A six-year-old is trapped in a Homemade helium balloon over Denver

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8 points·rokhayakebe··13 comments

as weird and sad/funny as this story is, i feel it is important to chime in to say it really does not belong on Hacker News. don't down-vote me into oblivion because it is somehow "wrong" of me to make this comment. i just want to keep HN from turning into CNN, otherwise, no point in coming to the site anymore. lots of other mediums for this type of thing.

I think experimental aircraft fall under the rubric of hacking. Nobody complained about sticking a camera on a weather balloon to photograph space.

It landed. Empty.

Citation?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/index....

"The boy was not inside the helium aircraft when it landed, CNN affiliate KMGH reported. A sibling saw the boy get into the craft Thursday morning. Officials were concerned that the boy may have fallen out of it, an undersheriff said."

The reports are very confusing on this breaking news story.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Runaway+helium+balloon+cras...

It was on the live video feed.

In other news...boy cries "wolf"

Police are investigating whether the kid may have fallen out of said balloon.

Pretty compelling case for it being a hoax: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/9ufex/a_6yearold_boy_is...

At least I really hope so.

If this did actually happen, how would you rescue him?

For those of us familiar with international literature, this is not a difficult problem at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh

Next week's news: new restrictions on amateur aviation rapidly pass the House and Senate in a bipartisan effort to Protect The Children (TM).

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