As many of you may have heard this news story about the helium balloon that was wandering over Colorado the other day. The big part of the news story is that there was a boy missing and he was presumed to be in the balloon. Everyone seemed to be on edge that this boy was going to die when the balloon fell to the ground, but I seemed to be the only one thinking there isn't anyone in the damn balloon!
The balloon was made of like a nylon material, not rigid at all, so if there was a boy in it there would have been an outline. The boy would have been able to be seen clearly as helium was the only other thing in the balloon. Also I am sure there is an amount of helium that it would take to lift a 80-100 pound boy with the performance it had and there is the possibility it had that much helium but again I doubt it.
Why no one rationally thought about this amazed me, guess it was a slow news day. It turns out that the parents were on Wife Swap at one point, and I actually saw them on the Soup, they are a crazy family and there is no doubt in my mind that this was an attempt at another 15 minutes of fame. It turns out the missing kid during an interview even said to his dad, "You said we were doing this for TV", some people getting the assumption that they were trying to get their own reality tv show.
This family is plain dumb and the news reports were just as dumb, it was one of the few times there were so many dumb people that I felt like a genius! I love that now everyone is like oh it was a hoax....I should be a reporter.
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