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Ok..was the Boy in the Ballon a hoax? For TV time?
Posted by JamieLay • 10/15/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: boy, headlines, news
You think this was legit..a accident OR did the fame whoring parents set it up?
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Damn you balloon boy attention whoring parents!!! -
fame whoring parents + a bunch of idiots = big story
Mythbusters has already shown it would take an insane amount of balloons to lift a kid-
Well, when presented with the possibility that your 6-y old son has gone flying away on a helium balloon one tends to forget that Mythbusters has actually disproved said possibility. -
not me, that was my first though. which is why I didnt read the articles about or follow it in any way
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Mythbusters used to be a good show..until they added those 3-scripted-annoying-stooges. So I quit watching it.
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if you would have watched it you would have known that it was a hoax
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I actually saw that episode of Mythbusters, because I happened to be at my parents' house the night it was on and my father was watching it, and thought of it today...but it meant nothing to me in terms of this balloon because I knew nothing about the comparative amounts of helium or weights of the children involved.
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Bastards! I need a refund for my sympathy!
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I need a little fame..can you make me a balloon? I will pay you in sympathy!
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This reminds me of the story, "Ickle Me Pickle Me Tickle Me Too Went on a ride in a flying shoe" by Shel Silverstein.
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Bubble Boy is real, there's video of him!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ns7kXLj7co&feature=related-
I thought this was Bubble Boy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5a9ge8LKb4 -
No, he's in a cult!! This is another bubble boy, he is shy though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOcFdS_ALMw -
Why didn't these movies ruin his career..lord help us all!!
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He had the financial backing of a cult, he couldn't fail, L. Ron Hubbard wouldn't allow it.
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Maybe I am just jealous because I never though of the Balloon Boy rise to fame ideas. DOH!
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JamieLay , gosh I've missed ya-
HOLY MEATLOAF!!!!! MY KAT!!
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Am I the only one who was like damn, they found him alive in the attic? How freaking boring is that? Why couldn't they have found him in the top of a tree over the lion exhibit at Denver zoo, clinging to a branch, crying for his mommy??-
Your meds must be effecting your little black heart...tuning it a soft pink or pale gray. NOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well I was going to say clinging to a floating branch in the alligator exhibit, but that would just be gruesome now wouldn't it?
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Good then..you are coming around!
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offendedblogger, that's just plain sick. I was hoping he'd be found to have been abducted by aliens from the planet Quewiounk, who used him to satisfy the sexual desires that had built up over their long space voyage.
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Gotta say, these people's bios as reality TV whores does make it look awfully fishing...-
The dad seems like a alien himself
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The little boy was on the Wolf Blizter show and said "You guys said that we did this for the show," so, yes I think it was a hoax. I was really concerned about the little guy, so I think it was
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Fishy...very fishy
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apparently there was no boy in any balloon - he was in the attic
www.kansascity.com/105/story/1511407.html -
"it was all for the show"
perezhilton.com/2009-10-15-balloon-boy-confesses-it-was-for-the-show
these people are nutjobs!-
and so are we watching it
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yes, probably the wacko parents wanted more publicity or just the fucking kid was playing everyone. -
No worse than a McDonalds commercial. Selling an idea is alot harder than hamburgers and cheap toys. -
Poor kids has to lie..then ends up puking on live air.
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I feel sorry for the kid.
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Hoax, publicity, whatever, the most important thing to know is that the boy is safe.-
Not if he stays with his freak parents!
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Doll, I am NOT the father...Take it back!
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Sorry but I SAW that episode of Maury!
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Those tests they use are only 99.3% accurate
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that's good enough for me~
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I'm clinging to my .07%
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Looks like dad had been trying to get a reality show:
www.tmz.com/2009/10/16/heene-familly-balloon-boy-richard-heene-reality-show... -
I'm watching an update on it now, and they say it was a prank by the boys. The boy was never in the balloon and hid in the garage, while the parents were under the impression that he was in the balloon. -
I think Dad knew that balloon could not lift the weight a six year old boy and float off- it looks like it's made out of mylar.
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That's the conclusion the news report came to. Not mine.
