I’ve heard, and told, my share of shaggy dog stories, but I haven’t seen one this obvious in the news since that boy in Colorado with the weather balloon. The one where, as it turned out, his idiot parents faked their son’s accidental and uncontrolled flight in a saucer-shaped bag borne upward to the stratosphere by hot air and greed. It was all over the news for a week or so… sad and surreal, in the final analysis.
I’m pretty sure this one will turn out to be much the same.