Balloon Boy

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/12/balloon.boy.charges/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

So I know you all heard about the great balloon boy last month. Everyone thought a little boy named Falcon was in a silver balloon that was in the air. The whole time he was really in the attic hiding. A lot of people were skeptical of the whole situation and thought it may have been a hoax and finally it was revealed that these lovely parents did stage the whole thing. Apparently the dad is like a scientist and he was trying to get noticed or something, but either way they are now pleading guilty to hoax charges. They are getting very minimal sentencing and a big part of them making the deal to plead guilty to knock the charges down to misdemeanor is because the wife is not a U.S. citizen. She is a citizen of Japan so any felony charges would get her deported back to Japan. I really can't stand parents who try to use their children as a ticket to 15 minutes of fame. It is, in my mind, a sad act to attempt. The video on that page shows the boy, Falcon, basically say this was my parents telling me to do this and the father still tries to sit there and turn it around on the reporter who was just doing his job. It's no secret that this world has some interesting people in it to say the least, but I am definitely satisfied that this was displayed for what it was, a sad publicity stunt.