Parents of Balloon Boy Hit With $42,000 Fine

[JMcEntegart]

We all remember the Balloon Boy incident. What a huge waste of tax dollars that fiasco was. Silly parents and their desperate bid for a reality TV show!

Parents of Balloon Boy Hit With $42,000 Fine : Read more

 

[sliem]

Justice.

 

[jerreece]

Is this $42,000 the actual sentence? The prosecutor supposadly told the Judge the actual cost was "at least $47,000" to emergency services.

CNN and other news sites are also reporting that the dad was sentenced to 90 days in jail (some of which will be spent on work release).

 

[Ehsan w]

lol, that's pretty funny actually.

 

[Guest]

Excellent technology story.

 

[sliem]

@wasabi: wtf, he's innocent. You are messed up in the head.

 

[coldmast]

I think their going to have to amortize it over 42 years to get their tax(I'm Canadian)money back from these balloon parents.

 

[cybrcatter]

Fine.
Now let's never speak of this story again.

 

[brendano257]

Absolutely deserved, maybe $20,000 more for stupidity?

 

[omnimodis78]

[citation][nom]coldmast[/nom]I think their going to have to amortize it over 42 years to get their tax(I'm Canadian)money back from these balloon parents.[/citation]
What are you even trying to say? Dude did you take an evening accounting class and learned the word "amortize" and you were inclined to use it? What you wrote makes no sense at all. LMAO "...amortize it over 42 years..." HAHA you're a moron!

 

[mrcmark]

Just kill the boy.

douche

 

[sliem]

Yahoo! just reports the father gets jail time.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_balloon_boy

 

[sunflier]

Falcon Heene...must pay $42,000 because of the time and resources they wasted...

The news outlets should pay us the same for wasting our time of over-coverage.

 

[belardo]

LOL!

The easiest way for them to make money is off the event... and they can't make a dime or risk years of jail time!

Even if they got some sort of "show", and the adverts is "The Nutty family - the Balloon boy family!".

That kid is screwed for life.

20 years from now: "Hey! You're the balloon boy!"

 

[Parrdacc]

$42,0000 and jail time. I think that's fair. Poor kid though, always will be Balloon Boy.

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]brendano257[/nom]Absolutely deserved, maybe $20,000 more for stupidity?[/citation]
If I could sue people for stupidity I'd be THE richest person on earth.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]Shadow703793[/nom]If I could sue people for stupidity I'd be THE richest person on earth.[/citation]


if i could sue peopel for stupidity , i'dstart , by sueing teh fenderal goverment , then my state government then the local goverment and the sheriff's office. that woudl leave me more than rich enough that i could let all the other stupid people off the hook.

 

[cekasone]

i was expecting more.

 

[dark_lord69]

YAY!!!

 

[insider3]

42,000 of our tax money to bring a giant balloon down. Thank god it wasn't a blimp.