Monday, October 19, 2009

Chapter 146 Balloon-boy Falcon - Only hot air

Verse 1

So now it seems that the truth is out about the runaway balloon that supposedly carried away six-year old Falcon as reported here.
According to law-enforcement officials several charges will now be brought against Richard och Muyami Heene for staging the event where a massive rescue-operation was launched to try and save the child reported as being trapped in the home-built weather balloon.
Falcon was in fact hiding in the attic of the family's house and has said during interviews that it was - all for the show.
Police now state that the family did this as an attempt to garner publicity and get their own reality-show.
In a sense that is exactly what they got but what they probably did not expect was to face prison-sentences for a number of years and a possible fine of 3,6 million SEK due to their false report.

That a child can be used in this way is very hard for me to understand but to also abuse the sympathy and instinctive willingness of strangers to help in a terrible situation as this is unforgivable.

Go to Jail. Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass Go. Do Not Collect $200
At 14:11

4 comments:

  1. Agreed. Seems like they didn't think farther than their own noses/wallets. Either way, not cool at all.
    And though the kid was in no danger during the event, he now faces time with absentee/incarcerated parents and a lot less to live on. This is one of those times when I'd love to see a solid straight right to the jaw for the perps. Idiots, fuckin idiots.
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  2. These parents are completely moronic for trying to get publicity out of pretending that their child was in danger!!! And now the worst part is that they'll get the publicity they desired, although not in the way they wanted...

    You seem to have disappeared from my follower list. Perhaps you can come down and read my latest post here:

    http://dannysignifyingnothing.blogspot.com/2009/10/short-story-1-google-yahoo-merger_17.html
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  3. @Jon Very much to the point and in the spirit of what i feel too.

    @dannyd That is true but hopefully this is one of those times when all publicity is not good publicity in the end.
    I have added myself as a follower again, hope it works this time and thanks for following me.
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  4. @Mats: One can only hope that that would be true...and you're on my list again! Thanks for the comment on my blog! :D
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