Live Blogging Balloon Boy
October 15th, 2009312 p.m. - He’s been floating since 11 a.m. Mountain Time.
Go, Falcon, go. But please survive!
He’s about 8,000 feet in the air.
His father, a tinkerer, built the helium-filled balloon and somehow let it go with Falcon in it. More updates to come!
ABC’s balloon expert, Von, says the balloon could stay afloat “for hours.” Cancel your plans, folks. We’ll be watching this all night long.
3:18 p.m. - He’s about 6000 feet in the air.
The National Guard has been contacted.
3:20 p.m. - Brandon Williams of the Colorado Division of Emergency Management is talking about ground crews and what not.
There is no instruction manual that CDEM staffers can refer to, Williams says.
3:22 p.m. - The balloon is above Hudson, Co.
3:28 p.m - An expert is talking about how he could die from sucking in pure helium for two hours.
Oh man, the anchors are entertaining the thought of him dying.
But it’s a blessing that it’s happening over a rural area.
3:40 p.m. - No kid. Repeat: there is no kid in the balloon. Oh man.
Now he’s missing.
Theory: Could this whole thing just be ballsy PR for that upcoming Amelia Earhart movie?
The family was on Wife Swap.
5:53 p.m. - The deputy guy said he thought he saw something fall out of the balloon but another dude is all like, that’s bullcrap, the box was attached to the balloon when it landed. Falcon is still MIA. If he’s alive, he’s probably upset and alone. A box is missing. People are looking for it. I’m still intrigued but I have to get offline and pick up laundry in Brooklyn and then take my sweetheart out for a date in the city. Date night! Oysters! Martinis! Balloon Boy!
Monday, 7:15 p.m. Oh man, oh man. Well howdoya like that?
