You have NO IDEA if the kid is lying...but he shouldn’t be on TV. We have become a nation of mean, petty, doubtful, nasty people who think we are good. That’s the worst part of it all..and yes..I’m talking about you.
Hildy, I was in the Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta as the balloon incident was playing out. I strongly suspected right then that it was a hoax - that it would be discovered that the boy had never been inside. It had to do with the way the balloon moved, as if the box attached to the balloon was nearly weightless. When the boy was found at home - hoax, publicity stunt, fraud, Dan Rather. My heart goes out to this kid, who has been forced to lie to protect his parent’s lie.