Fuck me thats crazy. That thing might pop once it gets to a certain altitude, or it might just keep going to reach a height where you would need a pressure suit to survive, poor kid must be terrified. If this ends well it will be a miracle, fingers crossed though.
To me it sounds like a very badly thought out game gone wrong, how on earth you could risk putting your six year old in such a potentially dangerous situation is beyond me.

Vice City. But I'm getting mixed up, what is GTA IV if its not Vice City? Is there even a GTA IV in this competition or was I dreaming?

I always thought 15 minutes was said with a little bit of sarcasm and exageration, kind of taking the piss out of it basically.

ASCAP has credited Izzy as a songwriter for Coma, but this is what Izzy said about that song:

"Stradlin starts winding the tape forward in search of a song he can't stop laughing about. "Slash has this song, it's called 'Coma', and it's fuckin' 15 minutes long. And I still don't know it, man. I have to take a special chord chart with me whenever we play it. There's like 50 chords at the end of it and I just can't follow them."

http://www.chopaway.com/articles/1991thevox.php

He calls it Slash's song and didnt seem to have much to do with it.