Holy Crap!

[Mystic03]

they ****ing gutted that balloon like it was alien equipment.

lmao

 

[Sonic_GT]

Oh man, I hope the parents get reamed for this!

 

[CoreyHM1]

you should be watching CNN right now, LOL. They're caught now.

 

[lokslikasolstic]

I KNEW it was a publicity stunt! As soon as I heard the parents had been on Wife Swap, I just KNEW they were doing something to get back their 15 minutes of fame. :nonono:

 

[jshen]

baloon doesnt look big enough to lift even an infant, even if its filled with helium.

Experts are calculating that there wasn't enough lift to pick up the kid. They're pretty much sure of it.

That may be a very good point. Ever catch the Mythbusters episode where they used ballons to try to support a small child. It was a crapload of balloons.

It was all a hoax set up by no other than the parents themselves......................
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I agree- not enough helium to lift that kid...and parents needs to be charged and pay costs associated with this hoax..

 

[FL-Orange]

Colo. sheriff calls balloon saga a hoax - NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida

Colo. sheriff calls balloon saga a hoax
Posted: Oct 18, 2009 8:56 AM EDT
Updated: Oct 18, 2009 1:22 PM EDT
FORT COLLINS: A sheriff said he was pursuing criminal charges in Colorado's "balloon boy" saga, which he described Sunday as a hoax to generate publicity for a reality TV show.

Deputies searched the home of the boy's parents Saturday night, carrying away several boxes and a computer.

"Needless to say they put on a very good show for us," said Sheriff Jim Alderden in a news conference Sunday.

He said the first clues of the hoax came during the family's interview by Wolf Blitzer on CNN Thursday night.

The young boy said "you said we did this for a show" when asked why he didn't come out of his hiding place.

Falcon got sick during two separate TV interviews Friday when asked again why he hid.

The boy's parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, met with Larimer County investigators for much of Saturday afternoon amid lingering questions about whether he perpetrated a publicity stunt when his 6-year-old son Falcon vanished into the rafters of his garage while the world thought he was zooming through the sky in a flying saucer-like helium balloon.

Alderden didn't say who would be charged or what the charges would be.

His deputies later showed up at the Heene's Fort Collins home with a search warrant and at least three of them began a search. Sgt. Ian Stewart declined so say what they were after.

Alderden expressed disappointment that he couldn't level more serious charges in the incident, which sent police and the military scrambling to save young Falcon Heene as millions of worried television viewers watched.

"We were looking at Class 3 misdemeanor, which hardly seems serious enough given the circumstances," Alderden said. "We are talking to the district attorney, federal officials to see if perhaps there aren't additional federal charges that are appropriate in this circumstance."

Suspicion that the balloon saga was a hoax arose almost immediately after Falcon was found hiding in a cardboard box. Heene, a storm chaser and inventor whose family has appeared on the reality show "Wife Swap," and his wife had said one of the boy's older brothers had said Falcon was aboard the homemade balloon when it took off.

After the sheriff spoke to reporters, Richard Heene and his wife walked out of his office after meeting with officials for several hours.

As reporters yelled questions, all Heene said was, "I was talking to the sheriff's department just now." He then walked to his car with his wife and a friend, and they drove away.

It wasn't clear where the family was late Saturday night. By 9 p.m., an AP reporter at the family home said the couple hadn't returned after leaving the sheriff's office.

Their three sons were believed to have been at home being watched by sheriff's officials earlier in the day, but their whereabouts also weren't known to reporters in the evening.

The day began with Richard Heene knocking on the windows of journalists camped outside his home and promising a "big announcement." A few hours later, he did an about-face when he told reporters that they should leave questions in a cardboard box on the front doorstep.

As Heene walked away, a reporter shouted, "Can you tell us once and for all if this is a hoax?"

"Absolutely no hoax. I want your questions in the box," Heene said, waving a cardboard container before going back into his home.

A circus-like atmosphere formed outside, including men holding signs and occasionally yelling "balloon boy." One sign read, "Put balloon boy on TV: America's Most Wanted."

Other gawkers carried aluminum-foil stovetop popcorn makers that resembled the a flying saucer-like helium balloon launched from the family's backyard Thursday, with 6-year-old Falcon Heene believed to be onboard.

For those guys who called it, congrats.

 

[SIr RicCuS]

Colo. sheriff calls balloon saga a hoax - NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida



For those guys who called it, congrats.

As soon as it was apparent that the kids parents were the Wife Swap reality show couple, it was almost expected.