EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT: Where is the 6 yr old boy?

[dryrunguy]

The balloon is coming down.

[dryrunguy]

I heard they were.

Also, CNN Headline News misspelled "amateur". Well done, guys.

That's not so bad. On FOX they spell it "amichurr".

[hurricanejeanne]

I'm hoping that somehow the child is found safe and sound so that I don't have to go on a rant about parents with feces for brains.

Words right out of my mouth. The question is, is he still in there.

[dryrunguy]

"Who makes experimental balloons in their back yard?"

Thank you, Rick.

[mmmm8]

Ummm... I guess they knew there was no kid in there, because they didn't even try to look

[Ti-Amie]

Falcon Heene is stuck in a hot air balloon. The six-year old is the son of Richard and Mayumi Heene of Ft. Collins, Colo. Richard is a storm chaser and scientist. The parents were on "Wife Swap" and returned for the 100th episode, so information on the family is online. They apparently sleep in their clothes so they can leap from bed and run after a storm.
Falcon has two older brothers, Bradford and Ryo.

According to tv.com, the family was known for their risk taking.
The ABC site says the family is "science-obsessed" and wrote the below for their 2nd appearance:

When the Heene family aren't chasing storms, they devote their time to scientific experiments that include looking for extraterrestrials and building a research-gathering flying saucer to send into the eye of the storm. In this ultimate swap, the Heenes swap lives with a psychic mom who speaks to the dead and can control the weather, her husband and her children -- who believe they are destined to be stars. This show will feature aliens, punk rockers, past-life regression and, for the first time ever, the children from the two families will face off in a kids' table meeting. "Heene/Silver," the 100th episode of Wife Swap, destined to become a classic!

Below is the family description for their first appearance:
Wife Mayumi (43) and storm scientist Richard (45) take their three kids, Bradford (8), Ryo (7) and Falcon (5), out of school to go on storm chasing missions to prove Richard's theories about magnetic fields and gravity. If conditions are right, Mayumi wakes her family by shouting "Storm Approaching, Storm Approaching!" into a bullhorn. The family sleep in their clothes so they can leap out of bed and into the storm-mobile. Richard calls Mayumi his 'ninja wife'; she maintains equipment, drives the storm-mobile, films tornadoes and waits with the kids while Richard jumps on his motorbike, heads into the eye of the storm and launches rockets to measure magnetic forces. At home the family are as chaotic as a twister: the kids have no table manners and throw themselves around the house, and while Richard devotes every moment to his research, he expects Mayumi to cook, clean and run the house without any help.


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1..._n_322736.html

[hurricanejeanne]

Ummm... I guess they knew there was no kid in there, because they didn't even try to look

Exactly. God, this is scary.

[Jtdrum10]

Ummm... I guess they knew there was no kid in there, because they didn't even try to look

I guess not. So why have so many people trying to get the balloon down?

[omess]

I'm hoping that somehow the child is found safe and sound so that I don't have to go on a rant about parents with feces for brains.

Yeah, hopefully!!

[dryrunguy]

Falcon Heene is stuck in a hot air balloon. The six-year old is the son of Richard and Mayumi Heene of Ft. Collins, Colo. Richard is a storm chaser and scientist. The parents were on "Wife Swap" and returned for the 100th episode, so information on the family is online. They apparently sleep in their clothes so they can leap from bed and run after a storm.
Falcon has two older brothers, Bradford and Ryo.

According to tv.com, the family was known for their risk taking.
The ABC site says the family is "science-obsessed" and wrote the below for their 2nd appearance:

When the Heene family aren't chasing storms, they devote their time to scientific experiments that include looking for extraterrestrials and building a research-gathering flying saucer to send into the eye of the storm. In this ultimate swap, the Heenes swap lives with a psychic mom who speaks to the dead and can control the weather, her husband and her children -- who believe they are destined to be stars. This show will feature aliens, punk rockers, past-life regression and, for the first time ever, the children from the two families will face off in a kids' table meeting. "Heene/Silver," the 100th episode of Wife Swap, destined to become a classic!

Below is the family description for their first appearance:
Wife Mayumi (43) and storm scientist Richard (45) take their three kids, Bradford (8), Ryo (7) and Falcon (5), out of school to go on storm chasing missions to prove Richard's theories about magnetic fields and gravity. If conditions are right, Mayumi wakes her family by shouting "Storm Approaching, Storm Approaching!" into a bullhorn. The family sleep in their clothes so they can leap out of bed and into the storm-mobile. Richard calls Mayumi his 'ninja wife'; she maintains equipment, drives the storm-mobile, films tornadoes and waits with the kids while Richard jumps on his motorbike, heads into the eye of the storm and launches rockets to measure magnetic forces. At home the family are as chaotic as a twister: the kids have no table manners and throw themselves around the house, and while Richard devotes every moment to his research, he expects Mayumi to cook, clean and run the house without any help.


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/1..._n_322736.html

Nutcases. Unfrippinbelievable.

And yes, no boy inside.

[elisat]

This is aweful, the kid is not in the balloon.

[dryrunguy]

So it's only the word of another child that the boy was ever in it in the first place?

And this family appeared on "Wife Swap"?

If it turns out this was a publicity stunt, I'm going to spit nails.

[Jtdrum10]

So it's only the word of another child that the boy was ever in it in the first place?

And this family appears on "Wife Swap"?

If it turns out this was a publicity stunt, I'm going to spit nails.

Agreed. This is too emotional for me.

[dryrunguy]

I changed the thread title.

[mmmm8]

So it's only the word of another child that the boy was ever in it in the first place?

And this family appeared on "Wife Swap"?

If it turns out this was a publicity stunt, I'm going to spit nails.

The video links at Huffington Post demonstrate the father, at least, is psycho.

CNN is airing an interview with a policewoman who says they think he never got into the thing (and that it's the middle kid, not the youngest)