Now, there is no question that this was a hoax and both parents knew the entire time that the six year-old kid was not aboard the balloon.
Make them pay for the ‘rescue effort’ and make them spend some time in jail.
Yes if this footage was from yesterday they knew theywere sending people on a wild goose chse and owe for everything including the hours that Denver diverted the airlines to other airports!I’d also want to see social services look into what they are subjecting those kids to!
I would tend to argue that it might be a worthwhile exercise of the rescue system. It is advantagous to know if your rescue system is any good. It normally gets tested in rare real emergencies.
This little thing barely equals the massive clouds of helium ballons held on tethers by sellers at Disneyland. Looking at that video, it's plain as day to anyone with a lick of sense that the thing couldn't lift a chihuahua, much less a boy -- especially if there's any kind of battery power on board. It would be all it could do to lift a dozen D-cell batteries!
No, the parents shouldn't be fined. This is a valuable indictment against the MSM and officials who decided to pursue rescue efforts -- the media and the "rescue" morons should eat it because they were stupid enough to jump off the diving board without looking to see if there was water in the pool. I don't blame the parents for this one -- if anything, I thank them for illustrating so poignantly the abandonment of common sense on the part of the MSM and official law enforcement/rescue heads. I'll bet there were a lot of firemen and policemen with common sense who looked at that and just shook their heads at the assinine gullibility of their superiors.