I fell for it.
You fell for it.
We all fell down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass for it.
On Thursday October 15, 2009 we all watched as a little 6-year old boy named Falcon was supposedly drifting across the state of Colorado after climbing into his parents homemade hot air balloon.
I believe some of the headlines were something to the effect of “Little Boy Floating Away From Home,” etc.
Twitter had a trend going #saveballoonboy and the media called him, well, “Balloon Boy.”
Around 3:45 p.m. ET the balloon, that looked like a flying saucer, touched down somewhere in the desert and BEHOLD! No child!
Then, we all were stunned, where in the world is this poor boy? This poor defenseless 6-year old? Was he dead? Did he fall out along the way? What happened?
A few hours go by, and TA DA! The little Balloon Boy, named Falcon Heene, was found…at his house, safe and sound. He was in his parents garage for four hours…hiding.
Huh?!
Then Wolf Blitzer happened on Larry King Live on CNN:-
Around the 0:36 second mark, little Falcon says something that makes me more sick, than how I felt when I believed, a poor defenseless child was literally floating away from home…
“Umm…you guys said that umm…we did this for the show.“
What kind of sick joke is this? Followed by his papa doing some crying.
And if the dysfunction doesn’t stop there…apparently, the Heene family was on ABC’s Wife Swap.
For lack of a better term, fame whores anyone?
But this breed, they are the most disgusting kind because they manipulate their own children into their web of attention seeking.
Isn’t there a limit to how far someone will go to be ‘famous?’
Who is going to pay for this? It costs a lot of money to save someone: Police (two counties, over 100 people), FAA, local airport personnel, military helicopters…let’s put it at about $28,000 USD according to Anderson Cooper 360 (10-15-09).
Here’s the thing — should we really believe what a 6-year old says who obviously has had a very LONG day?
Okay — so bottom line, I personally think it’s a sick PR stunt, what say you? Dish it.
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Sasha Muradali runs the ‘Little Pink Book’ . She holds a B.S. in Public Relations from the University of Florida (’07) and an M.A. in International Administration from the University of Miami(’08). She loves Twitter and all things social media, so you should find her @SashaHalima or get a copy of the ‘Little Pink Book’ delivered to your Kindle.
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