The father's facial language in this image makes me ask: why is he grimacing? At the kid or at an adult, out of camera range?
Posted on 10/17/2009 7:19:32 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
You certainly could be right. And I don’t know if the Sheriffs are elected their or not? If he has to run for reelection, I can see why he wants to cover his butt.
They should just file the charges agianst themselves for wasting taxpayer money everyday on boondoggles as bad as this one that never get into the papers or on TV because they constitute “police business as usual.” Or maybe that should be “police state business as usual.”
DRUDGE
BALLOON BUST: CHARGES EXPECTED
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/17/colorado.balloon.boy/index.html
Loon Balloon; We did this for a show;
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091017/D9BCRR780.html
I think civil damages are going to be more onerous than any criminal penalty. Plus there will be the public shame. Any publicity bid has backfired in his face knowing that he caused rescuers to go on a dangerous wild goose chase.
These assets were already paid for whether or not they were chasing balloons or eating donuts.
Eating the donuts is less dangerous... and certainly burns less fuel and incurs less wear and tear on the items and people concerned, as well as not tying up the resources in the event they are needed in some other emergency.
Wow! Well, I’m sure mad at this family and there aren’t laws tough enough to give them life or 40 years or whatever our political masters think should be the punishment. So let’s pass another law so no one will do this again. Make the law real fuzzy so that any parent who reports their kid missing mistakenly is subject to forfeiture of all assets and parental rights. Oh yeah and make the law apply whether there was intent or not. This will mean more easier convictions for our tireless prosecutors.
There, that seems to be the level of law making in the USA these days.
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Thanx potlatch
Chech-ing out yer lynx
I hope you are right. Not sure about the public shame part though. A family that has their young kids perform a vulgar rap video on YouTube where one kid is shown sitting naked on a toilet at one point.....and a family that routinely burps, farts, throws up on tv............well i could be wrong but my guess is they have an extraordinarily high threshold to shame ; )
I say, using a child to pull of a hoax like this, is an important issue. Silly clothes aren't.
I hope those children grow up with SOME common sense anyway.
Yikes, I hadn’t even thought of the ipecac explanation, but Im afraid you’re right that it needs to be considered as a real possibility in this case.
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And many civvie & military pilots get killed doing Search and Rescue work
$7000/hour for the Blackhawk chopper
$4000/hour for the other chopper
Balloon-Buffoon-Daddy has a mucho violent streak too - and is a sociopath
Balloon-Buffoon-Mommy told the cops and FAA:
“He is in a flying saucer! A flying saucer!”
When I heard that on FOX News Channel - It all quickly McChrystallized
Both parents are - Grifters
Not everyone has a one track mind. They can be interested in this risky and abusive hoax AND be concerned about the Obama issues.
While watching the interview between the family and Wolf Blitzer, I mentioned to my husband that the demeanor of the children seemed oddly tense. I also noticed that the wife seemed somewhat quiet and perhaps a little cowed by her blowhard of a spouse. Considering everything that has transpired in the past few days, I don't doubt that CPS will at least investigate the family's situation.
The father's facial language in this image makes me ask: why is he grimacing? At the kid or at an adult, out of camera range?
Not really. This is a tread about a hoax, not about Obama. Yet you kept harassing people about their interest in this story. People don’t need to be focused on Obama 100% of the time... that would be mentally ill.
In the video, the kid says “You said it was for a show.”
The normal thing would be for the father to say, “what are you talking about, son? Did you misunderstand the man’s question?”
Instead the dad is momentarily stunned and says, “Yeah.”
And the mom would have also asked, “What do you mean?” Instead she says “No” to the boy. Very telling.
This seems to be correcting the boy to stick to the story.
Then the dad asks a bizarre question, apparently reeling from the boy’s answer.
“You didn’t come out?” what????!!! Everyone KNOWS he didn’t come out. The question the interviewer asked was WHY he didn’t come out. The father there seems to be very much disoriented and scrambling for thoughts.
The problem with these publicity hounds is that they didn’t prepare for the boy to be asked that question. And it backfired in a huge way.
“Going into law enforcement means you have given up your right to opinions and you don’t have th right to have personal feelings about your job either.”
I take it you would complain if given a warning when stopped for speeding?
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