What a load of crap that was, it made the morning news here, my wife was practically yelling at the TV “This isn’t news, he was never in the fucking balloon!!”
I think the parents should have been watching their children more carefully with a hot air balloon in the yard. Telling a 6 year old to simply stay away from it is not sufficient.
I also think the parents should have searched the house before calling in the authorities or at least repeatedly during the search.
@rangerr Haven’t seen the video but I did hear all about it on the other thread that was running yesterday. Seems to confirm my beliefs. I can see how a child would get confused and say that mistakenly but in this case I think it is clear proof that it was for media attention because the rest of the story points that way as well.
@rangerr No problem. It happens all the time on Fluther and it seems people are still interested in discussing the topic. I sure the heck didn’t mind responding :)
@RedPowerLady That makes me feel better. And I think the family should definitely have to pay for the search costs if it was a hoax. Even if it wasn’t, they should still have to.
@rangerr Ya the family deserves some type of fine. But the police should have searched the house before doing anything else, I think they are a bit at fault for not doing that.
I think it might have been some kind of hoax. That family has been on Wife Swap twice, so clearly they they seek out media attention. Their prior TV performance combined with the kid’s comment seems fishy to me.
@TCH They claim they did search the house, and so did the police. The kid would have had to shimmy up pipes to get to his hiding spot…