Breaking news: Balloon story IS a hoax (3 Felony charges expected) Now: wife battery

[C.Ann]

This is the latest on CNN now:



Full story at:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/18/colorado.balloon.investigation/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

 

[love2disney]

My only question why were the kids not in school? They did not look like they went to school that day!

 

[NHdisneylover]

My only question why were the kids not in school? They did not look like they went to school that day!

There was no school in their distrcit that day. I think it was for parent teacher conferences (my nieces in Lakewood, CO were out for conferences Thursday and Friday last week).

 

[starstruck93]

They are narcissists, probably borderline sociopaths.

ITA with this. My BA is in criminology and they definitely fit the bill for this.

 

[ChrisFL]

From what we're able to see, yeah, the family is pretty odd, and appears to have crossed the line - but, I don't see how they'll be able to prove it, unless someone admits it.
But lets face it, if the dad was looking for attention, this was the way to do it. The problem is, is we eat up all this reality TV crap. They'll never put "average" people on - that's boring. When a family has sextuplets and is given million dollar contracts to be on TV, you end up with Octo mom who took fertility drugs so she could have a bigger reality show. We've got Paris, the Kadashian family, the out of control children on the nanny and so on. We, as a society, are rewarding people for being the most outrageous. I'm not shocked.

Agreed 100%, I wonder if people will ever stop watching this garbage on TV

 

[Imzadi]

I was just flipping channels a little while ago. For the record, I never watch Geraldo Rivera. He says that there is a police report on file by the wife from back in MARCH. It is documented that she had a black eye from her husband.

I thought the wife seemed a bit cowed by that nutcase.

But, unfortunately, as with most domestic violence cases , the wife did not press charges. As such, with not even ONE charge of domestic violence on file, Child Protective Services cannot come in on behalf of the kids. They say there just currently is not enough proof the children are being abused or in danger.