6 yearl old boy floats away in homemade balloon aircraft

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The whole thing was a hoax to get publicity. The family is trying to get their own reality/sci fi show. They have already been on 2 episodes of Wife Swap. The kids behavior of the kids on the shows was horrible. Their dad let them cuss out the new moms on both shows. The kids have a vile music video on youtube. I'm not shocked to hear that charge may be filed on them.
Denver International Airport had to redirect flights because of this hoax.

I hope the parents go to jail, because any parent like that can't honestly bode any good for the children. Shameful on these parents using their children as "bait", in this whole publicity-grab. Unfortunately throughout this whole ordeal, they got exactly what they wanted, they got more publicity and attention than they probably anticipated. I was not at all surprised about this being a hoax at all, for the record. Plus, when the kid said that it was a stunt for TV on the television, the idiot dad's face silently yelled that he and his hoax family and their "grief" was just that, a hoax.

It looks like the father will be charged with making a false police report and disrupting air travel. Is it just me, or does it look like that balloon would be impossible for anyone to hid in? Why would anyone believe someone was inside in the first place? It looks sealed, like the kind of mylar balloon you would buy at the store only bigger and there's all that helium inside. It's hard to believe anyone would think a child could float around in it.