Wasted Carbon

Here’s the latest scoop on the Balloon Boy saga.

It now sounds as though charges are eminent in the Richard Heene hot air balloon fiasco.  It didn’t take long for me to realize that I’d been had, but the cops seemed to have taken a bit longer to come to that conclusion.  You can’t blame them though, this is a very serious case and the police need to have all the evidence they require to bring charges.

Richard Heene and his balloon  totally interfered with my mid-day television schedule.  How the hell would I, or anyone else, be able to enjoy their regular programming schedule under such high-stress, dramatic conditions?  I was not able to watch Myth Busters or How It’s Made or any of my usual geeky shows.  I was not able to doze off either.  How could I?  In my mind, there was a six-year-old boy cruising around the sky in a silver bubble.  I think we all need to revisit those circumstances too…

Rules are rules.  What’s to say that little Falcon and his dad weren’t actually operatives for Al-Queda?  In hindsight, the Air Force should have sent up a couple of F16’s to obliterate the potential threat of an unresponsive aircraft heading towards a major metropolitan area.  Falcon’s wings should have been clipped.  But, that is no longer the issue at hand.

Today, I am talking about the penalty for such a shameful hoax.  It is impossible to measure the magnitude of the cumulative embarrassment, stress, and hurt-pride that Richard Heene has caused worldwide.  I’m not even going to mention the long-term effects of the off-the-cuff dialogue the world was subjected to by numerous on-air reporters who really had nothing to say, but continued talking for nearly two hours anyway.

If Richard Heene is found guilty of perpitrating this horrible hoax, I feel that the state should seek no less than the death penalty.  This is America.  Who does he think he is?