Oh Dear...

alixzafiris

Have we seen this?[i]A 6-year-old boy climbed into a hot-air balloon aircraft and floated away Thursday, forcing officials to scramble to figure out how to rescue the boy. Larimer County sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella says the device, which is shaped like a flying saucer, has the potential to rise to 3,048 metres. Sheriff's officials last saw the device floating south of Milliken, which is about 64 kilometres north of Denver. Ms. Campanella says the 6-year-old climbed into the access door and was in the airborne device. FAA spokesman Mike Fergus says the agency has been notified and it was unclear whether traffic controllers had picked it up on radar. Additional details were not immediately available.[/i] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/six-year-old-boy-floats-away-in-homemade-hot-air-balloon/article1325053/

Soon-to-be Mrs. Vogt

Oh good lord. Where the heck were his parents??

gkb0910

I think someone needs to pay more attention to their son.

wadingmoose

Oh my.Supervision fail.

lyndausvi

wtf?

J&K10910

It just floated away?  By itself?  Something is really weird here.

salt78

Yeah that's some bad parenting right there.

vallyhoo

Goodness, gracious.

bbyckes

I just saw this on CNN.  The other details not immediately available is that there probably wasn't anyone watching the kid.  This is just fantastic.

gkb0910

Maybe Toto accidentally untied the balloon like at the end of The Wizard of Oz.

wadingmoose

Well, parents AND the people who own the hot air balloon thing.  I mean, shouldn't you be making sure random people/animals aren't climbing into your aircraft?

alixzafiris

That was my first thought. Way to watch your kid asshats. And apparently they don't know how to get him down now? That's what it sounds like on CBC News.

ggmae

That is so awful! I feel so bad for that poor kid - he is probably so scared. And Colorado? With the weather the way it's been lately? Ugh.

alixzafiris

It's a homemade balloon his dad made and had sitting in the yard Moose, from what I gathered.

BecW2be

Holy cow! How on earth?!? This is like that kid who climbed into the claw toy machine, only much, much worse.

tidetravel

Ummm.  It's a HOMEMADE hot air balloon?

bbyckes

Moose, the parents made the balloon.  It was a homemade device.

kschwedic

Oh good gracious.   And it's shaped like a flying saucer? That should make for some fun UFO sightings.

tidetravel

I wonder if they recently took their kid to see "UP"

BecW2be

Valley, this is unrelated, but your post reminded me of what FI says all the time: "Goodness me Gracious. Gracious me Goodness." in a scottish accent. He's weird.

wadingmoose

Ok then.  Parenting fail.And, wtf, how did it get airborne?

wadingmoose

And yes on the HOMEMADE air balloon?????????????????WTF.

alixzafiris

I think it had gas in the balloon so the kid somehow climbed in and untied the tether. And they said it can get up to 10000 feet high so they don't know what to do if he gets that high. Someone needs to kick those parents hard. In the head.And Tide, even though it's mean and I shouldn't the "Up" post made me giggle.

vallyhoo

Bec- I am stealing that, only I am going to do it in a Jamaican accent, a'la Paul Rudd in I love you, man.Slappin' da bass man.

lyndausvi

I'm in shock.. How does this happen???  

kschwedic

I giggled about the "Up" statement Tide made, too.

J&K10910

That's what I want to know.  Hot air balloons do not just float away  by themselves!

salt78

Oh my god the PARENTS made the balloon!!! Oh my god!!!!

wadingmoose

Am I the only one who thought that "I Love You, Man," kinda sucked? I mean, I love Paul Rudd, and his leprechaun slapping the bass was hilarious, but that movie was awful.

vicmo5

It's sad that the first thing this reminded me of was an episode of Little House on the Prairie.  And then oh my god!

georgia_bride09

Is it like a lawn chair with a bunch of helium balloons tied to it? I hope they get him down safely; maybe they can deflate it and extract the kid at the same time.