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Balloon boy hoax (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 7 hours ago by Plum@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 9 points 6 hours ago

Man, I watched live coverage of that all day long. It was plainly obvious almost from the start that a balloon of that size could not have possibly lifted a child off the ground.