I have been following up this case and like many others, I honestly thought that there was a child in the balloon. I think the authorities should charge him for wasting the police time. I mean there are so many crimes committed each day where child are involved and the police should have been focusing on this. Not chasing after a balloon only to learn that no one was in it. He keeps saying that it was done for a show. Why doesn't he name the show? Or does he mean, it was televised as a publicity stunt? I saw on one of the networks, that the child protective services will be called in to investigate this matter. Here are more details on this report:
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I think the poor boy is very overwhelmed and is getting sick with all the attention. When he was being interviewed, he told his mother that he was going to be sick and threw up twice.
Not a hoax? Are they not watching the news? First they say the balloon left the ground accidently and they did not know it had gotten loose then they release video of it actually being launched? They knew their child was not on board but yet they tried to make us all believe that the child got in and somehow launched it on his own accidently. I think the kids need to be taken from these two.
Anyone surprised? It seems the police was when they said: