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Offline AKHog

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Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« on: October 16, 2009, 10:23:50 AM »
Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?

Discuss.

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Offline Nwbie

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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2009, 10:25:10 AM »
I'm leaning towards reality show wanna-be's
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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2009, 10:29:27 AM »
"Now that we got the boy out of the way, we can clearly see from the 2 hours of filming that my balloon is more than capable of carrying data equiptment into the heart of a storm."
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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2009, 10:29:44 AM »
I'm leaning towards I'm already sick of hearing about it.
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Offline Westy

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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2009, 11:09:03 AM »
 I'm leaning toward this being an attention hoaring hoax.  I watched some of their live
interview on CNN last night and in no time at all it was clear as day that the family as
whole are very odd and strange. In other words they are absolutely wacked.  Odd
that the father did all the talking too. Either the kids could not due to dad saying he'd
beat the snot out of them if they did or they're incapable of answering because a
complete lack of social skills (or IQ) .

So. Got up, made breakfast and turned on the tv this am. What do I see? More live
interviews with them! I'm pretty sure this was for the attention.
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Offline AKHog

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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2009, 12:23:22 PM »
Like Westy said, this guy and his family are simply crazy. This is some weird hoax they must have created for attention.

Live onCNN:
Dad, "Why didn't you come out"
Kid, "You guys said... we did this for the show"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI6UONWCq7A


Supposed home video of the balloon being released:
Dad is a bad actor too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJm1RsXRw0s



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Offline Twizzty

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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2009, 12:29:20 PM »
Quote from: AKHog on October 16, 2009, 12:23:22 PM
Like Westy said, this guy and his family are simply crazy. This is some weird hoax they must have created for attention.
Live onCNN:
Dad, "Why didn't you come out"
Kid, "You guys said... we did this for the show"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI6UONWCq7A

Anyone else here what happens at the 44 second mark in that video...hehe.

Hmm...attention starved? Oh, yeah. This is the same guy that was on wife swap...twice.
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Offline mechanic

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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2009, 12:31:02 PM »
As soon as the boy was found unharmed i thought it was a load of bollocks even before the foul up on CNN, as did grizz before me and others in the original thread. Clearly the are not crazy but they are essentialy media prostitutes and have cost alot of money to someone.
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Offline Rich46yo

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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2009, 01:12:39 PM »
Quote from: Nwbie on October 16, 2009, 10:25:10 AM
I'm leaning towards reality show wanna-be's

Actually they were already in one. The wife swapping one.

Imagine how many rescuers lives they put in jeopardy with their fame game? I hope they end up in prison.
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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2009, 01:18:26 PM »
Quote from: Rich46yo on October 16, 2009, 01:12:39 PM
Actually they were already in one.
You beat me to it. This was a hoax to get attention. They should be rewarded with starring roles in a new reality show "Lockup 24/7".
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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2009, 01:29:59 PM »
Quote from: Treize69 on October 16, 2009, 10:29:44 AM
I'm leaning towards I'm already sick of hearing about it.

I'm already there, here have a beer bro. 
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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2009, 02:00:18 PM »
Quote from: Treize69 on October 16, 2009, 10:29:44 AM
I'm leaning towards I'm already sick of hearing about it.
+1   :aok
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Offline StokesAk

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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2009, 02:11:25 PM »
You hear the farting noise at :43? lol
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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2009, 02:21:23 PM »
Quote from: Nwbie on October 16, 2009, 10:25:10 AM
I'm leaning towards reality show wanna-be's

They were on a reality show awhile back.. trading spouses, maybe they miss the limelight, know one will ever know, at least not yet.. As far as watching that video of it lifting off, now that looked alittle phony, they way it was moving it just looked empty to me, if there was the boy inside the basket it would not of been moving like it was empty.
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Offline Karnak

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Re: Balloon Boy: Real or Hoax?
« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2009, 02:31:25 PM »
Sheriff says, not hoax.
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