From MSNBC (the news hoax is still breaking)
Authorities were scouring the skies Thursday for a 6-year-old boy who unhooked his family’s experimental balloon-powered aircraft and floated away from home, sheriff’s officials said.
The Larimer County Sheriff’s Department said the boy’s family had been building an experimental aircraft that had a large helium balloon attached to it at their home, KUSA-TV reported. The aircraft was approximately 20 feet by 5 feet and covered in tin foil, the station said.
On Thursday morning, according to the family and officials, the boy got onto the aircraft and detached the rope holding it in place.
We will withhold our judgment
Then, from here,
Michael Brewer, the 15-year-old Deerfield Beach boy who on Monday was doused in rubbing alcohol and set ablaze, will remain hospitalized for months at Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, where doctors said Wednesday that the boy’s face and hands were spared serious damage.
Speaking to reporters, Dr. Nicholas Namias, director of the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Burn Center, said the burns scorched 65 percent of Michael’s body and that jumping into the pool following the attack may have helped save his life.
Doctors were hopeful of Michael’s recovery, but said the next few days would be critical because of the severity of the burns, Namias said.
”Resuscitation is going as well as can be hoped for, but it would not be fair to say everything is OK,” Namias said. “This is a terrible, terrible thing that will change his life forever.”
October 15th, 2009 10:42 pm
A small town in NH recently experienced the phenomenon of having four teens break into a house, hack a woman to death, seriously injure the pre-teen daughter, and steal some stuff.
Apparently, they had decided that they would burglarize the house and kill whoever was in it just to make sure there weren’t any witnesses.
The idea that kids this age even ponder such crimes is disturbing. The deliberate brutality and depth of evil to which they’re descending this young … that’s frightening stuff.
October 16th, 2009 7:36 am
It has been reported in the news that earlier this week in Sydney a couple of teenagers were spotted capturing a duck, attacking it and then killing it. And a few weeks ago I saw three teenage boys catch a fish about 40cm long, (nothing wrong with that), but then as it was wriggling around on the concrete slowly dying they were laughing and kicking it; then after a couple of minutes kicked it back into the lake. The cruelty of some teenagers towards animals makes me worry about how they will treat their fellow man as they grow older.