Don't blame the Balloon boy or his family...

[WCGreen]

Blame the media for blowing the story way out proportion...

If I was a parent and I had a six year old son who wasn't to be found after I discovered that my "experimental" mylar flying saucer balloon thingy was missing, I would get all upset and call the local cops as well...

[ecstatic]

1. except, he said he called the FAA, not 911

I don't blame the Balloon boy, I blame his dad.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Blame his dad for what?

Being concerned about his son?

[ecstatic]

10. Lying. He knew his son was never on that thing

How did his son get in the attic?

[Xipe Totec]

19. You know that for a fact, or are you speculating?

You seriously think the kid's dad lied?

For the purpose of... what?... 15 minutes of fame?

[we can do it]

25. Before Defending Loony Dad, Check Out His Other Attention Gaining Behaviors

do a google search- he has the kids cussing on video, was on wife-swap twice,

[Xipe Totec]

30. Not defending, just asking

But thanks for this reply, and the others following

Very illuminating.

[we can do it]

40. The More I Read the Weirder It Gets!

[Xipe Totec]

41. Evidently!

:popcorn:

[EFerrari]

44. "There's a certain kind of fool that likes to hear the sound of his own name. "

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

26. It's speculation, supported by evidence.

Yes, actually. 15 minutes of fames. Read downthread.

[snagglepuss]

32. Several physicists have been quote that by their calculations a balloon

that size could not lift a child which the father being a scientist would have known and the father would also have known immediately that the basket wasn't attached but he said nothing. So yeah I think its a publicity scam.

[Xipe Totec]

36. If the facts are as you state, then by all means nail the fucker. n/t

[luvspeas]

11. No way! it gets wierder and wierder....

I hope this story goes on for a while. There are some sick layers here that need to be addressed. Like - Just how much attention does one crazy family deserve from the media for NOTHING?

[ecstatic]

15. Guess we'd have to ask Jon & Kate, or the Kardashians,

or the Lamas.... :crazy:

[luvspeas]

18. what did the Llamas do?...I keed...I keed...n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

35. Or the Hiltons, or the Spears, or the Lohans, or worst of all, the Bushes

Look how far that family has milked publicity without producing anything of worth.

[Ruby the Liberal]

24. His first call was to the FAA?

Oh man. I missed that gem.

I hope they investigate this, and if they find it was MIHOP, make him pay every penny of the emergency services wasted.

[ecstatic]

27. Yep. Shuster was reporting on how odd it was that the dad

even had the FAA's number. But that was the first organization the dad thought to call. :crazy:

[Ruby the Liberal]

34. Thanks for the info. I muted it and caught up on some Ratigan vids here.

Something really stinks about this.

It bothered me that the father "didn't look" at the coverage when he was the only one to know the intricate details of the equipment and could have aided law enforcement about little things like a missing basket...

[GreenPartyVoter]

43. He should have called 911 to find the boy, but the FAA also needed to know.

[SIMPLYB1980]

2. It's a story.

Like all others they and we will move on.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Uhhh...

Nah. I'll go ahead and blame the family.

"I would get all upset and call the local cops as well..."

Before or after you call the FAA?

[WCGreen]

I didn't pay that close attention to th story...

Fell asleep when the whole thing started and woke up to the Balloon Boy found alive...

Had no idea he called the FAA, I just assumed that a parent would call the local cops first.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. There's good reason to believe it's a hoax perpetrated by the father.

[WCGreen]

21. Well, there you have it...

[we can do it]

23. Nope! the Attention Whores Strike Again

for more fun check out the cussing kids videos, or booger soup video, or dad's 2012 Earth Destruction Best Evidence The Psyience Detectives videos......

[Zix]

4. Hm.

Wellll...

I've a bad feeling about this story.

[liberal N proud]

6. Sensationalism

It should have been a local story after the fact, but someone caught this and took it viral on all the major networks.


It was hilariously stupid.

[eShirl]

31. it was more exiting than the live car chases they sometimes show

[we can do it]

42. Like the Guy Who Pumped Gas w/o Paying

[mikelgb]

7. Blame Canada!

[wickerwoman]

8. Watch the Wife Swap episodes on youtube.

He's a misogynistic, racist, emotionally abusive attention whore raising three of the most awful kids on the planet.

Any other family, I might blame the media, but not this one.

[WCGreen]

14. Had no clue he was addicted to the public eye...

[we can do it]

29. You Were Just Being Thoughtful Like Most of Were

however the family is just not right

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

28. Might the GOP have found their next Presidential candidate?

A toss up between him and Joe the Plumber?

[Ineeda]

37. That my opinion, too. n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. How can you blame the media?

They're just onto the hot story of the afternoon!

(:sarcasm: In case you're wondering... ;-) )

The cops would be the first place I'd turn to as well...

[Fresh_Start]

13. I just hope they charge the family with the cost for this

rescue.

So what if the busiest airport in the country was disrupted for 30 minutes or so, its not like that thousands of people were inconvenienced so that dad could continue to be in the public eye and get the attention he craved

[we can do it]

33. Me Too, with Budgets Being Tight All Over, These Freaks Should Pay For It

[bigwillq]

16. Blame the viewers

American people love this kind of crap. It sells. That's why the media keeps playing these kinds of stories.

[TheCowsCameHome]

17. This story is getting real interesting.

[cdsilv]

20. They must be rushpublicans - did this to distract from Obama in NO....

snerk

[TheCowsCameHome]

22. ...or take away from Rush's major trashing by his NFL pals.

[stray cat]

38. I like a good ending to a story - I'm glad I heard about it - it sure beats alot of news

[npk]

39. It was a huge story

I don't blame the media. If a six year old boy had been lifted off the ground in a weather balloon, and possibly had fallen from that weather balloon, the story would have been huge even without the media having to sensationalize it. I blame the father, well mostly the family. The family is weird, and they have done things in the past to try and get attention, including the mother going on a reality television show called "wife swap" This seemed like a tall tale straight from the beginning.