I want to speak about this from a personal perspective, all the other stuff aside.
I happened to catch that story just before I was about to leave my home and got sucked into it. Not because it was sensational, or exciting, or a
REALITY stint...but because I believed a poor little six year-old boy was trapped in that balloon and might at any minute loose his life. I was not
excited by it, but horrified. I was almost in tears when it crashed (note; they turned the camera off at that point so as not to show the moment when
the boy potentialy was killed). I am a mother and to watch that unfold was terrible.
That this man intentionally put ME through that really *isses me off! What right did he have to make thousands of people hold their breath in horror
at the possiblity that they were watching his SON DIE IN FRONT OF THEM. That is beyond sick...it is twisted and demented and he is not fit to be a
father.
NOW...let's talk about the responders. I happen to be an emergency responder. I will tell you that there were probably several people out their
putting thier lives at risk in order to try and safely bring that balloon down. From the helicopter pilot to the people on the ground....
What about that man who ran through the uneven dirt toward the balloon as it came down? He could have easily hurt himself...FOR NOTHING. How
emotional do you think the people that initially went up to that balloon expecting to find a dead little boy were? How much do you think the whole
experience cost them emotionally?
NO...what this man did does not equall exposing how bad our media is. It exposes a sick individual who used HIS CHILD to emotionally toy and harm
literally thousands of people at the same time. That he did this intentionally.....put people at the risk of physical and emotional harm ON PURPOSE
in inexcusable!!!!!!!!
