Balloon Boy takes game form with shocking speed

that kids parents should get FALCON PUNCHED in face, and as for the dumbass brother who said he was in the balloon them aswell... on 2nd though that whole family should get FALCON PUNCHED for being a bunch of idiots. The dad said he was building an aircraft for people to use to get to work and back home with his family? WTF a balloon filled with helium in your back yard is going to do that?

No.

I'm already tired of hearing about this little kid. He already let slip on CNN, LIVE, that the whole thing was setup by his parents. The CNN guys were just too nice to let them get embarrassed and changed the subject really quick. IT WAS A MEDIA STUNT!

Ah, Balloon Boy. This whole story takes place in Colorado, so South Park, mark my words, will spoof this story.

You know, I bet it was all a publicity stunt set up BY the family for attention and fame. The family was on Wife Swap, so I bet that Dad was like "Wife Swap didn't do it for us kid! Get in the dang box in the attic! And you two kids, tell the cops you saw your brother get in the balloon! YouTube didn't work either. I need someone to set up an interview after this "incident". It's gonna work gosh dang it! It's all gonna freaking work!"

They were always publicizing themselves. I wonder...

Would've been cool if people reported the balloon as a UFO. That would be awesome.

What has become of the "news"... Nothing but mindless, meaningless crap.
If the "breaking news" or "top story" isn't focused on some stupid family or celebrity, it's the latest political circus performance... Facts are never straight, and the "real issues" are never followed up on.

Wake me up when Journalism becomes professional again.

All I know is that I am super pissed about that story and someone needs to pay. All that taxpayer's money wasted, all the time wasted by those people so worried that there was a real child in a runaway balloon.

Whether its the kids or his parent's, someone needs a spanking!

as soon as I saw the size of the balloon he was supposedly in I remembered the mythbusters episode where they float a kid with balloons in a hanger.... it would probably take 3-4 of those weather balloons to float a 6 year old

It's a rather sad indictment on our shallow society that a little boy is led to wholeheartedly believe that acting out is a positive, as it's all about the 'show.' I'm sure those were his words: 'doing it for the show.'

What show? The chance to be a five second celebrity on 24hour news? To have fat birds tweet their empty two-thirds sympathy, one-third disdain, at the outcome? Do our children really believe infamy is a greater end than quiet, hard work? The next generation are going to be even more worthless than ours, I feel. They truly will be the king tin pot of vacuousness.

the kid was on talk shows and it looks like hes got a.d.d and cant sit still. he looks like a brat and needs a smack. oh then he threw up on national tv too. he should used in a birth control commercial

I'd rather see the taxpayer money wasted on trying to rescue a child that doesn't need rescuing than some of the other things it's spent on.

That said, I did hear the bit about it possibly being staged by the parents. NOT cool guys.

Oddly enough, this game was commissioned by Obama himself.... using taxpayer's money.

Too bad it's only for the game.com. No wonder it sucks!

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I knew it was a farce from the get go. First of all ...if they were to make it believable they would have launched the middle kid NOT the baby of the family. It is like the red headed stepchild syndrome we have all heard about..the middle kid is frowned upon. If you were a cat and gave birth you would eat the middle kid. So no..this didn't fly with me from day 1!!!!!!!!!!!