalistbitch http://www.peoplespresscollective.org/2009/10/breaking-drama-in-colorados-skies-boy-6-stuck-in-flying-saucer-hot-air-balloon/comment-page-1/#comment-6802 capitalistbitch Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:42:13 +0000 http://www.peoplespresscollective.org/?p=16284#comment-6802 As a mom weighing in on this: The kid didn't say "We did this for a show" The key phrase is just before that. "YOU SAID we did this for a show" when talking to the interviewers. Six year olds are pretty smart, but they don't have fantastic impluse control. The kid was scolded, hid in the box, the balloon got away. He hears them stomping through the house looking for him, hears panic, and thinks they must be REALLY ticked. Maybe he fell asleep in the box. I had a friend who did this to her mom once after getting busted for doing . . .something. Can't remember what. The cops were called before she woke up a couple of hours after she had fallen asleep. I think he found out they blamed his parents "that they were doing it for a show" and just felt unbelievably guilty. I can imagine that as part of the lecture he got after he was found. After the relief, his parents would have been mighty angry they were so worried. I could totally see them saying "You disappeared, the news was called, they have been saying WE planned this as a stunt for a show!" Hence the statement "you said we did this for a show" and the throwing up after asked about it. I heard the 911 call, I'd be shocked if they were acting. They sounded genuinly, genuinly panicked. As a mom weighing in on this: The kid didn’t say “We did this for a show” The key phrase is just before that. “YOU SAID we did this for a show” when talking to the interviewers.

Six year olds are pretty smart, but they don’t have fantastic impluse control. The kid was scolded, hid in the box, the balloon got away.
He hears them stomping through the house looking for him, hears panic, and thinks they must be REALLY ticked. Maybe he fell asleep in the box. I had a friend who did this to her mom once after getting busted for doing . . .something. Can’t remember what. The cops were called before she woke up a couple of hours after she had fallen asleep.

I think he found out they blamed his parents “that they were doing it for a show” and just felt unbelievably guilty. I can imagine that as part of the lecture he got after he was found. After the relief, his parents would have been mighty angry they were so worried. I could totally see them saying “You disappeared, the news was called, they have been saying WE planned this as a stunt for a show!”
Hence the statement “you said we did this for a show” and the throwing up after asked about it.

I heard the 911 call, I’d be shocked if they were acting. They sounded genuinly, genuinly panicked.

]]> By: T.L. James http://www.peoplespresscollective.org/2009/10/breaking-drama-in-colorados-skies-boy-6-stuck-in-flying-saucer-hot-air-balloon/comment-page-1/#comment-6793 T.L. James Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:26:14 +0000 http://www.peoplespresscollective.org/?p=16284#comment-6793 The dad appears to be one of those "world is run by reptilian aliens" kooks, on top of it. Drudge has some new links up on this. Weird. The dad appears to be one of those “world is run by reptilian aliens” kooks, on top of it. Drudge has some new links up on this. Weird.

]]> By: travis http://www.peoplespresscollective.org/2009/10/breaking-drama-in-colorados-skies-boy-6-stuck-in-flying-saucer-hot-air-balloon/comment-page-1/#comment-6758 travis Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:42:57 +0000 http://www.peoplespresscollective.org/?p=16284#comment-6758 We obviously need a "Helium Balloon Czar". We obviously need a “Helium Balloon Czar”.

]]> By: Colorado Jones http://www.peoplespresscollective.org/2009/10/breaking-drama-in-colorados-skies-boy-6-stuck-in-flying-saucer-hot-air-balloon/comment-page-1/#comment-6756 Colorado Jones Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:27:44 +0000 http://www.peoplespresscollective.org/?p=16284#comment-6756 "Pause from politics"? Hell with that. This is a perfect example of why the FAA needs to regulate experimental aircraft more closely - yes, including all balloons. Even balloon animals. “Pause from politics”? Hell with that. This is a perfect example of why the FAA needs to regulate experimental aircraft more closely – yes, including all balloons. Even balloon animals.

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