Boy Floats Away In Balloon

Mayumi Heene will begin her sentence after her husband's to ensure their children are still cared for.
She will be allowed to report to jail on two days a week, return home at night, and serve the sentence through jail-supervised community service.

This doesn't sound like "jail" to me but sounds like a good idea.

Heene later attempted, unsuccessfully, to run from police, claiming it was some sort of restless leg episode.

This guy just won't stop:

The Colorado father who admitted to staging the balloon hoax now says he genuinely believed his son was in danger but pleaded guilty to prevent his wife's deportation.

Richard Heene, an aspiring reality television star who has said he is descended from space aliens, told CNN's "Larry King Live" in an interview airing Friday that he believed 6-year-old Falcon was in a homemade balloon that took off from the family's Fort Collins backyard Oct. 15.

"We had searched the house, high and low," Heene said in the new interview with Larry King. "I knew he was in the craft. . . . In my mind, there was no other place."

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In the new interview, Heene said he took the plea bargain solely to protect his wife, who could have been deported to her native Japan if convicted of a felony. She was allowed to plead to making a false report, a misdemeanor, and sentenced to 20 days in jail.

"I'm not disputing the fact that I did have to plead guilty, and when I say have to, I had to do it to save my family and my wife," Heene said.

Calls to the Larimer County district attorney's office, which handled the prosecution, were not returned Wednesday night.

Prosecutors conceivably could ask the judge to revoke Heene's guilty plea and force him to stand trial.

"It's not in the prosecutors' interests to let a guy go around telling the media he was coerced into pleading guilty," said Jean Rosenbluth, a former federal prosecutor and USC law professor. "On the other hand, this particular guy has perhaps low credibility."

This doesn't sound like "jail" to me but sounds like a good idea.

pretty sure these kids are better off with anybody other than the parents in this case tbh.

I love how one of the earlier links says he is "an aspiring reality television show actor". Surely that is not something you want to own up to or aspire to!?

well, he got his wish.

http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20100520/NEWS01/5200378/Sheriff-s-staff-use-blog-to-mock-Heenes-after-balloon-retrieval

kid is dead.

― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:46 PM

as in, really. he fell out.

― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:46 PM

rip

Balloon, Boy, The Internet

this was SOME moment

Ahhh this whole story, hours-long coverage on CNN and this thread were what greeted me to my new life in America. (And kind of contributed to my decision to not bother getting TV over here)

Wise decision.

http://s2.buzzfeed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2009/10/16/13/enhanced-buzz-10866-1255713457-4.jpg

but when he opened up the pizza box...there was nothing inside but hot air

GUYS

WIFE SWAP

That is all.

good god bigsausagepizza.com has gotten even worse

You've been tracking it fondly since its start?

http://s2.buzzfeed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2009/10/16/13/enhanced-buzz-10866-1255713457-4.jpg

ONE YEAR

"dont talk to me, i havent had my coffee"

We all seem older and wiser somehow. I mean except possibly BBoy and his fame seeking parents.

R.I.P. hopes

& dreams & stuff

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lab9qm07uE1qa5iceo1_500.jpg

but the wolf still is at large

Still waiting for a doberman to harvest that kid's dad's kidney.

Still trying, I see:

http://www.latimes.com/features/odd-news/kdvr-bear-back-heene-txt,0,1383587.story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v53OCICVqio

Patent Pending

A brilliant new scheme.

uh

what a schemer

As seen in the promotional video above, Heene's conviction and jail stint for faking his son Falcon's ascent has not imacted his ability — first showcased on "Wife Swap" — to make strangers question his sanity.

I know this is pretty much par for the course with internet content everywhere anymore, but is it really that difficult to do even the mose basic editing on news stories?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gZ18TgcVF2w/R9k2V8I_jjI/AAAAAAAABhg/Z48oQTX8eGc/s400/Mose+II.JPG

mose basic editing?

Update!

Another Update!

(family moved to Florida. Balloon Boy now plays bass in a metal band with his brothers)

I was just about to a link to this with extra "CURSE YOU NED RAGGETT" content because it's his fault I listened to this

Hi there!

Dear God, did we learn nothing from Old Skull or the Death Kids?

Guys. I met Falcon last night. At the Morbid Angel show.

he handed me this

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/636/z6jf.jpg

so they're apparently still doing the metal band thing. I listened to a few tracks and...Richard Heene should get 4 life sentences.

!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAMSmasXUfw

Heene Boyz on Spotify btw

I saw them again not too long after at a metal show. the dad looked like a smug asshole, but the kids were genuinely into the show and were having a good time, which was nice to see. really hate how he's still whoring them out tho.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/03/11/mxp-what-happened-to-balloon-boy.hln.html

brrr what happened to that balloon boy

yeah see people always talk about how the internet can aggregate information and keep people amazingly aware of breaking news, but I could just as easily look at the end of this thread and conclude that a werewolf child parachuted out of Kanye West's balloon

This is one of my favorite posts of all time

balloon boy on bass guitar (w/ his 2 brothers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc1bGHaTO14