Publicity Stunts Going Too Far?

In Colorado a family built a balloon type hover craft and told everyone that their son had accidentally fallen into the craft and been in it while it was flying around. This whole incident was broadcasted live on the news and thousands of people were watching in fear as this balloon flew through the air while thinking that a boy was trapped inside. Police and even the National Guard had to be called to help catch this runaway balloon.

It turns out that when they got to the balloon there was no boy inside. The family then said that the boy was hiding in the attic of the garage the whole time. The next day the family was on Larry King Live and were being interviewed about the situation when the little boy who was supposedly trapped inside the balloon slipped up on a question. The interviewer asked the little boy if he heard anyone calling his name while he was in the attic and he said yes and then was asked why he didn't come out of the attic and he replied, "We did it for the show."

The parents had planned out the entire thing because they wanted to try and land a reality T.V. show. They wanted it to seem like they thought he was in the balloon and then was miraculously fine because he was hiding in the attic. The parents allegedly paid a news team to be on the scene as it was happening. The parents are likely to face jail time for lying to basically the whole country.

How far will people go to try and become famous? Now that we all have seen and heard about this stunt, do you think we will see more phonies in the future trying to get some spotlight? I think most definitely we will see more stunts now because there are a lot of dumb people out there that probably think that if these people are a little bit famous for this then maybe if they do something dumb they will become famous. A good example of this would be when the MTV show Jackass first came out, tons of people were trying to create there own versions of Jackass. C'mon we all can admit to making at least one Jackass video.