Actual 911 Call - Balloon Boy

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Run time: 08:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCwx535AALA   Posted on YouTube: October 16, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 16, 2009 By DU Member: tomm2thumbs Views on DU: 1055

 

No need to post in the main page. Just want to see what folks think since all of the media is pushing things one way or another and I found this to be the most straight-forward thing I have yet heard. Open to discussion on whether you believe what you hear, but I have to say it put it in a different light. I'm Less Convinced It Was A Stunt.

Again, no need to post in the main page. I think people have had enough Balloon Boy today :)

Here's the video of the lift off without news commentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJm1RsXRw0s

[Buzz Clik]

1. Hard to say.

But, I've grown weary of it all.

Falcon is okay. That's the good thing.

[earthside]

2. I turned off Ed Schultz today ...

...because even he is keeping this going.

Enough already.

I want to know more about 'silent' filibusters and why four more GIs got killed in Afghanistan today.

[tridim]

3. Acting!

Beck is good at it, why not these two clowns?

[Common Sense Party]

4. "A million volts"????

I'm no electrician, but this story sounds preposterous.

[Arrowhead2k1]

12. What the hell is he talking about?!

:rofl:

[DURHAM D]

5. I am now thoroughly convinced it was a stunt.

Why couldn't these people just do community theater and leave it at that.

[lobodons]

6. 911 Operater: "it's a flying saucer..??"

ROFL with that response.

[newmac]

7. 60 pounds would have nailed that balloon to the ground.

Unless my physics is wrong....

[Turborama]

8. I was wondering how the media got onto this so fast...

... he was busy on the phone to them instead of talking to the 911 operator. At the beginning he was on the phone to someone else instead of standing next to his wife who was on the phone to them. I'm certain that 'someone else' was a TV channel. Also, his and her acting was plainly obvious, just like it was on TV afterwards. If they really thought their kid was up in the air in an uncontrollable balloon they would have been in even more hysterics than anyone else (you only have to see a tiny bit of their antics on Wife Swap to know that), all we heard instead were fake sobs.

BTW what's he shouting when he kicks the table?

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9. I heard him yell 'Mayyyumi' his wife's name on another video

first I thought it was a kid-safe cussword. :)

[Turborama]

10. He was shouting about forgetting something that I couldn't quite get

Have you seen any of the Wife Swap vids yet? After seeing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr_zA5E7n7A&feature=related">this one that happygoluckytoyou posted in the other thread, I'm pretty sure they don't use any kid-safe cusswords, lol.

:hi:

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11. I think he was saying the tethers - ie. tether lines that weren't tied down

hehehe - no I don't have TV

[Turborama]

13. Balloon Boy's Dad Called KUSA-TV

After learning that his flying saucer balloon–and, he thought, his son–had taken flight yesterday, Falcon Henne’s father called Gannett’s KUSA Denver, reports the Denver Post.

The call was placed around 11:30 a.m. yesterday. Reports Joanne Ostrow:

A panicked father reported that his homemade helium balloon was aloft with his son inside and asked the station to send a helicopter to track it.

The station complied, and a sensational TV story, in both senses of the word, was launched.

KUSA and KMGH, which entered into a helicopter share early in 2009, had some excellent chopper footage as the bizarre aircraft made its way through the Colorado skies.

The Henne family, of course, was a hit with viewers on Wife Swap some time ago.

Today’s coverage looks at exactly what Falcon Henne meant yesterday when he told CNN his father told him “that we did it for the show.”

Full article: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/blog/Station_to_Station/23851-Balloon_Boy_s_Dad_Called_KUSA.php