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OMG - boy in balloon
Has anyone been following the crazy story about the boy who got carreid away by the giant helium balloon this afternoon?
MIL and I were watching an old "Wife Swap" rerun earlier this week, which had the parents of this very same boy as one of the swap couples. Now, some of the parents on that show can be pretty outrageous, but MIL and I were both astounded at how incredibly awful this father was--beyond the usual level of terribleness on the show. And now he may have lost his own child. Unbelievable. Poor kids.
Re: OMG - boy in balloon
Jaime & Brent
Oahu, Hawaii | Sept. 9, 2005
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I just saw that this afternoon - poor kid! He could have been dumped out anywhere! I hope he's ok!
But wow that the parents were on wife swap! weird!
I happened to see someone post this on another board and I was having trouble picturing it. What a bizarre situation. I didn't know the wife swap thing either. Strange.
So glad he's ok, but oh my - what a bizarre mess.
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I didn't hear about any of this until this morning on Headline News. As the story went on, I started to feel exactly the same way! As the story started out, it seemed perfectly believable that a kid would hide in the attic if he thgouht he was going to get in trouble, especially if his dad is as terrible as Anna mentioned above.
But then, they cut to a clip of a reporter interviewing the kid, and it was all downhill from there (for me). To let your child be interviewed by reporters after all this, and then I heard he was either on, or called into, Larry King's show? A six-year-old kid on Larry King?! If that was my child, there's no way would I let the media anywhere near him. One: to protect the kid from that kind of exposure, and two: to make d*mn sure he doesn't think positive attention is the reward you get for raising eight different kinds of he11.
As I was thinking that, they mentioned that the parents had been on a reality TV show (they didn't say which one). At that point I was totally disgusted! If it didn't start out as a ploy for attention - and I'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on that - they certainly are taking advantage of the opportunity now. What is the deal with these parents?