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[Breaking News] Boy Floats away in a Balloon

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Stack24, Oct 15, 2009.

  1. Vinsanity

    Vinsanity Contributing Member

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    No, we are talking about a homemade project made of reynolds wrap and filled with helium.
     
  2. GRENDEL

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    Weird, figured the way the thing landed it would flapped open or something.
     
  3. across110thstreet

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    (even if...)what if the kid had died?
     
  4. justtxyank

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    I know. I'm just trying to figure out which race your joke was aimed at insulting.

    I just want to know because if you were saying black/hispanics are stupid I will react with the appropriate offense, but if you are saying that white people are stupid I will giggle with you.
     
  5. rhino17

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    They are showing the crashed ballon with some emergency crew around it but there does not seem to be any signs of the kid being there when it crashed
     
  6. IROC it

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    Pretty sure the plans or schematic of the balloon would have been turned over to the authorities.


    And now they are saying it would be mathematically impossible for the kid to even be lifted by the thing.


    He's gonna need child protection services to out live this one.
     
  7. moestavern19

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    Whatever it is, its mindless trash.
     
  8. justtxyank

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    Um, no we aren't. This is more than just some pop-tart container. It was capable of sustaining flight and carrying a passenger. There is nothing wrong with the use of the word breach to describe the balloon.
     
  9. dharocks

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    Then it would have been very sad and still wouldn't have been news.
     
  10. professorjay

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    And here you are in the general discussion of a basketball forum reading poop threads when you could be reading the politics section of the NYT.
     
  11. justtxyank

    justtxyank Member

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    True.
     
  12. moestavern19

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    Its pretty much the definition of news.
     
  13. SwoLy-D

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    No, sir. He's saying we would be eating tacos and beans or chicken and watermelon instead building some "flying thing." :eek:

    It was a joke. Let it go...
     
  14. justtxyank

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    Curious what would qualify as "news" by your standards?

    Further curious as to why you are wasting your life on a message board about basketball when you could be watching C-Span?
     
  15. rhino17

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    The kid very well could be dead, in fact, I would say he probably is
     
  16. moestavern19

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    I guarantee you he isn't.
     
  17. rhino17

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    They are saying the police is who say they saw something fall from the balloon
     
  18. Falcons Talon

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    Yet its all over the news. It sucks when you are right and everyone else in the world is wrong.
     
  19. DarkHorse

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    I think we should have a heypartner-style bet, with monikers on the line.
     
  20. IROC it

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    CNN said mathematically it would not lift the boy's weight.


    He was NEVER in it... IF that is correct.


    Although, older brother says he saw the boy get into it. :confused:
     

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