"We did it for a show."
"We did it for a show."
Balloon Boy, balloon Boy, Where’s my fifteen seconds of fame. Damn trash!!!
Maybe the Sunderlands can team up with the family who claimed their young sun was in the runaway balloon over Colorado.
Makes World Cup soccer sound exciting by comparison.
interesting
Thanks for the thread..first time I heard of it. I’m not surprised though!
Article regarding brother Zac from last July..
“I don’t know if he’s set to be on the Wheaties box yet,” his mother, Marianne Sunderland, said Friday in acknowledging that the family has an agent looking to sign her son to commercials and endorsements.”
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_12909391?nclick_check=1
We now return you to the regular diet of inspiration; Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, etc.
From another thread: “Mrs Sunderland, who is pregnant with the family’s eighth child...”
Maybe Mr. Sutherland ought to go on a solo sail around the world and give the Mrs. a rest.
I am so frosted about this. Sending your kid to her potential death is child abuse in the first degree. The kid failed, was behind schedule, put in for repairs and was then advised by her father to continue the march. Put those parents in a Dingy in the middle of the Southern Ocean in Winter. Let's see what hero's they are. That girl was facing weather worse that what crashed her for the next two months.
Honor the rescuers. The fishing boat crew that got her lost production, and the captain, almost his life. Fell into the water. I'm hot about this.
ping!
You’ll love this!
Dubya rigged the mast with explosives and Rove pushed the button on his magic machine.
I made the ‘we did it for a show’ crack when I first heard this story - but this is simply not the same. I said it as a joke - and I got a few laughs.
Balloon boy was a total hoax. Kid was never in the balloon. Abby was actually sailing - and would have likely completed her voyage had she not run into rough seas in the Indean Ocean.
I believe her brother was the former ‘youngest’ record holder for a short time until someone broke his mark. Abby was trying to set a new record and avenge her brother’s ‘loss’ of the title.
This is a family who is quite heavily into sailing and has been for some time. Not at all the same as the balloon boy hoax.
...and trying to liken her supporters to Terry Schiavo haters? Pathetic.
I suppose her critics want the state to take the kids away?
I would just like to remind everyone that the media has their own biased agenda and they are doing a number on this family. Abby isn’t giving press interviews yet (and I don’t blame her - she’d be thrown to the wolves) so the media is jumping on every decision, remark or plan ever contemplated by her family and unlucky enough (in retrospect) to find its way into print. In addition, the Sunderlands have a large family, they’re homeschoolers, and they are born-again Christians. They are targets for media attacks on all fronts.
I’ve followed Zac and Abby’s voyages, faithfully reading their blogs every day, and have been repeatedly impressed by their maturity, resourcefulness, and sailing skills. It’s completely unfair to judge them by their chronological ages, and I believe their parents deserve accolades, not condemnation.
Seeing what the media is doing to the Sunderland family is reminiscent of the villification the Palins received at their hands. Neither family is deserving of such treatment, and it’s heartbreaking to see so many people rushing to join the lynch mob.