10-19-2009, 05:11 PM
Duchess Wrote:I watched the clip. It did show the balloon flying around and who would seriously think the kid was in there? The balloon was definitely not flying the way something with a weight in it would fly, and I doubt it was even big enough to have flown that high with a kid in it.SyberBitch Wrote:The 'balloon' kid puked on TV??Yup, I think it was the Today show.
Here's one thing that did cross my mind though... the father said that the balloon was supposed to 'hover' at 20' when they released it. Being a scientific guy, he would realize that there is no way in hell a balloon like that would just 'hover' WITHOUT a significant weight in it. Perhaps he was PLANNING to put the kid in there, have the balloon 'hover' briefly, then pull the boy back in - but maybe the boy was afraid and didn't want to do it, so he hid. Then the father released the balloon thinking the boy WAS in there, and flipped out when it floated away? hmmm