Posted on 10/15/2009 7:18:44 PM PDT by dragnet2
http://laist.com/2009/10/15/uncomfortable_moment_balloon_boy_te.php
Also on KFI Los Angeles, we just heard it...
my mother would be so busy beating my little punk a$$ the cameramen would have turned aound... fade to black... fade back in to boy crying. I’d have deserved it to.
TOLD Ya’ll It was a HOAX....
I suspect the older siblings may have had more of a hand in it than the parents.
Yep. Someone could end up paying some big $$$$ to the city and state and whatever other resources were wasted. Those TV stations and cable channels probabaly skipped some commercials for it.
Oh yeah!
That Dad seemed to act like he didn’t hear what his own boy said....
Too much!
Yes and they should get the bill for the disruption of everyones day cops rescue peeps the airliners
They need to lock his mom and dad up in prison and make them pay for the entire “rescue” costs.
Lawd. Is this a testament to NEVER go on reality shows? The fam was on ‘Wife Swap’ from what I read.
“they should get the bill for the disruption of everyones day cops rescue peeps the airliners”
Just the cops DONUT Bill alone could run into 5 digits on this one!!
I suspect the older siblings may have had more of a hand in it than the parents.
I made the following point on an earlier thread: the father knew that the son could only have been in the basket attached to the bottom of the balloon. The television video showed perfectly clearly that there was no basket attached to the bottom of the balloon! Therefore, the father is responsible for allowing emergency responders to chase on the ground after the balloon for a couple of hours, fearing the entire time that the life of a child was at risk. The father is also responsible for allowing the story of what was only a drifting empty balloon to monopolize network and cable news shows for a couple of hours on Thursday afternoon.
The father should be in some serious trouble.
YUP!!!!!
I thought of that as soon as the news reports said something about his old man being on the “Wife Swapping” show or some other trash.
He had his fifteen minutes, and decided he didn’t want to live in obscurity.
Charges?
Filing a false police report...???
The interview I saw, the kid’s old man spent more time explaining (promoting) the “craft” than talking about the incident. Smells funny, for sure.
I expect he’s going to get a whopping bill for all this.
I almost called in to the local talk show to say that this kid should foot the bill and payback everything through community service....I just figured I would somehow be labled a racist...
Yeah but that would lead to obstruction of justice and witness tampering charges.
They reporting this is a bombshell
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Dad: Did you hear us calling you”
Balloon Boy: Yes
Dad: Why didn’t you come out...
Balloon Boy: “Because you guys said we did this for the show”
Yep, he ought to. It should also be investigated whether he misled emergency responders in any way, especially by failing to point out that since there was no basket attached to the balloon, his son could not be in it!
See 17...That is exactly what he said on tape with CNN
poor boy. He really messed up. How could they put their hoax on the shoulders of a 6 year old boy?
Have they never seen the show “Kids say the darndest things”
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