Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Balloon boy parents get jail time, tough probation
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – The parents who carried out the balloon boy hoax were sentenced to jail Wednesday and given strict probation conditions that forbid them from earning any money from the spectacle for four years.
Richard Heene was sentenced to 90 days in jail, including 60 days of work release that will let him pursue his job as a construction contractor while serving his time. His wife, Mayumi, was sentenced to 20 days in jail.
This sentence sounds about right to me. It also includes paying restitution to the agencies that responded to the hoax. The bill could be up to $50,000. That probably does not include the costs because of the delays at Denver International Airport, where planes were delayed and diverted away from the balloon.
I happened to be home for lunch when the balloon finally came down and I watched live on the internet as they discovered that the little boy was not in the balloon. The whole thing was really scary and captivated the nation for the short time it played out.
Richard Heene was sentenced to 90 days in jail, including 60 days of work release that will let him pursue his job as a construction contractor while serving his time. His wife, Mayumi, was sentenced to 20 days in jail.
This sentence sounds about right to me. It also includes paying restitution to the agencies that responded to the hoax. The bill could be up to $50,000. That probably does not include the costs because of the delays at Denver International Airport, where planes were delayed and diverted away from the balloon.
I happened to be home for lunch when the balloon finally came down and I watched live on the internet as they discovered that the little boy was not in the balloon. The whole thing was really scary and captivated the nation for the short time it played out.
Labels: idiots, reality TV
# posted by Ingineer66 @ 12/23/2009 10:53:00 AM 
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I was reading something the other day about the frauds we have experienced. That family is certainly one. Tiger Woods, Madoff, and likely many others have managed to dupe people one way or another. I guess that's nothing new. I was glad they were penalized for what they did. It did draw a lot of people in with concern for that poor child who ended up being a poor child given what his parents had done to him by the lies.
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