Burst the Balloon

I have delved into popular culture more than is typical on this forum recently and more than I would like, but I can not resist commenting on the balloon incident in Colorado yesterday. Either the parents are self-indulgent, face-time seeking, desperately negligent fools, or the fiasco was deliberately staged to get them fifteen more minutes of fame after the reality show cameras had departed as they had already appeared on the Wife Swap program on network TV. Either way, criminal charges could eventuate as lives were jeopardized and at least thousands of dollars of public money were squandered on an unnecessary rescue attempt.