Seriously, Media, watch some mythbusters and save yourself the embarassment.
(Heene Family Balloon Hoax)
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THANK you! So many problems like these would be fixed so much easier if people employed their common sense!
This common sense you speak of…
… it doesn’t exist.
It exists, it’s just so rare it’s a super power.
I’m a superheroine! My common sense told me, while watching the balloon go, that there was no kid inside – unless he was a perfectly still, perfectly balanced kid. Which they tend not to be (and which Falcon, it turns out, is entirely not).
Does HD news have more truthiness?
Or perhaps HD news have more falsiness?
I would assume the better picture quality would make their idiotic claims more convincing.
I’m not really sure why we need the news in HD. So we can see the anchors facial flaws in high definition?
You mean the male anchors’ facial flaws, right? The womenfolk tend to get booted for a younger model, when they become even close to ripe!
Isn’t that what happened to Hillary?
Or several Mrs. Donald Trumps…
HELP ME! OH PLEASE HELP ME. I just had the mental image flash though my head of a naked Trump with the comb over and man boobs, trying to seduce some young thing.
*hands over mental bleach* I have that same thought every time I hear that he is dating yet another ‘sweet young thing’. When you’re done, can I have another hit please?
Bleach? Pfffft. Mind dynamite. Maybe even nuklear.
Hmm. Snaps might do–that stuff tastes like (and kicks like) jet fuel!
Psh, you spelled nucular wrong.
May I offer you a partial lobotomy?
(It was a Bush joke)
The Bush joke would have been “nukeular”…
Actually, you did too. It’s spelled “nuclear”.
It’s true.
I watched it while it was happening and was appalled at the lack of intelligence used even by the media. If he was in the balloon, he would have either boiled or suffocated. If he fell out, the door would have been open. If there was a basket, it would have been so small that he probably couldn’t have fit. Way to go, media, you fell for it. Good job!
And the recurring use of “hot air balloon” nearly cost me a TV.
People are ignorant, alas, and the media dumbs things down for the masses; ‘hot air balloon’ is easier for people to comprehend, allowing them to realise it’s not just a foil birthday balloon.
Deep breath, hold; exhale slowly. The Heene idiots are not worth losing your TV. TV is your friend. Put on an intelligent, entertaining show (may I suggest Blake’s 7?) and ignore the news.
Actually, everything on tv right now could be replaced by Blake’s 7 and I wouldn’t complain.
Ahh…just imagine a world where little girls grow up wanting to be Servalan, Dayna, Soolin, Jenna or Callie instead of Paris Hilton, Miley Cyrus, Lyndsey Lohan, Britney Spears…
ya as soon as i saw that report i laughed.
there is no way that a balloon of that size can lift a child.
OMG….Blake’s 7 FTW!!
You could’ve just turned off the TV. Crazy idea, I know.
Hey, Keri. FU(K OFF. I don’t recal anybody asking you how they should conduct their lives.
Wow, hostile much?
Here’s another crazy idea, learning what exaggeration means.
They should have shoot the ballon just to make sure anyone was inside
If he really was in there, he would have died of asphyxiation.
If he were in there it would’ve taken about $10,000 of helium to lift him.
Three words: They got views.
The media made a sh8tload of money by simply telling about the story, without fact-checking it. The longer the story smeared out, the more views they got. The more views, the more money.
Why would the media care about the truth? Truth isn’t exchangeable for mansions and sports cars.
WIN.
If I was in the media, I would’ve done the same thing.
Ummm, was the wall of text really necessary?
It was. And it was a well thought out post. Off your meds again today?
Aww, was it hard to read? I know. Here, try a book.
And then they can make another sh*tload of money telling the story about the hoax – its win/ win for them – and they Heenes may even get their reality show – Hoax Investigation-
The news report I read said helium balloon and I immediately thought of the Mythbusters episode where it took a airplane hanger full of helium balloons to lift a little girl 5 feet off the ground. There was no way a minivan sized balloon could soar through the air with a kid in it. Unbeknown at the time it was all staged, I thought the kid probably let it go by accident and went and hid.
