Comments on: Balloon Boy – a Timeline of Deception http://www.geardiary.com/2009/10/18/balloon-boy-a-timeline-of-deception/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: breleyhttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/10/18/balloon-boy-a-timeline-of-deception/#comment-50652 breley Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:35:08 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=54549#comment-50652 The fact that the parents had been reported to be on Wife Swap instantly made me suspicious, plus were there a child in the flying ice bag-shaped contraption, the weight of the kid would have caused the balloon to list differently and altered the balloon's spin (based on the non-helicoter video I saw). That is, the way it spun and hung in general at the early outset suggested that it was empty. If the parents want publicity, perhaps they ought to put the them in stocks (the non-Wall Street type) for public humiliation as part of their sentencing. The fact that the parents had been reported to be on Wife Swap instantly made me suspicious, plus were there a child in the flying ice bag-shaped contraption, the weight of the kid would have caused the balloon to list differently and altered the balloon’s spin (based on the non-helicoter video I saw). That is, the way it spun and hung in general at the early outset suggested that it was empty.

If the parents want publicity, perhaps they ought to put the them in stocks (the non-Wall Street type) for public humiliation as part of their sentencing.

]]> By: Gadget Freakshttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/10/18/balloon-boy-a-timeline-of-deception/#comment-69528 Gadget Freaks Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:53:13 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=54549#comment-69528 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">Balloon Boy ? a Timeline of Deception #gadgets http://bit.ly/QQbAD</span></span> Balloon Boy ? a Timeline of Deception #gadgets http://bit.ly/QQbAD

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