balloon boy and charges...

[16th ave.]

Sheriff: Charges will be filed in balloon saga - Yahoo! News

regardless of what the authorities are doing,
Do you think the family should have to pay for all the emergency personell and tools (for lack of better word) used in trying to find this boy?

 

[Dadu2004]

Absolutely I believe they should be charged. They caused a ton of people to be frightened and concerned, cost thousands and thousands of dollars to the city and put their children in the middle of their sick prank.

 

[Father_0f_7]

absolutely, no question about it.

By the way, the family was on 2 episodes of wife swap (Amber made me watch it, it wasnt my idea) and this family is MESSED UP! The kids are rude, say words that I wouldnt even say to my worst enemy, and stick up their middle finger any chance they get. The husband is just a jerk and yells at every little thing. And the wife is extremely judgemental about everyone.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand...if infact it was never real, yes, they should be charged and forced to pay the city.

 

[IADad]

and criminal charges.

 

[16th ave.]

i don't know who all has voted since the comments are so few.

i think the parents should be forced to perform community service every afternoon 5 days a week & every weekend, including holidays until they have paid back every cent spent on their butts including the costs it will take to prosecute them for this stunt they pulled. While doing all this, take away more of their time by putting them both in parenting classes separately, get his head checked out and make them pay for that too with even more community service. Really take away all their free time used for storm hunting and science experiments and make these two grow up.:arghh:
and for goodness sake
get the kids put into some sort of extracurricular activities around people that have their heads on a little straighter so they atleast don't grow up with some kind of attention seeking disorder or something and can see that most people don't behave the way their parents do.

i've seen one of those episodes of wife swap. he did NOt want to hear anything that was against his point of view for anything. i think at one time he even kicked the wife out over it too. really made an ass of himself. she didn't do much better. this guy makes spoiled brats look like angels.

 

[Father_0f_7]

ya, he trew a glass of milk in her face.

 

[mom2many]

i don't know who all has voted since the comments are so few.

i think the parents should be forced to perform community service every afternoon 5 days a week & every weekend, including holidays until they have paid back every cent spent on their butts including the costs it will take to prosecute them for this stunt they pulled. While doing all this, take away more of their time by putting them both in parenting classes separately, get his head checked out and make them pay for that too with even more community service. Really take away all their free time used for storm hunting and science experiments and make these two grow up.:arghh:
and for goodness sake
get the kids put into some sort of extracurricular activities around people that have their heads on a little straighter so they atleast don't grow up with some kind of attention seeking disorder or something and can see that most people don't behave the way their parents do.

I agree!!!

 

[TabascoNatalie]

i was puzzled by this sentence in the article:

Investigators are examining the possibility of other conspirators, "including the possibility that even some of the media outlets may have had some knowledge about this

now i'm wondering if only parents are to blame.

 

[Nes]

In Ontario you have to pay for every firetruck (and I believe other emerg vehicles too) that shows up to a false alarm.* I think it's $100 a truck or more, seems like a pretty good system to me!

(Excepting circumstances where it really is a false ALARM and no one is at fault.)

 

[bssage]

I think were all good here.

Before the balloon incident only close personal aquantinces and people who watch "wife swap" were aware of what a complete and total moron/a$$ this guy and his wife were.

Now the whole world knows. I dont think you can put a price on that.

 

[Jeremy+3]

I think were all good here.

Before the balloon incident only close personal aquantinces and people who watch "wife swap" were aware of what a complete and total moron/a$$ this guy and his wife were.

Now the whole world knows. I dont think you can put a price on that.

Thats the thing though, America wife swap is staged, thats why when they show it in the UK they put a load of writing on the screen explaining that many scenes are staged for entertainment purposes and not the families usual set up.

 

[IADad]

really? They put a disclaimer up? Isn't that a little like Showing the road runner and explaining that the coyote isn't really harmed in any of the scenes?