Balloon Boy: A Children's Story

10/18/09 10:20 PM

There once was a family in Colorado. There was a father, a mother, and three young boys. The family loved each other immensely, so immensely that the father routinely exploited the family on national television. The family also did science experiments to help the boys' brains inflate like big balloons full of knowledge. Oh how the boys loved the science experiments. What young boy wouldn’t enjoy spending hours on end building contraptions that are far beyond his level of reasoning? The youngest of the boys was Falcon, and he was also the most curious of the three. One day Falcon was so intrigued by a weather balloon that he and his family had built that he climbed inside. His brother (allegedly) watched him do this, yet refrained from sharing this with his parents. Then...