What is the Significance of the "Balloon Boy" Hoax?

In other words, why should we care about it?

It is just another of a series of events which help take people's minds off the reality of the mess our country is in.

Not only that, but the hoaxers are likely to get rich off of this, and in this day of fly-by-night "celebrity" fame, more and more people are pulling these stunts to get "rich."

If the Heenes committed a hoax and go to jail for it, what does it say about the media which capitalized on such an obviously phony event?

Not much.

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