As you Americans know, the Heene family pulled a hoax with a balloon about a week ago from the time this was posted. Now, I'm reading about how they might have their kids taken and such. What's your opinion? Was what they did really as bad as what people say? I think not, personally. Sure, they wasted the valuable time of both us and 911, but nobody got hurt, and the worst that happened is that the kid threw up on TV.

Why is this not in Spam? Because I want intelligent discussion. Not a debate, either. Just opinions. Or, occasionally, facts.

I lol'd so hard at that.

Yeah, I kind of did too. They shouldn't have told him what was going on.

Also, I love how he miraculously "teleports" to the attic.

His parents told him to hide in the attic for a few hours.

If we believe the story, he was in the balloon, then in the attic. Note the "s.

Frankly, I hope the pending lawsuit (from the county) I heard about goes through. I hate attention whores %::%

Same.

Who cares? Don't feed the troll.

The dad is a total fag

America's greatest troll.

Hey, I'm from Australia, and I heard about this. News does travel.

Renegade, there are a few of us that desperately hope the stupid shit Americans do DOESN'T get outside the borders. You'll have to pardon wishful thinking on the OP's part.

well the lawsuit will be fun attention whores in court Well they did waste over 4000 dollars worth of emergency services. They closed down the nearby airport.

Our country is really messed up. Not to say that most countries aren't.

Agreed.

Then leave.

See, this hoax was quite funny to me because I had seen this precise family on motherswap a couple weeks before.