CO - Richard & Mayumi Heene charged in Balloon Boy hoax, Fort Collins, 2009 - #1

[YellowDog]

I wouldn’t be surprised.
If you watched their very first interview they kids were all fidgety (sp?)
and then in all the others they looked so quiet and still. And then with the little one
getting sick…
Makes sense to me that they would give them something so they wouldn’t
make another slip up like Falcon did in the first video!
IMO

I agree. I think that's what might have made Falcon sick when they were being interviewed on the Today show. And on one of the TV appearances the child sitting next to the mother seemed to be falling asleep. It sure makes me wonder.

 

[jjenny]

It was a sheriff spokesperson, not a reporter-- I know HLN has shown her a number of times.

I'm going to be fishing for old footage on a number of points... lol.

Then I think the spokesperson wasn't correct. The sheriff himself even said during the press-conference that some of the things they told reporters turned out to be incorrect because they didn't wait to verify them.

 

[Linda7NJ]

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b14...m_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories

fun poll!

 

[kant]

Body language chick talks about Heene family.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/18/colorado.balloon.investigation/index.html?section=cnn_latest#cnnSTCVideo

 

[jjenny]

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b14...m_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories

fun poll!

They are missing one option:
Give him to octomom to raise:laugh:.

 

[scandi]

I wonder how many civil suits will be filed? The Heene's picked a lot of pockets with this fiasco, and not just tax payers.

Yes Quiche, like the farmer whose wheat crop was damaged with all the rescue vehicles driving out in it when the balloon came down. They might not have the wherewithall to settle a suit, but at least it would be of record against the Henee's.

 

[kant]

I don't think he would be charged for just coming up with plans, unless he was actually involved in carrying it out. Otherwise anyone who comes up with a plan for a movie or a show could be in danger if somebody carries it out.

Oh I agree with you. The reason I brought it up is I just heard some anchor on one of the news channels suggest that this dude had reason to worry, and I thought, why? He didn't do anything, and he may have actually helped nail them imo.

 

[YellowDog]

If that film being shown on TV of the balloon lifting into the air was the actual liftoff, it almost looked like the father could have grabbed part of it. Instead he was kicking the dirt as if it happened sooner than he was ready for it to happen.

 

[kant]

I really dont want to see them profit in any way from this farce.

MOO

 

[jjenny]

Oh I agree with you. The reason I brought it up is I just heard some anchor on one of the news channels suggest that this dude had reason to worry, and I thought, why? He didn't do anything, and he may have actually helped nail them imo.

Exactly. It sure doesn't sound like he was involved in carrying anything out, or even came up with exactly what happened. It appears he stopped working with balloon boy's father for quite some time.

 

[Patty G]

Sheriff's Press Conference
October 18, 2009

YouTube - Balloon Boy Publicity Stunt Part 1
YouTube - Balloon Boy Publicity Stunt Part 2
YouTube - Balloon Boy Publicity Stunt Part 3
YouTube - Balloon Boy Publicity Stunt Part 4
YouTube - Balloon Boy Publicity Stunt Part 5

 

[jjenny]

If that film being shown on TV of the balloon lifting into the air was the actual liftoff, it almost looked like the father could have grabbed part of it. Instead he was kicking the dirt as if it happened sooner than he was ready for it to happen.

I believe this was an actual lift off. But why would they want to grab it? If they grabbed the tether, they would not be able to later say the balloon escaped and the kid was in it.

 

[BuzzieCat]

Another thing I don't get - why would they want to only partially release it? What's the point, you either release it or you don't. Why do they seem to be claiming that they didn't mean to release it at all, only to have it "hover" ? I mean, apparently it didn't have any hovering ability in its own right, so what's the point of basically what sounds like loosening its ropes so that it stands up a little higher?

 

[kant]

Another thing I don't get - why would they want to only partially release it? What's the point, you either release it or you don't. Why do they seem to be claiming that they didn't mean to release it at all, only to have it "hover" ?

The whole thing blows, doesn't it? Also, why lie about when you called 911 or FAA or media? Did they not anticipate anyone disputing it such that phone records would ever be checked? This is one of many reasons I didn't want them to get away with it; b/c the next hoaxer to come down the pike would use this as an example and learn from their sloppiness and mistakes.

BLARG
.

 

[octobermoon]

Has this been posted?

Ex-Girlfriend of Balloon Boy’s Dad Talks About His ‘Lies…Antics…Violent Side’

http://www.breitbart.tv/ex-girlfriend-of-balloon-boys-dad-talks-about-his-lies-antics-violent-side/

 

[Elphaba]

Tinfoil, tarps, duct tape and string... a hoax in the making for 2 weeks. What a jerk...

 

[Muffet]

That was one meaty news conference! Lots to digest...

One or two things I wonder about-- is the "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" charge likely to stem from involving the children in the lie? Wouldn't there be three counts, if that is the case? Or-- was Falcon sedated somewhere? My guess is that Dad has some pretty powerful calming meds...

Also, as to whether Falcon was in the attic-- I'm really wondering about the neighbors house, personally. When the dude next door was being interviewed while the balloon was still in flight, I just couldn't take his blathering along-- ignored most of it! Did anyone actually listen to him, and what is your take on him, could he have been in cahoots? tia

Yes! He really is hinky, isn't he? He didn't seem as worried as he should, and might as well have been a paid pro PR rep with the way he was painting the family and Richard in particular.

He might just be in denial, but if he knows them as well as he seems to, he has a very strange idea of what makes for a "great guy" and "well-adjusted kids." :crazy:

Here's a video him and, I'm assuming, his wife, titled
"Heene Neighbor: 'Appalled' by Hoax Accusations" -
http://video.ap.org/?t=By Section/U.S.&p=&f=FLTAM&g=1016dv_balloon_neighbors

(It's followed by some of the sheriff's presser.)

 

[6angels]

That poor baby threw up on the interview. Wonder what the parents did or said to him to have him that upset. That baby did NOTHING wrong he was doing what his parents told him to do. I hope CPS does investigate IMO it is emoctional abuse having your children go along with this or asking them to.

 

[Linda7NJ]

http://franksfunnies.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/richard-heene-on-wife-swap/

It’s impossible to paint a true picture of Richard for you. I could tell you about the cocker spaniel he gave a purple mohawk in the 80s and pronounced a “Punker Spaniel.” I could tell you about the two books he’s published, The Herp-AIDS Detector/Deflector Kit and The Official Offensive Driving Handbook (designed and printed by yours truly).
I could tell you about how impressed my son Jimmy was when, at age 10, I took him to visit Richard in the abandoned house he was occupying. Jimmy was especially taken with the boarded-up windows and the Mickey Mouse cartoon graffiti on the interior walls. I could also tell you how Richard is convinced that he has found the secret of an anti-gravity device in the cyclonic action of tornadoes ([nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFRsxSJfjQ&feature=related"]watch this news report[/COLO"]YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.[/nomedia]).

 

[Muffet]

I don't know what makes me more angry: the hoax, risk, and expense he laid on the public, or the fact that he's raising these poor children to be obnoxious and lying hoodlums. :no: