Balloon boy says "We did it for a show."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI6UONWCq7A ^

[machogirl]

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

[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?

[Rutles4Ever]

"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!"

[UCANSEE2]

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.

[machogirl]

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.

[Richard Kimball]

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.

[Richard Kimball]

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

[steve86]

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

[Richard Kimball]

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.

[SouthTexas]

Way too many!

[boatbums]

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.

[WestCoastGal]

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 ???

[reagan_fanatic]

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.

[Impy]

LOL Busted

[Brown Deer]

They're Coming to Take Me Away - Heene Family

[machogirl]

What did he do in NO except “flyover”?

[Brown Deer]

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.