The "balloon boy's" parents... What is the limit to free publicity?

Dien, I think it has more to do with setting limits. A stunt is a stunt...except when it costs other, innocent, people their time and money. When you're usurping needed search and rescue personnel, costing air traffic controllers, pilots, and airlines time and fuel costs and risking the lives of others who may have not received the appropriate amount of attention to their emergency due to the usurpation of the authorities and rescuers resources on a hoax, it's long past time limits were set, and realistic punishments enacted, for those who do not use good sense and want publicity at any price.

That's my feeling about it and some other stunts I've heard about over the years. As the saying goes: your right to swing your arm stops at the end of my nose. So, too, with publicity stunts.

Sandi Bowman