'Balloon boy' parents to sell balloon
by Robert Moore - Jun. 1, 2011 10:51 AM
Fort Collins (Colo.) Coloradoan
...The former Fort Collins residents who moved their family to Florida last year, put out a video last week saying they were auctioning off the balloon to raise money for Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief, according to the celebrity website TMZ.com.
And they even have a suggested winning bid -- $1 million.
"Recently we went on the Internet and we saw that over 18,000 people had perished over in Japan because of that tsunami," Richard Heene said in the video posted on TMZ.com. "Well, we thought, how could we help out? We can't with our hands, but we have something that we think could help. What we want to do is put the flying saucer that we had built ... up for auction for charity."...
Eleven years later, couple has now “paid the price in the eyes of the public” and shouldn’t have to be dragged down by a criminal record for the rest of their lives, Colorado Governor Jared Polis said in a statement Wednesday.
“We are all ready to move past the spectacle from a decade ago,” said Polis, a first-term Democrat.
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