Posted on 06/14/2010 12:04:54 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Here's a dose of reality.
The father of teen sailor Abby Sunderland told The NY Post that he's broke and had signed a contract to do a reality show, "Adventures in Sunderland," about his family of daredevil kids weeks after she set off on her doomed and dangerous solo sail around the globe.
Laurence Sunderland, a sailing instructor who lives in the middle-class Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks with his pregnant wife and seven kids, opened their home to film crews four months ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Would you want social services(Big Brother) looking into your family? I wouldn’t.
Way to switch the headline.
"Knee jerk"? "Spewing"?
Go Aussies! Pay for the rescue again!
What is being referred to, or implied?
The father's revealing of the signing of the contract to the press, or the actual signing of the contract itself?
Interesting. This is a family in which the kids sail around the world and dream of writing books. Social services won't like it; they're looking for conformists and government cookie cutter dweebs.
#1 rule , especially for a 16 year old, you dont go sailing in winter in the southern hemisphere where every storm is taking a beeline directly at you and fighting you the whole way with seas regularly up to 40 ft and sometimes 50ft.. The southern hemisphere storm track is more dangerous with storms tracking for larger distances over open ocean than what we have in the Northern Hemisphere.
I can understand somewhat sailing around the world during the summer months down there, but Winter?....this father is a reckless fool...comments for the daughter are reserved for the father. From what I have read elsewhere Abby tried this trip earlier during the Southern Hemi. Summer and failed and the father bum rushed this for happening now.
I don’t have a daughter to beat. Only sons.
You got it. These anti-Abby (and her parents) posts all deserve to have barf-alerts. It’s bizarre. The media will give a story an anti-conservative slant and everyone here says you can’t trust them. Then they report on this with a slant and everyone jumps on board and follows them hook, line and sinker.
Abby was an olympic level trained athlete safely pursuing something she was capable of. There was an accident, but getting through the accident safely proves that safety was a key component of the attempt also.
Go Abby!!!
They need to be sued on future earnings.
So those are the only options open to the typical American 16 year old? Sit by the fireplace and read the Bible or circumnavigate the earth...ALONE? How about a first date and taking driving lessons as acceptable risks for such kids.
Yes it is, it is no different than child exploitation for sexual purposes, since the family wanted the money the child would earn. This act is far different that someone who has a gifted talent. It doesn't take talent to sail a boat, only know-how, anyone can do it and with GPS anyone can navigate, since the computer is going to tell them when and where to turn. No big deal. A ten year old could probably do it if you brain wasted him enough.
I'm sure you are with me though in wanting all their reality show pay up to the 500k or so for the rescue costs to be paid.
There is no reality show welfare yet that I know of.
I think "PIMP MY KIDS" is a more appropriate title........
This family's getting more disgusting with each passing day.
you gotta be the stupidist person walkin.
literally the very stupidist......
..no talent to sail ?????????????????
.. good God
Sunderland told The NY Post that he's broke and had signed a contract to do a reality show, "Adventures in Sunderland," about his family of daredevil kids weeks after she set off on her doomed and dangerous solo sail around the globe.
Way to switch the headline.
Good catch. Its Fox's headline, but its still deceptive.
Classic brain washing, total and absolute control.
We should be delighted theres still Americans being born with backbone instead of hiding under mama’s skirt and shirking outside play to instead sit at the computer and play “world of warcraft.”
So? What is the big deal? I was in college at 15 and doing what others might consider crazy.
I once swam 1/3 of a mile to a bouy in the Monterey Bay on a dare and on my return got caught in a riptide.
I won’t say it wasn’t scary but I did know how to deal with it and making my body perpendicular to the shore, ended swimming another 1/2 mile south to keep from being towed under.
I didn’t think I would have to swim that far to get out of it.
Oh, I was 16 on that one.
Still, there are plenty of surfers of ages 14 and up who regularly drive a wave towards the cliffs and do so safely everyday.
I also use to walk off into the woods for a couple of days, ALONE and still do.
At 16 she can drive but be responsible for sailing a boat around the world?
Heck, we put kids on airplanes, alone, to some other destination, sometimes to a foreign land.
I also, snowboard and will go through trees racing downhill and jump off a cliff if it looks fun.
What one considers dangerous may not be for another and what one considers mature may not be true for others.
How many kids are in college at 16(I was at 15)?
She is probably more experienced than many, including a friend of mine who wants to sail around the world, from port to port and I don’t think he is ready. He does and just needs a boat of his own.
Many are not prepared for adventure and some are.
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