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Offline Questor

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This video explains a lot. OK to lock up the parents?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWJXXgaYBo
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Re: Video made by the family of kid who was thought to be killed in balloon
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2009, 03:16:48 PM »
No worse than stuff that I did at that age(and I'll be 54 on Sunday). What would you want? A punch of metro males that are stuck in front of a game console, scared to go outside?

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Re: Video made by the family of kid who was thought to be killed in balloon
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2009, 01:43:26 AM »
Yup.   I was born and lived in a small town about 65 years ago.

Like yourself wgnaz, we were a bunch of little scum balls that pulled all kinds of things that required butt warmings.

However, our folks did warm our hindsides when they learned of our transgressions.

They did not write nasty songs and film us performing them, including clips of us doing disgusting things like you see in their vidio, then put the vidio in a very public place.

I believe the point Questor was trying to make, is that the folks themselves look to be a couple of undisiplined brats who are obviously prone to staging things for publicity, and they may well have put these boys up to the balloon thing .
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Re: Video made by the family of kid who was thought to be killed in balloon
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2009, 04:10:30 AM »
To many stupid people with to much time on their hands. Kids will probably grow up and become millionaire's by making more stupid video's. Parents probably voted for Obama.  gypsyman
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Re: Video made by the family of kid who was thought to be killed in balloon
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2009, 04:42:00 AM »
was nothing more than a publicity stunt... They were on CNN and asked the kid why he did not respond when parents called him and he said "you said we could get on the show"  talking to his father...

More BS just to keep our attention away from what is really happening...

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Re: Video made by the family of kid who was thought to be killed in balloon
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2009, 04:35:09 PM »
I really don't think that balloon would have lifted the kid. When the guy was grabbing it in the field it didn't look that big. Helium has alot les lift than Hydrogen.
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Re: Video made by the family of kid who was thought to be killed in balloon
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2009, 05:07:28 AM »
I wasn't paying any attention to this when it was the hot news of the day. I fell into the trap that this was a plausible thing. But I was just catching up on the news this morning and it was clear that a balloon that size could not lift a small kid. Wasn't that ever brought up during the coverage of this. A little simple observation and knowledge should have been applied by the people doing the reporting. I took one look at the thing and it was clearly an impossibility.
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Re: Video made by the family of kid who was thought to be killed in balloon
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2009, 09:39:29 AM »
Another thing our intelligenti in the press didn't seem to figure out, is if the child was inside of the balloon, that the fall would not kill him. He would have suffocated withing miuntes in a helium atmosphere.
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