So yah. Maybe I was the sap who fell for it. I believed that balloon boy probably was in the balloon, and that his parents didn’t know. I know it was a hoax when on Larry King Live, the little boy said, “You said, we were doing it for the show.”
Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said the charges against Richard and Mayumi Heene would include conspiracy, attempting to influence a public servant, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and false reporting to authorities.
Some of the most serious charges each carry a maximum sentence of six years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
In a news conference in Fort Collins, Colo., Alderden said he would ask the Federal Aviation Administration about further charges because the stunt endangered public transportation. There’s also the matter of restitution, he said, but the dollar amount for the resources used Thursday to chase down the balloon and search for the boy still must be calculated.
“We were manipulated by the family and the media were manipulated by the family,” Alderden said. He cracked up reporters by adding: “On the bizarre meter, this rates a 10.”
The father should have just built a rocket or something and sent himself up there, with an escape plan and everything. That way he’d have a show for sure, and he woudnt have had to make his kid lie on public television. Not to mention that his boy is going to have live with that forever. Everyone at school is going to call him balloon boy and shit. They’ll trip him on the playground, pull his hair in PE and tell him, “My daddy says your dad is a lying sack of shit who should never be trusted.”, etc.
Way to Go, Dad.
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Looks like a HUGE jiffy pop fell from the heavens and popped his ass!