Child 'Floats Off In Hot Air Balloon'

[Gary]

Child 'Floats Off In Hot Air Balloon'
A child of six has floated away in a hot air balloon after climbing into the makeshift craft in Colorado, USA, reports say. The silver balloon, which resembles a flying saucer, can be seen drifting thousands of feet in the air.

Authorities on the ground in Denver are now desperately trying to work out how to rescue the boy safely.

Police said there was no way to reach the boy inside or to ascertain his condition.

The Denver Post newspaper reported that the boy got into the home-made balloon at his family's home in Fort Collins and that it then came loose from its tether.

A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman Mike Fergus says the agency had been notified and it was unclear whether traffic controllers had picked it up on radar.

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[Tonks]

They are now saying that the thing has landed and there is no one in it... what a strange story!

[Gary]

Kid found alive in his house

A six-year-old boy thought to have been carried away by a helium balloon in Colorado was in fact hiding in a box in an attic at home, an official has said.

full story BBC News

[Gary]

Something dodgy about the whole thing check out the family interview http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=44261

[Mike]

"Child floats off in hot air balloon"
Good

[gonk]

Parents for the high jump.going by both sky and the beeb, stupid gits,

[HighlandSniper]

Nothing to see here, move along ... ... ...

[JG71]

Theres plenty of little horrible children around my way that need floating away and their parents.

[Blackcat1]

JG71 Said

"Theres plenty of little horrible children around my way that need floating away and their parents. "

Same here!! they live right opposite and next door and they are the noisest buggers you could imagine from 4am onwards!!!!

Iv'e heard of dropping a floater but thats ridicilous!!