Hi There

Hi, Internet. I come to you hoping to bring sanity, or insanity, to you, or just to voice my own opinion, doubtless one among millions. I will try not to hold back, and if it seems that I do, I urge you to provoke me as much as possible. An extreme voice is an audible voice.

Now, down to business.

I assume that you all have heard about Falcon Heene, AKA "Balloon Boy". Falcon had been assumed to have climbed into a UFO-shaped balloon, then flew across Colorado, pursued by helicopters and police cars. Later on, the boy was found in the attic, and let slip that his parents said the stunt was "for the TV show". Now, Richard Heene and Family are being faced with inevitable charges. Now, let me say something to Mr. Heene.

Thanks for ruining a good thing, jackass.

Here you have the biggest showing of unity in the US in a long time. Thousands of people watched for two hours as what they thought was a boy stuck over 7000 feet in the air. It attracted a lot of people, like 9/11 and Michael Jackson's funeral before it. It might not live up to it in importance, but it definitely gets up there, especially from the support shown for Falcon.

Not that any of these events were a good thing. What came out of it was a feeling of solidarity, of complete awareness for the other men and woman who were watching this with you, showing concern for a little boy that most of them hadn't met before. And you, Mr. Heene, ruined that.

Instead of unity, we see a man who did this as a publicity stunt. In a desperate grab for more than his share of fame, Mr. Heene decided to use a hoax to attract attention to himself, and a TV show that nobody even knows about. What sickens me the most is that when this show ever gets on the air, and notice I said "when" and not "if", it will get an insane amount of viewers, precisely because of this event. So thank you, Mr. Heene, for making me lose even more confidence in the average human.