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BBQ Barn opens location near USCA
11/20/2009 9:36 PM
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Insulation business to begin work Dec. 3
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Officials meet to discuss parks at NERP workshop
11/20/2009 9:37 PM
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Whiskey Road project still a go, with modifications
11/20/2009 9:35 PM
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11/20/2009 9:24 PM
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Man held in Warrenville murder
11/20/2009 9:04 PM
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Salvation Army begins drive
11/20/2009 9:04 PM
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Sheriff Hunt is named Clearwater fire chief
11/20/2009 9:04 PM
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Aiken High inducts students into National Technical Honor Society
11/20/2009 5:26 PM
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Police nab final Aiken drive-by suspect
11/20/2009 5:26 PM
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Woman knits 200 caps for charity
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ACSO investigating suspicious death
11/20/2009 8:21 AM
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Unprofessional behavior plagues SRS
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Atlantic keeps families in touch
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Commission shoots down zoning for 'sporting park'
11/19/2009 5:25 PM
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Aiken-raised author brings up topic of race
11/19/2009 4:26 PM
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National parks delegates meeting in Aiken
11/19/2009 4:26 PM
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Havoc comes to enchanted land in educator's 22nd production
11/19/2009 4:26 PM
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Columnist offers CSRA read
11/19/2009 3:45 PM
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Course teaches officers how to better detect drunken drivers
11/19/2009 4:27 PM
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Couple to sign books on South
11/19/2009 3:45 PM
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Horse clinic to address shots, saddles, more
11/19/2009 3:44 PM
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Seniors get crash course in politics
11/19/2009 3:44 PM
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N.A. officer arrested, suspended
11/18/2009 6:27 PM
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SPCA brings Santa in for pet pictures
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Give some reality to family of hoax
10/20/2009 12:34 AM
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It didn't sound right from the outset. A boy climbing into a homemade balloon and sailing off into the skies? When the child was found at home after the balloon landed and it was reported the family had been on a reality TV show, the suspicions grew.
Now the sheriff in Colorado who was called in the case is pursuing charges against the parents.
Reality TV has never been something I have been impressed with. Whether it is people on a faraway island, loudmouths in a house trying to live together, people eating bugs or families exchanging parents, those shows are not my cup of TV.
It is just preposterous that a family might come up with a scheme that puts others at risk (two helicopters were dispatched and a major airport changed some planes to a different runway) for the sake of publicity and the hope of getting a reality show of their own.
If that turns out to be the case, those responsible should be prosecuted to the fullest of the Colorado and federal law. Now that is reality.
10/20/2009 12:34 AM
3 comment(s) on this story E-mail this story to a friendIt didn't sound right from the outset. A boy climbing into a homemade balloon and sailing off into the skies? When the child was found at home after the balloon landed and it was reported the family had been on a reality TV show, the suspicions grew.
Now the sheriff in Colorado who was called in the case is pursuing charges against the parents.
Reality TV has never been something I have been impressed with. Whether it is people on a faraway island, loudmouths in a house trying to live together, people eating bugs or families exchanging parents, those shows are not my cup of TV.
It is just preposterous that a family might come up with a scheme that puts others at risk (two helicopters were dispatched and a major airport changed some planes to a different runway) for the sake of publicity and the hope of getting a reality show of their own.
If that turns out to be the case, those responsible should be prosecuted to the fullest of the Colorado and federal law. Now that is reality.
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3 comment(s) on this story : 10/20/2009
This family should be forced into community service to help pay for all the resources they squandered.
RE: family of hoax : 10/20/2009
ENOUGH! I have heard enough about this nitwit family for awhile.
: 10/19/2009
As long as there is an audience for reality shows, they will continue. They are cheap to produce and have millions of fans. If you don't like it, do as I do, change the channel.
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