Gee Judy ! I bet we could get the gang together and have a show!
Posted on 10/15/2009 9:00:26 PM PDT by americanophile
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The 6-year-old Colorado boy thought to have floated off in a homemade balloon has raised questions whether it might have been a family stunt.
During a live interview on CNN, Falcon Heene said he heard his family calling his name as he hid in the rafters of their garage. At the time, there was a frantic effort to bring down the balloon safely.
Falcon's father asked, "Why didn't you come out?" The boy answered, "You had said we did this for a show."
After the CNN interview, the father said he didn't know what his son meant. The boys' parents have appeared twice in the ABC reality show "Wife Swap." The show promoted the Heene family as storm chasers who also "devote their time to scientific experiments that include looking for extraterrestrials and building a research-gathering flying saucer to send into the eye of the storm."
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Then they deserve to get a bill.
I’m not sure it’s clear what Falcon meant, but I do think some further questioning is definitely in order here.
That’s awful.
Naming one’s kid “Falcon” is prima facie evidence of having a screw loose.
Cute little fella though, glad nothing happened to him.
By what the media was reporting it seemed the parents weren’t acting like concerned parents, I may be wrong and probably am, but still something doesn’t seem right.
They did do some further questioning and the father clammed up and ended the interview because he was "appalled"!
This was a hoax! They need to get a warrant and then drag the kids in and question them outside the presence of their parents.
Apparently these clowns didn't call 911, they called the media when they claimed their son was carried away in the balloon. That should tell you something.
Explains the interest in flight though...
Why does the movie “The Mosquito Coast” come to mind?
Filled with helium, it would only be able to carry a payload of five pounds, maybe.
To carry a fifty pound kid it would have had to be much, much larger. So large that the neighbors would have complained about it being in the back yard.
Well - the kid could be exposing something - or he could be embarrassing the hell out of his parents.
Tough to tell - kids will say the darndest things at the worst moments and make you want to crawl under a rock.
I remember my son going up to a woman with a thick mustache and saying “are you a lady or a guy?”
I'm just sayin'..
How big would a helium balloon have to be....
...to carry Michelle Obama?
Was that the movie when that I believe Australian hooked up to a bunch of helium balloons in a aluminum lawn chair and traveled for miles? I caught a movie one night late and it was amusing!
How can you say that? On the videos of the first interview after he was found, the dad and mom choked up several times and clutched Falcon even tighter than they were already holding him! There definitely WAS concern in their voices and actions there—or else these people are the best actors on the planet!
A lot of Hot Air!
i was a single father. brought my date (now wife) inside to meet my 4 kids. the 6 yr old immediately asked her “did my dad get frisky?”
I would love to see Sheriff Joe deal with them!
They didn’t call 911? But, called the media instead? If so, that is a really odd way to handle a crisis of this nature.
During the coverage from one of the local stations, the anchor mentioned that the parents had called them directly asking for their helicopter to track and find the balloon.
It seems like a strange place to call, even after calling the cops.
lol, that’s funny.
Of the few times I've seen the show, I actually saw that episode. The father is a real whack job, and RUDE to boot. One of the rudest people I've ever seen.
Apparently he knew what the family was doing!
This is the craziest family, as evidenced from their YouTube video and appearance on Wife Swap. I did not see the program, but someone else here posted the video and it is disgustingly strange.
I hope they are well charged and fined for all the services that had to swing into action to look for this child. They sure caused a lot of people stress and anguish, but...apparently, no concern for that from the parents.
Of course, I hope the local townspeople run them out of town on a rail, too...or send them in a balloon over the Rockies, sans the little boys. Poor little fellows,stuck with such idiotic parents.
OMG how funny you said that. I said the same thing earlier after reading about the family. Only the kids in Mosquito Coast were nice kids. I saw their You Tube video, not so nice. I think the parents suck.
No one knows; they’ve never been able to build one that large.
oh my! That’s a good one!
Don’t ever let him forget it.
Jimmy Kimmel just showed a clip of this dad in a scene on wifeswap where he loses it with the swapped wife.
The guy came off as a complete loon.
Oh!
And Kimmel also said this dad approached him a few years ago and asked him for $25,000 in exchange for painting his name on a rocket that he’d blast into space.
Yep, and I don’t think that Apache helicopter will be cheap.
Remember how choked up Susan Smith was when she was calling for help to find the guy who kidnapped her kids --- after she had drowned them in a lake?
Don't be such a sucker. This was a staged event.
I think it was a hoax. The father knew no one could get inside of that thing because it was sealed to good. They should be sent the bill and charged for whatever they can find to charge them with. If your kid is missing you search the house from top to bottom. 100% hoax.
No, I knew right off the bat Susan Smith was a phony as I watched her crocodile tears...something about this interview today rang true to my mother’s hearing—I can see from their backgrounds though why it’s easy to believe they might be trying to get free publicity!
No, this was the movie where Harrison Ford plays a whacked inventor who packs his family off to middle-of-nowhere Africa.
Oh didn’t see that one. Sounds interesting!
My friend Laurie would say that the boy needed a “correction” for pulling a stunt like that....just as she has told me she would have corrected ME for some of the dangerous or foolhardy stunts I was involved in, when I was younger—had she known me at the time, some involving fireworks, gunpowder, dangerous chemicals, abandoned buildings, pumpkins, etc.
You know, the cops said THEY searched the house and the neighbors’, and Falcon’s friends’ homes and couldn’t find him—how did a sleeping 6 y/o kid in a box in the attic escape the notice of professionals?!
I said from what I heard from Shep Smtih (not the most reliable or honest person to get new from)
With or without the boob belt?
Well was it a lady?
Guilty!
I spot liars for a living, and these people were as transparent as glass.
your post reminds me of those 3 or 4 boys who were missing and the cops searched the house and the local area.
Turns out the kids were in the trunk of the car - and they all died.
How many professionals walked by that car during those precious hours?
What do you do for a living?
I’m an insurance defense attorney. I’m paid to be skeptical.
I can't wait for the handcuffs to be placed on these two.
I’m not sure if they called the media first. I was asking if they had because a previous post had stated this. (Didn’t want to mislead you if it wasn’t true).
Gee Judy ! I bet we could get the gang together and have a show!
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