Lawyers worth their salt as well as alert child advocates have to be asking: Was that balloon tethered in the backyard of Richard Heene an attractive nuisance? If we believe his son, it was attractive enough for another son to have climbed into it. When there are children in the household and in the neighborhood, who leaves a helium air balloon visible in the backyard?
The balloon has landed but no sign of the six-year-old boy who allegedly went for a joy ride.
They should kill this child to prevent further incidents.
Posted by: Timmy | October 16, 2009 at 10:55 AM
The family should immediately sue Disney-Pixar, the producers of the move Up! because it clearly gave the boy the idea that the balloon was a safe means of transporation. This is not the first time that Disney-Pixar has introduced dangerous concepts to small, vulnerable children. The 2007 release Ratatouille was responsible for a threefold increase in domestic juvenille injuries from knife cuts and burns from hot saucepans as children attempted to replicate the "blindfolded chef" character from the movie. I am already in the process of seeking class action certification and will explore the same approach when the inevitable copycat helium balloon excursions have taken the lives of enough small children.
Posted by: Art Chnott | October 16, 2009 at 03:24 AM
Turns out the boy was hiding upstairs in the attic the whole time.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21306839/detail.html
Posted by: Nathan | October 15, 2009 at 07:57 PM