I know a couple people wrote blogs about the situation that took place yesterday, in which a six year old Colorado boy was believed to have been inside a homemade flotation device that was accidentally released from its tether. However, I was watching the news late last night and saw that after the boy was found to have been hiding in the attic, the family appeared on Larry King Live via satellite and when the boy was asked why he didn’t come out of hiding when he heard his parents calling his name, his parents repeated the question, and he replied “you had said that we did this for a show”. This understandably left people wondering, was there really cause for concern, or was the whole thing a publicity stunt? I guess the family has been on the reality show Wife Swap in the past showing off their storm chasing skills, and the children have some kind of rap video on YouTube, so was the family looking for attention or were they genuinely worried, thinking their son was floating away in a flying saucer type contraption? Hmmm...
Here is a link to an article about the whole situation:
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20091015/US.Boy.in.Balloon/
This is a link to video from Larry King Live, with the family's response:
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b149261_was_balloon_boys_whirlwind_day_all_show.html
Any thoughts?
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I think I would have to say that the balloon incident was most definitely a publicity stunt. I also think it so cruel what the father made his son do because what kind of father would go that far to do that to his own son? That is so wrong for the father to do that. I heard that the son vomited twice on national television, I mean come on! The son was at the center of attention but for all the wrong reasons.
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