And the punishment should be?

Mandatory volunteer service for the city/state every weekend @ minimum wage until the debt is paid off. Yes I realize this would take the rest of their lives.

Fines, weekend jail time and community service could be arranged for both parents. A schedule could be set up to prevent either parent from being in jail or doing service while the other was. No need to load the state with the burden of taking the kids away.

This, plus no profiting from their amplified public profile.

Wow, there was so many contradicting words in that first sentence...

Punish them as hard as they punished Rangel for tax evasion.  That will teach them!

I was going to say that a lien should be placed against any future profits that they do make from shows/talk show appearances etc, until every last expense that was incurred has been repaid.

WERE so many ... Vounteer/Community, same diff.

Everyone else got the point :eyeroll:

edit: whats contradictory about minumum wage?

Edited by ShawnFromNorfolk 2009-10-19 1:08 PM

haha. Were is correct.

Volunteer and pay in my eyes. I'm just teasing.

  Beat me to it.

I believe I heard the maximum punishment is six years in jail. Sounds good to me. Seriously.

As far as the kids, these parents seem unfit to me. Pressuring that kid to lie made him physically sick, and I think it would be horrible for him psychologically. I think foster parents may be the better option for those kids to get a good upbringing.

Put them in the balloon and let it float away

Death by Unga-Bunga.

lol....haven't heard that joke in years....it could happen if he gets the 6 years jail sentence.

Whatever else is involved, it needs to include this. Garnish wages too. They should absolutely pay for the resources they wasted.

nope. ARE is correct.

Perhaps I haven't been following this closely enough (good for me), but other than some local law enforcement time/resources, what should they have to pay back?  It lasted like 2 hrs right.

And in regards to the parents.  Can ANY parent say that they have never asked their kids to lie about something?  Was that a horrible horrible thing to not tell your sister about the Easter Bunny.  Guess what...it's a parent telling a kid to lie. 

Law enforcement for two hours, including aircraft, can be pretty pricey. I heard the field it landed in was damaged somehow, so I would think that owner has an ironclad civil suit.

Yes, many parents will tell children to lie. They are told to lie about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, to lie to get discounts for kids 4 and under, to lie about the food in Mommy's purse at the grocery store, to lie about Daddy's bag of powder under the floorboards, to lie about the bruises on their face and to lie about sending a lot of public safety personnel on a wild goose chase, reducing coverage for everyone else.

It is up to the courts and the state family welfare system to determine which lie is bad enough to determine if the parents are fit or not. In my mind, reducing fire and police coverage is incredibly dangerous, and should be treated as such.



Edited by eberulf 2009-10-20 2:55 PM

I agree. They're fame whores, so ignoring them would be the greatest punishment. Throw in remuneration and some community service and I'm satisfied.