Thursday ThinkTank: Colorado Parenting (With Update(s))

I, uh, am gonna go ahead and assume that this was an accident, but yikes. How frightened would you be?

Some of the reports associated with this story are just confounding and disturbing. I mean, are these folks looking to conjure up some movie rights to sell?

Live coverage after the jump.

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(Update: The craft has landed. There was no boy found inside.)

(Update II: Psych! The boy was never in the balloon. He was at home.)
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Please, For the Sake of What's Right, Turn Your Head and Mask Your Laughter

Yeah. That clip is...well, probably going to grow immensely in viewership. Not because it's here on the HoG, but because, you know. It's like, funny and terrible at the same time. At least, that's what our advertisers told us to say.

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