Heheheh, me too! Hilarious.
Exactly what went through my mind! Wonder if any of the Mythbusters themselves were watching the news coverage and shaking their heads sadly.
And I’m dorkily thrilled to get another LOL on the homepage!
I can just see Adam and Jamie now…
This makes four of us! Another difference is that it’s impossible for the media to talk abot explosions where nobody gets hurt.
Mythbusters! The reason my son was NOT allowed to use the microwave for a couple of months….
But if you put 10 of them together, it makes a weak refrigerator…
Amended George Carlin:
Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider! Then remember that the media is aimed squarely at that half!
Me and my friend were saying they should of just shot it down. If he was in it, he was already dead. If he wasn’t in the balloon, it wouldn’t do any harm. They’re STILL talking about how it was some “genious” plan to get a TV show. One, lable them idiots and just get it over with. Two, who would give those people a TV show? How does letting your kid crawl into a balloon make you more liable to get a TV show? WTF?
Stupid behavior is in fact rewarded in reality land. To wit:
Paris Hilton – famous for, well, you know
Bachelor/Bachelorette – chasing mates on camera
(extra fail points for the losers on one becoming the “stars” of the other)
MTV/VH1′s version of the above
SuperNanny (I’m totally clueless at raising my own kids, so let’s put that incompetence on display for the viewing public!)
Wife Swap (Seriously? Somebody actually thought this was a GOOD idea?)
etc., etc., ad nauseam
So yeah, in this lobotomy recipient of a father’s mind, pretending his kid had
fallen down a wellhijacked a helium balloon was a GREAT plan. And although they’d never admit it, some program pitchman is weeping because he didn’t think of it first.“Wife Swap (Seriously? Somebody actually thought this was a GOOD idea?)
etc., etc., ad nauseam”
Which is even more hillarious of an example because these people who set up this thing were on the show a couple of times apparently…
I didn’t know that – it figures, though.
“Me and my friend were saying they should of just shot it down.”
It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.
Funny thing is it even fooled Adam Savage. It was on his twitter. He should have known better after doing that balloon episode, but then, it fooled me too, and I should have known better after watching that balloon episode. Damn psychology.
The most important thing is, in the early reports no details of the ballon were given. There was no indication of size or type, as someone mentioned above in the thread, several times it was misreported as being an hot air balloon. So it’s easy to see how someone, even someone who should know better, could get it wrong.
Personally, I never did believe it. Can’t put my finger on why exactly, but the second I heard it, I thought “they know exactly where that kid is, and he’s not in that balloon.” Probably it was the part about calling the local television affiliate with a helicopter instead of calling 911 or any other emergency services number.
Wow. Somehow “relevant” got replaced by “important”. Now I’m wondering just what in the hell I told the person I was on the phone with while I was typing that…
is that a whale penis?
Hey, did *you* know it was a hoax? I didn’t think so.
I’m an idiot, sorry. Please don’t flame me too bad.
*flames gently*
OK, something like 45 comments and no mention of the spelling error. There are some grammar issues, but spelling errors are just childish.
The word is E M B A R R A S S M E N T. That’s with two R’s.
Well that shows once again that the general level of education in the US isn’t quite what it should be. Especially if people need to watch mythbusters before realizing it’s a hoax.
Perhaps it time to stop the corporate bailouts and investment more in proper education
Or maybe it means that people are capable of figuring out what the captioner meant, and didn’t want to waste the effort on the spelling.
You should be angry at the parents, not the media! What were they supposed to fact check whether a kid was in that balloon? It’s not like there’s a site that tells them what will happen in the near future.
When I saw the news, I immediately thought of the Myth Buster episode that discussed helium balloons!!!
That’s EXACTLY what I said!
THANK YOU!!!
I was beginning to think I was the only one who saw that damn episode!
hahaaaa.. supeerrr
I have a feeling this is pretty much dead-on accurate.