Balloon Drama

[rh100]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8309818.stm

 

[ianrauk]

I saw this on tv... amazing strange story

 

[UKPhil]

Funny how all the newsreaders keep calling it both a helium baloon and a hot air baloon! By the look of it, its not big enough to carry the weight of a cat, let alone a 6 year old child...

 

[rh100]

do you think he was in it in the first place?

 

[Crackle]

I hope he wasn't in it. Chills me to think he could have been.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Amazing story, wouldn't have believed it, but for two words....'In America...'

 

[rh100]

Hopefully he's just hiding out somewhere - playing a prank.

 

[postman]

I hope the child is not in it.Can you imagine how terrified he must be.It's a nightmare.

 

[threefingerjoe]

They found him! He was hiding in a box in the garage.

 

[XmisterIS]

I saw it on the news this morning; he was hiding!

My God, if that was my child, he would be on bread and water for a week at least!

 

[snapper_37]

BBC news are reporting rumours of it being a media stunt....

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i take it that's rhyming slang snapper?

 

[PaulB]

The kid told an interviewer that they just did it "for the show". The father has strenuously denied it but then he would, wouldn't he?

 

[rh100]

hmmmm....isn't that film coming out soon - 'Up'

 

[Arch]

hmmmm....isn't that film coming out soon - 'Up'

oh, god, please no...

I've seen very good reviews of that film, BTW, might try and see it.

I once 'disappeared', had the whole house (big house, several flats) out looking for me, for an hour, they finally found me sitting under the plantpot bench bench in the conservatory, I'd been watching people fly back forth past me in panic without realising what they were looking for. I was only 3 or so I think.