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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:47 am    Post subject: Balloon Boy Reply with quote

Do you think the 'balloon boy' parents should lose custody of their children?

http://www.observer-reporter.com/OR/StoryAP/10-19-Balloon-Boy
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NO the parents are the problem,they did not put him at risk, BUT we know the system is to take the kid and investigate later.BB
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If they had actually put the kid in the balloon, then I would say yes. However, they never actually endangered their children.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

However, I think their pattern of behavior suggests that those children aren't in the best situation. Any further incident, and I think the children should be taken away for their own well-being.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Perhaps...I actually think taking them on wife swap is much more of a reason to give the kids to social services than this fiasco. That has to be ten times more damaging.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

People like this crave attention. The best thing for this family would be for everyone, especially the press, to ignore them.

They appear to be a little "outside the box," but that in itself is not a bad thing, one that would warrant taking the kids away from the parents. If the six-year-old was truly so afraid of his dad that he hid in an attic box for hours, then that might be a justifiable reason.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree 100 percent mom-the problem is, just like with "octomom" the media will NOT ignore them. They will continue to feed this monster for awhile.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Once it was discovered that the kid was safe, this ceased to be news. Now it's just tabloid crap.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree. The media needs to stop feeding the beast. As for the parents, I think that they should be punished the same way the "GA Runaway Bride" was. Sentence them to community service and make them liable for all the expenses of the hoax.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

These shows like "Wife Swap" and "Jon and Kate" exist only because people can watch them and TV networks can make money off of them. TLC should be ashamed of how it's still trying to milk money from the Gosselin family after playing a part in destroying them.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brant wrote:
These shows like "Wife Swap" and "Jon and Kate" exist only because people can watch them and TV networks can make money off of them. TLC should be ashamed of how it's still trying to milk money from the Gosselin family after playing a part in destroying them.



It is way cheaper too. We are seeing a lot of that crap now, and amazingly enough, a lot of people love these shows. Shocked
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Agree 100 percent brant
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Someone else had enough:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2009/10/21/moos.balloon.fight.cnn
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