# Runaway ballon with 6 year old inside
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [October 15, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898 "2009-10-15T12:08:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/1 "2009-10-15T12:08:41Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/index.html)
Parenting fail.
And how do you even go about catching this thing now, other than waiting for it to hopefully come down safely on it’s own.
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### Author:  [@fiend540](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fiend540)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/2 "2009-10-15T12:15:47Z")
Someone will totally mistake that as a ufo.
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### Author:  [@letitroll](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/letitroll)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/3 "2009-10-15T12:15:57Z")
This is crazy!
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/4 "2009-10-15T12:18:00Z")
Ohhhhhhh man. How do you even save someone in that position?
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/5 "2009-10-15T12:19:44Z")
It’s not looking good right now because one side is starting to deflate and it’s getting a serious lean. I hope that kid has found a way to secure himself in that basket.
EDIT:
Oh man, the cnn ballon expert just brought up that he doesn’t see a basket, so the kid may be in there breathing helium all this time. AKA, he would have died a long time ago.
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/6 "2009-10-15T12:21:30Z")
It’s not deflating, the Helium is just shifting from one side to the other.
8k Feet!
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### Author:  [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/7 "2009-10-15T12:23:09Z")
holyyy
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### Author:  [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/8 "2009-10-15T12:23:11Z")
so at what point do they need to worry about oxygen levels?
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### Author:  [@frost12850](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/frost12850)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/9 "2009-10-15T12:23:14Z")
Totally looks like a UFO hahaha
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### Author:  [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/10 "2009-10-15T12:24:37Z")
wow…that thing is cruising! Hate to say it, but i don’t think that kid has much of a chance. And unless the thing is completely sealed, i don’t suffication is an issue. If it’s not sealed, it’s likely circulating a lot of air.
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/11 "2009-10-15T12:26:19Z")
Where is TORQDSS and his hot air balloon experts?
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### Author:  [@bigwoode](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bigwoode)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/12 "2009-10-15T12:27:18Z")
:jawdrop:
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### Author:  [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/13 "2009-10-15T12:28:17Z")
I think this thing was over Rochester the other night.
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### Author:  [@frost12850](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/frost12850)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/14 "2009-10-15T12:31:38Z")
Rescue Ideas:
1.) Helicopter above it, drop a man down to harness the kid outta there.
2.) Helicopter above it, drop a giant fish net to secure it up and drop to safety.
3.) Superman comes out of hiding.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/15 "2009-10-15T12:32:09Z")
> [@Geehee](#):
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> so at what point do they need to worry about oxygen levels?
12k feet and they need to worry…they are saying that it is now deflating
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### Author:  [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/16 "2009-10-15T12:32:11Z")
holy shit!!! What about hovering over it with a chopper, and or lowering a basket to it?
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### Author:  [@Treads4Heads](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Treads4Heads)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/17 "2009-10-15T12:32:47Z")
[http://www.kdvr.com/sns-hot-air-ride-tivid-live,0,3581470.tividlivestream](http://www.kdvr.com/sns-hot-air-ride-tivid-live,0,3581470.tividlivestream)
live stream
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/18 "2009-10-15T12:33:30Z")
You can’t put a chopper over it. That would be instant death in the rotor wash…
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### Author:  [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/19 "2009-10-15T12:34:26Z")
another live stream [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22887392#22887392](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22887392#22887392)
i wonder how many “UFO SIGHTINGS” will pop up as well today
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/runaway-ballon-with-6-year-old-inside/74898/20 "2009-10-15T12:34:27Z")
Pretty sure the downdraft from a heli would make things much much worse.
Looks like it’s getting a lot lower from the live feed.
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