A ,man fed up with his job, wife, responsibility wants to end it all... He goes to a local gunshop and buys a cheap handgun, nothing fancy. He practices with the gun for a couple weeks thinking of a proper way to kill himself. He sees a balloon and gets an idea. He goes to a park one night with 20 helium filled balloons. He sits down on a bench and ties the balloons to his gun and brings it to his forehead. He shoots himself and the balloons float away with the gun never to be seen again...

This was a episode on C.S.I. -Las Vegas a couple of years ago.

The balloons carried the gun away but the balloons deflated and the gun floated down in another part of town.

Hmmmmm. Ive never seen that one

Ther were quite a few urban legends re-written into a episodes.

One of them was: Scuba diver found with all his gear on, dead up in a tree in a forest, far away from any ocean.
That urban legend continues with a forest fire was being put out with a helicopter with a huge 'water basket carrier,' that sucked the scuba diver in when it was being filled from the air and then dropped on top of some burning trees.

The C.S.I. episode did a little twist with that story.

20 balloon wont pull up a gun.

as long as the helium balloon is lighter than the air it displaces, the balloon will float in the air....I can see 20 balloons carrying a lightweight gun....but I could be wrong...

the place i got this from never states what kind of balloon. it could be those humoungous suckers you can get at a novelty shop.

My thoughts as well,

Balloons can be bought in different sizes.

how the hell did the gun fire by it's self? i still fail to see why he tied a gun to a balloon? just take a gun to your head and pull the trigger...

i seriously should read before reacting lol, but still why did he tie it to a balloon?

Make it look like a murder

...and for the family to collect on his life insurance.

Bingo

That's a true story, actually. It was in the Australian news.

Yeah I saw that one! and then everybody thought the guy was murdered!

life insurance eh? made to look like murder eh? oh daddy, where are yooooou?

yes, I was only joking.....or was I?

ok. I was joking... ...

pee.ess. we shouldnt joke about taking others lives... *shoots self for being bad* son of a bit.. that hurt like hell! *shoots self again*

I own many handguns. It would take an extraordinary number of balloons, and a very out-of-the-ordinary light weight handgun to be able to be wafted away by balloons!

I get it. Ok but have you ever seen a novelty balloon? And of course they have the stage balloons that you can go INSIDE OF...

This myth was busted on 'Mythbusters' a 4 years ago. The basket has a grate on top and the hole at the bottom is too small to be sucked out.
There are other methods to put out fires and they also were busted in the myth.

I'm not saying it didn't happen, it might of happen long ago maybe before these kinds of bucket were invented, if so.

ermm what topic are you reading?

Hes pointing out that somes said that CSI turns many urban legends into episodes... Even though this thread is about the GUN IN THE SKY... O and on mythbustes they busted the long tube thing not the Bag that fills with water after being dragged on the surface

Read post #14 and I was responding to that myth. lol



Sorry Charlie, I didn't mean to take off with your topic.

At the time, I didn't think I was when I posted to your urban legend.

NO problem Bear's Quest, No prob at all.

Back to the "Scuba diver in a tree" topic for a second, they only tried the long tube thing because that is the only way that they take water up into an aircraft to drop on forest fires. They don't use any kind of bag or large bucket of any type that they have to either drag across the surface or dunk into the water to fill. the only method used is sucking it up though a big tube, which, like on mythbusters, has a grated filter over the end to keep from sucking up fish/plants/junk. No way is that story even possible.

so sad

so sad