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Balloon boy says "We did it for a show."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI6UONWCq7A ^

Posted on 10/15/2009 7:38:22 PM PDT by Hilda

He just said to his parents on Wolf Blitzer “You guys said we did it for a show.” Wolf didn’t seem to notice. Video at the link.


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KEYWORDS: balloon; balloonboy; falconheene; hoax
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3

Thanks. Makes it more intriguing. The dad looks to me like a bad actor, weird, or both.


81 posted on 10/15/2009 9:09:38 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: machogirl

so now i suppose this guy is going to submit his low altitude hover vehicle to ALGORE? and get a GREEN JOB out of it?


82 posted on 10/15/2009 9:11:29 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: mamelukesabre
"That could mean anything. Picture it this way...dad finds the little brat hiding. Then confronts the older kid for saying his brother was on the balloon. They just do the usual little kid crap and say “i don’t know”.

Then dad says “you guys will do anything for a show!”

Um... then why didn't Dad explain it that way when he was asked by Blitzer? Seriously, the first words out of my mouth would have been, "grounded until you're 21!" not a chummy, "aw, you crazy kids'll do anything for a show!"

83 posted on 10/15/2009 9:13:08 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna!)
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3

And, he actually noticed, and followed up, in the original interview. Those on this thread who are saying he didn’t, must not have had access to the full video.


84 posted on 10/15/2009 9:14:50 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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does anyone know what dad does for a living?

i’m watching some of the interview on cnn now, and dad looks like IMHO he’s trying to act “emotion”. just looks that way to me. the whole story is strange. it’s a family invention, not finished, yet the kids (young) go up on the roof with a video camera and tape it flying off and mom and dad don’t know that the kids are releasing it? somethings amiss and if it was a hoax and they make money off of stupid interviews with tabloid trash, i hope they get some charges filed against them. if it wasn’t a hoax, IMHO, dad is weird.


85 posted on 10/15/2009 9:17:42 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: boatbums
They should be billed for the trouble they caused.

There's a good chance they will be. Emergency services generally don't bill for things like car wrecks, etc., but it's fairly common to bill people for stuff like the guys that climb part way up buildings and get stuck.

With this thing running over a hundred miles and planes in pursuit and multiple jurisdictions involved, they may get a bill for over a hundred K.

86 posted on 10/15/2009 9:19:42 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: steve86

I shot a guy off a toilet with an 1 3/4” fire hose once. Does that count?


87 posted on 10/15/2009 9:20:34 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Richard Kimball

You’re saying the guy didn’t have a prayer? :)


88 posted on 10/15/2009 9:22:53 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: mamelukesabre
I don’t get it. How do the parents profit from making their kids pretend to be on a weather balloon?

It's a kind of a weird thing, now. You can get publicity by being talented, infamous, or weird. Talent is tough. Being infamous, like Lee Harvey Oswald, can get you killed. Being weird is a lot easier than putting in the hard work to be good at something. Look at Octomom, Paris Hilton, Jon and Kate, and numerous others. Anna Nicole Smith made a bundle off being a train wreck in her reality TV show. The Farrah Fawcett series was a bomb because Farrah Fawcett was fairly intelligent and people didn't tune in to see what idiocy she would commit on camera.

Welcome to the monkey house.

89 posted on 10/15/2009 9:26:00 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: tubebender

Way too many!


90 posted on 10/15/2009 9:29:09 PM PDT by SouthTexas (The IOC is racist!)
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To: Richard Kimball

I know...hubby’s retired IAFF. He says people could be billed after a certain number of false alarms. I hope any $$ these clowns make on this gets fined right back out. Y’all risk enough for the real stuff..the faked stuff should bite back hard.


91 posted on 10/15/2009 10:06:01 PM PDT by boatbums (Pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life!)
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To: tubebender

How convenient they had a camera rolling when this thing took off.

And they were counting, 3..2..1

WTH & kid said he did it for the show ???


92 posted on 10/16/2009 5:37:32 AM PDT by WestCoastGal
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3
Wow. That clip is really revealing. Notice how Wolf asked the Father to ask the kid what he meant by 'we did it for the show', and after a few moments of awkward stuttering and delaying the Dad then avoids asking the question by attacking Wolf.

Guilty. Guilty as sin.


93 posted on 10/16/2009 5:51:56 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy

LOL Busted


94 posted on 10/16/2009 6:28:44 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
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To: Hilda

They're Coming to Take Me Away - Heene Family


95 posted on 10/16/2009 4:54:03 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Just mythoughts

What did he do in NO except “flyover”?


96 posted on 10/17/2009 6:54:57 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: Blogger
In an exclusive interview, the Gawker states that Robert Thomas spent several months earlier this year working on developing a reality science TV show to pitch to networks — the "show," Thomas says, that Falcon was referring to when he told CNN "We did it for the show." Among the ideas that Heene, Thomas and two others came up with for their reality TV proposal — and one that he says most intrigued Heene — involved a weather balloon modified to look like a UFO which they would launch in an attempt to drum up media interest in both the Heene family and the series he was desperate to get on the air. Still, Thomas never imagined that Heene would involve his six-year-old son in what he is certain was a "global media hoax" to further Richard Heene's own celebrity.
97 posted on 10/17/2009 6:58:31 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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