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Raw;Heene Family Home Video Shows Balloon Takeoff
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Posted on 10/16/2009 12:41:51 PM PDT by coon2000

As the homemade balloon took to the air, Richard Heene blasts wife about tethering. • While world worried, 'balloon boy' was safe in attic http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7e7_1255709203


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KEYWORDS: balloon; balloonboy; falcon; falconheene; hoax; keene; publicitystunt; ufo
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To: coon2000; LucyT

They're Coming to Take Me Away - Heene Family


41 posted on 10/16/2009 3:59:11 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: coon2000

That was some of the worst acting I’ve seen in a long time. Reminds me of a scene from “Reno 911.”


42 posted on 10/16/2009 4:01:21 PM PDT by feralcat
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To: HamiltonJay

“If you haven’t figured it out by now Hannity is not the brightest bulb in the box. He parrots talking points ad nauseum and rarely offers any serious thought to any discussion.”

It’s like you can read my mind :)


43 posted on 10/16/2009 4:04:49 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3

You are right about CPS.

However - it may be a good idea to limit this family’s access to mylar and helium.
And maybe a few other things ought to be added to that list.


44 posted on 10/16/2009 4:07:11 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: PhiKapMom

Not sure of the validity of this but looks interesting..........


45 posted on 10/16/2009 4:12:05 PM PDT by deport
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To: NavyCanDo
Hannity should have googled it to confirm the information. He could have brought
an impressive insight that nobody else thought of into the story.
46 posted on 10/16/2009 4:17:08 PM PDT by MaxMax (Obama can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
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To: coon2000

This guy says he’s an amateur scientist. If that’s so, then he should have been able to calculate that there was no way in heck that his balloon would be able to lift off under the weight of a six-year-old kid. Not to mention that there appears that the balloon was designed with no opening at all that would be big enough to fit a human being.

Hoax, publicity stunt, screw-loose narcissistic idiocy. I have a feeling that when all is said and done, this guy’s going to be sorry he pulled this one.

Oh, and attention nutcases with kids named Falcon and would-be terrorists named Nutsiballah or whatever: Stop giving my otherwise great state a bad name! Go Broncos! :-)


47 posted on 10/16/2009 4:36:51 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: Jeff Chandler

He’s cussing the kid out because he let go if the tether, like a kid that age is responsible enough to do that.


This is what doesn’t make sense; how could the kid be responsible for releasing the ballon, while at the same time, climbing through the door in the basket to fly away...especially with his parents right there? How can they claim he was scared and hiding for releasing the ballon when there was never enough time for that to have happened—with them right next to the ballon.


48 posted on 10/16/2009 6:33:34 PM PDT by cwb (Liberalism is the opiate of the *sses.)
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To: Brown Deer

Obviously it was about a hoax since the child was found hiding in the garage. There is a difference in an accident and in physically abusing your children.


49 posted on 10/16/2009 8:02:25 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3 (Best thing about Cash for Clunkers is that 90% of the Obama bumper stickers are now off the road.)
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To: coon2000

Clear cut case of fraud and an INTENT to deceive!!!!

The dude is liable for something.

Must be tragic to live your life as a George Clooney wannabee...


50 posted on 10/16/2009 8:11:26 PM PDT by djf (Some people are proud. Some people are curious. I'm proud that I'm curious!!)
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To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3
Obviously, you didn't watch their family video at 40/41.
btw, mental abuse can be much severe than physical abuse.
51 posted on 10/16/2009 8:39:38 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: sanjoaquinvalley

I don’t know if prayer is ever wasted, but all those prayers from all over for that poor child’s life and safety — I hope they could be rerouted into prayers for him having to live in a dishonest family who pimped him out for attention.


52 posted on 10/16/2009 8:43:51 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Brown Deer

Holly Molly....


53 posted on 10/16/2009 8:54:19 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: coon2000
Rush commented today on how the MSM is demonizing this family and trying to destroy it without all the facts in.

Reading this thread, one can see how instantly effective the media can be when it sets its mass mind to something for the sake of drama.

Leni

54 posted on 10/16/2009 9:03:13 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Somewhere in Kenya, a Village is Missing Its Idiot!)
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To: Palladin

My thoughts.....He’s got some happy drugs going on there..The kind that makes his jaws and lips move, making him involuntarily speak gibberish...


55 posted on 10/16/2009 9:07:39 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: feralcat
That was some of the worst acting I’ve seen in a long time.

How can you say such a thing about Mayumi Iizuka?
or were you talking about Richard A. Heene in his bra?
56 posted on 10/16/2009 9:43:09 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: dragnet2
[PV] 飯塚雅弓 - ひまわり (Mayumi Iizuka - Himawari)
57 posted on 10/16/2009 9:57:04 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: trumandogz; Red Badger
Both parents knew? OF COURSE THEY KNEW! So should everyone in the vicinty! Anyone with sense who actually saw the balloon had to have known!

This little thing barely equals the massive clouds of helium ballons held on tethers by sellers at Disneyland. Looking at that video, it's plain as day to anyone with a lick of sense that the thing couldn't lift a chihuahua, much less a boy -- especially if there's any kind of battery power on board. It would be all it could do to lift a dozen D-cell batteries!

No, the parents shouldn't be fined. This is a valuable indictment against the MSM and officials who decided to pursue rescue efforts -- the media and the "rescue" morons should eat it because they were stupid enough to jump off the diving board without looking to see if there was water in the pool. I don't blame the parents for this one -- if anything, I thank them for illustrating so poignantly the abandonment of common sense on the part of the MSM and official law enforcement/rescue heads. I'll bet there were a lot of firemen and policemen with common sense who looked at that and just shook their heads at the assinine gullibility of their superiors.

58 posted on 10/17/2009 12:31:59 AM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
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To: coon2000

I hope these folks fade away quickly. I don’t need to hear about the Heenes every day like I have to hear about these Jon and Kate people.


59 posted on 10/17/2009 12:37:46 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: NavyCanDo
This is why Hannity has never impressed me. The guy has been to DisneyWorld a zillion times ... this video shows the scale of the balloon in question, and if it could lift a six-year-old kid high into the heavens, then all those kids working at Disneyworld carting around a few hundred helium-filled balloons to sell to guests would be "neutralizing" at 10 to 20 feet off the ground.

I swear, as far as I'm concerned, the father who pulled this stunt is an American hero for revealing gullability that goes beyond nonsensical. People WANTED to believe that the kid was in that thing. They wanted to indulge in the "real life" drama so badly that they blocked any effort of their own common sense to calmly assess the situation and see the truth -- that the joke was on American media, media watchers, and rescue officials who were as manipulated by the MSM as marionettes by a puppetmaster. This was so obvious that any money wasted on rescue efforts is squarely the responsibility of the doofs who authorized it.

60 posted on 10/17/2009 12:40:16 AM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
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