Posted on 10/19/2009 12:56:36 PM PDT by djf
OK!
Everybody is about this time getting pretty ballooned out!
There is a growing sentiment that Balloon dad and Balloon mom should be charged criminally, even calls for the children to be removed.
IMHO, it's time to take a step back, think about things a bit. Make no mistake, I very much support mom and dad getting slapped upside the head a time or two.
BUT!!!!
What they did was stupid, I would argue it was not criminal. Think about it. There's way more criminality in a car jacking than this incident. And as much as I've seen, I have yet to see anyone make an honest claim that balloons intentions were to harm or rip off anybody.
And while it seems to be far from what some would call an "ideal family", it is a man - and a woman - and their three children. I doubt anybody could call hanging out with their dad a classic education, but would wager the kids are getting some pretty interesting exposure to the sciences and technologies.
Finally, out of all the things that might have happened to the kids, no doubt it would traumatize them the most by having their parents tossed in jail. I remember as a young child having my dad spend a few days in the slammer (it was failure to appear type thing), and it was a pretty negative experience.
So.
No doubt they will be charged with something. They will probably be found guilty. Sentence could include turning over any book or movie rights to help restoration efforts for damages. No way should he profit over it.
But this is a call for cooler heads to prevail. It's an odd family, but hey, it IS a family! Let's try to keep it intact, and out of the judicial system.
Good for you, I find most “public servents” are a bunch of damn slackers who cannot get a real job in the real world. Good day to you.
“For that, they should get a medal.”
My point exactly!
Wrong government employees, or do you not like firemen?
Boy are you an infant. Castigate all for the sins of some.
It is my understanding the release of the balloon was accidental. What the parents did following the release, however, was criminal.
“As a retired prosecutor from New York, I would sit down and thumb through the Penal Law page by page, and charge them with everything that their conduct fit.”
Awwwww, man.... do you gotta be a RETIRED prosecutor?
Come back, we need you...
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