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Kid didn't want to get into trouble. Frightened because he let the balloon go flying. Dad had already yelled (warning) to him earlier and child was determined to push the envelope. In the meantime, his Dad and Mom are freaking out and the rest of the horror filled story takes life. Now the kid is really scared he's gonna get it so he hunkers down inside his safety box. Apparently there was a box attached,which fell off later, that the boy would have fit into. By the size of the balloon, (I am using common sense judgement here) looks like it would easily carry a tiny boy up, up and away. The Dad looked sickened after two hours of not knowing whether something he built took his son and perhaps he would never see him again. They said the Mother was distraught. And when the police, camera crews, neighbors and everyone else showed up, the child was by this time, assured of a butt whooping. All this excitement and angst might have made him believe that with the cameras, lights and crews, that it seemed familiar, like when he and his brothers were on the Wife Swapping show. He could have even drifted off to sleep and when he woke up he wanted to use the bathroom and get something to drink. Perhaps he emerged from his hiding place only to realize he was still in trouble ... or so he thought. His Dad was trying not to cry when he was holding him and clung to him like he couldn't believe his good fortune. So, no, I do not believe it was for media or press or a hoax.
A lot of people, including myself, said heartfelt prayers for his safety. I am very relieved he is safe. He is after all, only six years old.
He couldn't fake the anxiety or the throwing up on live camera. -
Here is Mom and Dad accidentally 'releasing' the balloon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QDzPjjoq8Y&feature=player_embedded
Bad acting all around.-
What idiots.
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Not the smartest peanuts in the turd!!
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If it was a hoax then they will be charged for the use of that giant Black Hawk helicoptor...those things aren't free -
I am watching CNN right now and Anderson Cooper says it sounds fishy, and I believe every word that comes out of that Hottie's mouth so it MUST be the truth
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why would the silver fox lie???
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(whispers)
AC is gay. Cough.
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I LOVE Wife Swap!-
do you remember this one?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3mDLsyn6ns
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I love Anderson Cooper , and no Doll my Andy is would never lie!!!
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See my commentary above.
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Ahhh..my gay silver fox *blush*
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"Before the fame-seeking backyard scientist Richard Heene phoned the police to report that his 6-year-old son, Falcon, had floated away on a homemade flying saucer Thursday morning, he called a local TV station and asked them to send a news helicopter."
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It sounds more like what Teresa111 said..
I have 3 six year old grandchildren.. and believe me that sounds exactly like something that they would do.. Hide cuz they knew they would be in trouble for messing with it. Honestly doesn't anyone know what a normal child acts like anymore?
Kids are kids. The parents should have had it under some kinda guard, but at least the kid is okay.. The parents probably just aged 10 years because of that kids shenanigans.
In a few years... they will be laughing about it.. But for now I am sure they are trying to figure out how they are gonna pay the rescue squads, fines, and they will now have to deal with child services.. etc.. -
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I think your avatar clown is freaking me out. Now when I go to sleep, I am going to be wigged out and quaking in my PJ's. Couldn't you get a smiley one? But not like the one in the storm drain, the Stephen King movie. I do not like to walk close to storm drains any longer.
I saw the interview on the TV and I still think the kid did this without the parents knowing. Any reasonable adult would quickly understand to pull something like this would cost a ton of money that they do not look like they have. I won't eat my hat if I am incorrect, I am simply going with my instincts.
When I was tiny I was always getting into scrapes and I would hide in order to hold off the inevitable. Once I ran away with my fifth grade girlfriend, but only because I did not want her to go off to Ohio from Maryland all by herself. But when we got back home the next morning, a neighbor spotted us, we found that the whole place had been searching for us. Then I lied and told the policeman that we were driven around all night by a man who would not let us out of his car. And then I said the reason I left was because my elderly aunt was being harsh and restrictive. Oh Boy! I still kick myself in the drawers for that whopper. Good kids do dumb things.
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what waas sorry was the interview on the T oday show and the bot throwing up in the plastic container.. that was so fake... for show -
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A sheriff said he was pursuing criminal charges in Colorado's "balloon boy" saga, which first sparked fear for the child, then relief that he was OK and now suspicions of a hoax.
Deputies searched the home of the boy's parents Saturday night, carrying away several boxes and a computer.
The 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.
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www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20091018/US.Balloon.Boy/ -
yep just saw that too bad~
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"It has been determined that this is a hoax, that it was a publicity stunt,” the Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said at a news conference..."
Richard Heene and his wife Mayumi have not yet been arrested, but the sheriff said that among the charges being considered are three felonies: conspiracy between the husband and the wife to commit a crime, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and an attempt to influence a public servant., the last of which carries a prison term of six years. The charges could also include a misdemeanor, filing a false report.
www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/us/19balloon.html-
I feel sorry for their kids. I hope their grandparents aren't as crazy as the parents.
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The parents got what was coming to them for being so stupid.
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trailofpen,
Good point: those kids are going to have a tough time for the next several decades.
(I've put together links to some news on this mess, with my observations, at apatheticlemming.blogspot.com/2009/10/hoax-balloon-boy-falcon-heenes-okay-h... )(I know: shameless self-promotion. Rather tasteless in this context, I suppose.) -
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