irresponsibility at its very, very best

everyone wasted a pretty decent amount of time today wondering about the 6-year-old kid (Falcon Heene) stuck in a homemade hot air balloon, only to find that he was actually hiding in a box in the attic the whole time. Well, i’ll be damned.

it was clear that something wasn’t right:

• the stint they did on the show “Wife Swap”
• the Heene boys’ music video
• Daddy Heene saying on “Wife Swap” that he likes to let kids be kids
• the fact that they had to get publicity for this homemade balloon SOMEhow
• CNN claimed that the boy might not have been Falcon, but in fact Falcon’s brother, Ryo – but MSNBC didn’t seem to catch that info
• no one could seem to tell authorities or the news what the kid was wearing that day
• the only witness to this boy crawling into the balloon was his brother who (unless they were putting on airs for “Wife Swap”) is just as big of an undisciplined dick as Falcon
• the balloon became magically untethered from the house

…so suspicions were understandably on the rise when the balloon (crafted by a family with a clear penchant for attention) finally landed and was found to be kidless.

yet even though the whole situation had more than a few flaws, many wanted to believe that no one would go THAT far out of their way for a bit of shine. Do assholes that huge even exist?

apparently, they do.

the kid was in a box in the attic the whole time.

NOW is it time to discipline your kids, Mom and Pop Heene? Don’t get me wrong – even the strictest parents have hellraisers as children, but if this family hadn’t shown the entire nation exactly how out of control their kids are, perhaps so many people wouldn’t be so angry about them taking up valuable airtime, police time, government time (choppers were sent out!), and everyone’s time in general. Especially while kids everywhere are being legitimately raped and killed and abducted, and no one’s all that concerned because – gasp – there’s a kid in a balloon!

If only it didn’t take situations like this to make parents realize that a few rules and regulations will NOT destroy a child – they will be the best path to preventing him/her from becoming the cheeky, self-righteous, spoiled fucks these kids have proved themselves to be on more than one occasion.

UPDATE: the best part about kids is that they have absolutely no filter. Therefore, when you keep your dirty laundry around your children, the chances that they’ll let the wrong information slip is very great.  So when asked if he heard his parents calling him while he was hiding in the attic, naturally the kid would get confused and say to the father….

“we did this for the show.”

fucking motherfuckers. Watch how Dad has that “godDAMMIT” moment, then talks about absolute nonsense for 30 seconds, almost as if he really believes it’s going to make everyone forget that his own son just dimed him out.