...shoulda gone with the 'Jiffy Pop' defense. :o)
Posted on 10/23/2009 4:53:28 PM PDT by Cardhu
DENVER — The mother of the 6-year-old boy once feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon admitted the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents released Friday.
Mayumi Heene told sheriff's deputies that she and her husband Richard "knew all along that Falcon was hiding in the residence" in Fort Collins, according to an affidavit used to get a search warrant for the home.
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Sounds like revisionist damage-control from the Sheriff to me... "I knew it all along, I just pretended I was dumb." Uh, yeah.
Their actions during that time period were consistent with what he said. I really doubt the Sheriff is a moron, and it was apparently pretty obvious to everyone who saw the first media interview that the parents were lying and the kids were nervous and confused about what they were supposed to say.
It does seems that she and the children should be in some sort of safe house right now. Here are the remarks of a prior collaborator:
...Barbara Slusser, a friend and fellow storm chaser, said she stopped collaborating with Mr Heane because he kept bringing his young children on expeditions, even one into the eye of Hurricane Gustav.
She said he had an “explosive” personality, once trying to stuff toilet paper down her throat during an argument.
Mr Heene said on Sunday the saga has become “convoluted”.
...shoulda gone with the 'Jiffy Pop' defense. :o)
Sorry, but I know lots of cops and NONE of them are good guys. I am NOT friends with any of them and wouldn’t trust anything any of them said, even under oath.
That said, the cops are right about this fruitcake family.
How did they expect it to end? They had to know the balloon would be followed to the ground, what was step two?
Step 1 - Fake boy in balloon story
Step 2 -
Step 3 - Profit.
What? I don’t “hope they get the help they need”. The parents aren’t sick. The dad’s a sociopath, not a victim. And the network was in it from the inception and should be threatened with loss of its broadcast license.
Reid. The Senate has voted to bail them out.
Pure South Park. They out South Parked South Park.
And by that I mean South Park is going to have a hard time parodying this. It’s already got all the elements of parody in reality.
They are here to disrupt and trivialize and divert.
awesome!
Their problem may be that they’ve run into more than a few who aren’t good guys. Cops are like any other group of humans. People use the same excuse not to go to church. They say folks there are “hypocrits”. They’re right...about a lot of them. Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t go to church, add to the “non hypocrit” population there. Same with cops. They lie, cheat, steal, and abuse their power....some of them. Doesn’t mean we don’t need good “men” to be cops (quotes for PC). One thing’s for sure, we have plenty of cops. And here in TN, they’re very poorly trained. That’s a shame, because they don’t know how to drive (or safely make traffic stops), which sets a bad example for our young’ns, and it gets them killed regularly. Poor training is a real disservice to cops and their families, more than it is to us civvies.
Mental problems my foot! These two need to be slapped around for a good five minutes and have some sense knocked into them! It’d save the taxpayers a load a time and money.
Dude, you’ve got issues. Where would any of us be without the ‘’thin blue line’’? Two of my cousins are police officers and I’m proud of them.
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Dude, you’ve got issues. Where would any of us be without the ‘’thin blue line’’? Two of my cousins are police officers and I’m proud of them.
I don’t really know what he was doing, but I know it got my attention when he said soon after the event that they were very convinced from the family’s behavior (later thought to be acting) that it was not a hoax. At the time I said to myself, “Why doesn’t he just shut up and describe it as an ongoing investigation?”
So he is either stupid or clever, lol.
These two idiots are damned lucky that no one was killed or injured trying to rescue a phantom passenger from that balloon.
No way are the liberals going to bail out these two. Remember their stunt cost BamaKennedy's townhall meeting in New Orleans, to be without 'L I V E' camera, lights, and action using a 4th grader for some 'reality tv' asking BamaKennedy 'why does everybody hate you?' stunt....
No, these people hogggged the 'air' in more ways than just a lost 6 year old in a fly away hot air balloon.
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