GUILTY CO - Richard & Mayumi Heene charged in Balloon Boy Hoax, Fort Collins, 2009 - #2

[Melanie]

In Florida your "homestead" is protected against judgements and fines except, for IRS. It's no wonder they moved there.

Look at OJ.

MOO

Mel

 

[Steely Dan]

'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."...

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/ar...alloon-boy-sale-of-balloon.html#ixzz1O6EnfO9O

They recently found out about the Japanese Tsunami?

 

[bessie]

Maybe the news travels to them by balloon. :floorlaugh:

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Four years on Balloon Boy, now aged 10, finally set to take off in 'world's youngest heavy metal band' with his brothers

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-heavy-metal-band-brothers.html#ixzz2WqzSX8A4

 

[mister happy]

^^What are they trying to float now? lol

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-five-years-promote-childrens-metal-band.html

Balloon boy's parents still insist it was not a hoax five years on as they promote their children's metal band

 

[popsicle]

'We have gotten so busy with the kids that we can now earn a living having the kids go out and perform,' Mr Heene said. 'That's our main focus.'

I think down the road, one or more of these boys will be writing a tell all book. jmo

 

[mister happy]

'We have gotten so busy with the kids that we can now earn a living having the kids go out and perform,' Mr Heene said. 'That's our main focus.'

I think down the road, one or more of these boys will be writing a tell all book. jmo

I was thinking the same. Somethin' just ain't right behind the scenes of the Heenes.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Get ready for Balloon Boy: The Musical after boy, 16, writes award-winning show based on the infamous hoax that made international headlines

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-infamous-hoax-international-headlines.html

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Balloon boy parents pardoned 11 years after conning world with hoax crisis

 

[they'll get you]

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.

Parents who claimed their son 'floated away in a balloon' are pardoned