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If Balloon Mom gets punished for pulling a hoax, then Al Gore and GWB should definitely get 100 times the punishment that she gets. They are guilty of pulling off much bigger lies, costing much much more.
Gotta start somewhere--and we have more to Do than dwell on the past.
DENVER — The mother of the 6-year-old boy once feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon admitted the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents released Friday.
Mayumi Heene told sheriff's deputies that she and her husband Richard "knew all along that Falcon was hiding in the residence" in Fort Collins, according to an affidavit used to get a search warrant for the home.
Both parents should loose custody and go to prison, don't pass "GO" and don't receive any money!
i don't think that prison time would do any good for these delusional people. But I do believe paying back the time used by the civil servants is completely warranted. Make them work off the money at a prisoner's pay rate. Also, they should be visited by social workers on a regular basis and have to take parenting classes ...
DENVER — The mother of the 6-year-old boy once feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon admitted the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents released Friday.
That's good...does it mean they don't get any more publicity (because that would be the real punishment!)
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DENVER — The mother of the 6-year-old boy once feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon admitted the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents released Friday.
Mayumi Heene told sheriff's deputies that she and her husband Richard "knew all along that Falcon was hiding in the residence" in Fort Collins, according to an affidavit used to get a search warrant for the home.
Both parents should loose custody and go to prison, don't pass "GO" and don't receive any money!
I disagree with prison. Prison should be reserved for the dangerous and habitual criminals of which these folks are not. A more fitting punishment- aside from the public shame they are already getting- would be to force them to pay back every dime of money they cost the taxpayers. Garnish it from their pay, attach their home and make it bankruptcy proof. In other words, you WILL pay this back. On top of that they should be forced to do many hours of public humiliation service in which they are made to pick up trash in downtown Ft Collins as people watch and sneer at them.
1)The TV network that had been reported as having given them a reality show deal had to do it.
2)Nobody watched the reality show so the network lost its pants.
3)The family had to turn over all of the reality show earnings to Larimer/Weld Counties and/or state to victim's comp fund due to state law preventing profit due to criminal acts.
People do crazy things all the time, all over the world. That's the state of affairs, anyway. The problem is the bubble of the controlled media which burst long ago when the internet exploded.
I wish we could go back to the nineties of sensible internet and mass media.
I disagree with prison. Prison should be reserved for the dangerous and habitual criminals of which these folks are not. A more fitting punishment- aside from the public shame they are already getting- would be to force them to pay back every dime of money they cost the taxpayers. Garnish it from their pay, attach their home and make it bankruptcy proof. In other words, you WILL pay this back. On top of that they should be forced to do many hours of public humiliation service in which they are made to pick up trash in downtown Ft Collins as people watch and sneer at them.
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