The media wasted 3 hrs of time today, because a child lied..what should happen...

I am pretty disgusted at the fact that a sibling of someone who designed a flotation devise in a back yard encompassed the news for three hours today...The fact that we watched and waited for the demise or death of a 6 year old child as parents of our own children had us heart struck for over three hours is horrific.

The children (the two older ones) or the one that reported the youngest child in this so called balloon...which was filled with Helium ( my question is why was this filled and waiting to go into the air without a parent around or filled with Helium, period.  And, why weren't these children supervised while around this so called, " weather hot air balloon? "

The whole world was sitting and hoping this 6 year old who supposedly was in this balloon was sitting, watching and waiting to see if he was safe and in fact alive on landing.  I, myself probably wasted my 3 hours of work aghast at the site.   Losing $750.00 is not funny.

The other 2 children who supposedly were ready to record this on video...should be punished.  The parents who allowed these young children access to this "mushroom type balloon" should also be punished.

The kid is in the "attic" and no one could find him within 20 minutes or one hour of the "so called balloon being launched" is ridiculous.

The cost incurred by law enforcement officers is also ridiculous and should be a fine to the parents. Why, because if you are devising something like this, your young children should not know how to untie it and to be accessible to it at all...Your children look like they are all under 12...sir...you are responsible for the time by helicopters, law enforcement, and whoever else was helping to look for your 6 year old...while he was in your attic in a box.  My question to you is...how did he get into the attic and if you knew he could get into the attic, why didn't you look there for him and save all the cost incurred, when the medics, police, and specialists were called in to help you.

Were you trying to get attention for your product?  Did you have anything to do with this situation?  After all rumor has it, your children were on the roof video taping the whole situation...and they are visually young.

Mr. and Mrs. Parent...yes, you took over the news all over America for 3 hours...tell me...where were you when your children were playing with your experiment?  And, why did your older sons say your 6 year old was in the basket...and what fell from the balloon?

What do the rest of you think?