Balloon Boy Admits Publicity Stunt On TV
Necole Bitchie.com — Earlier today, most of the nation watched as a helium balloon carrying what was believed to be a 6 year old boy floated across Colorado. The boy was believed to have climbed into the balloon shaped as a UFO in Denver and found himself floating below the clouds. His brother repeatedly lied to ...

Balloon Boy Confesses: "It Was For The Show"
Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton — How awful…..and what a waste of taxpayer money! P.S. His famewhoring parents have put the family on ABC's Wife Swap - TWICE!

Balloon Boy on Larry King Live
Oh No They Didn't! — youtube He says "We did this for a show" at 40 seconds

BALLOON BOY CONFESSES...
ZackTaylor.ca | Your #1 Source for Celebrity Gossip & Entertainment News — Balloon Boy has confessed that "it was for the show"!! WTF?! His famewhoring parents have put the family on ABC's Wife Swap twice and prob. planned all this to get free press!!

BUSTED: 6-year-old: “We Did This for the Show”
Sandra Rose — The 6-year-old boy who was found hiding in the attic of his garage appeared on CNN this evening with his parents and older brothers. The child was the focus of an intense hunt after his brother told authorities he was inside a homemade balloon that had been set adrift. Despite obvious clues that the balloon incident was a hoax, CNN, which trails Fox News in the ratings, still interviewed the family live on national TV. When asked if he heard his father calling his name, the boy answered, “yes,” which seemed to surprise his parents and brothers. He then told his father, “you said we did this for the show.” Realizing the ratings bonanza CNN had hoped for was a bust, Wolfe ...

Balloon Boy: "...We did this for the show." [VideUhOh]
Gawker — Well, all the naysayers seem to have been right . Little Falcon Heene , who will now forever be immortalized as the balloon boy who sparked a media sensation, appeared on Larry King tonight and spilled the beans : it was a ruse! [image] Speaking with Larry King stand-in Wolf Blitzer , an absolutely confused Falcon, explaining why he didn't come out of hiding when he heard his parents calling his name, blurted, "You guys said, that, um, we did this for the show." We assume he's referring to Wife Swap , a show upon which the family has appeared twice. His father's initial response to the apparent confession? A disgraced " man ." ...

Balloon Boy Hoax? Falcon Heene Outs Publicity Stunt? (”Larry King Live” VIDEO)
Pop Crunch — As Yeezy would say: Yo Balloon Boy, I’ma let you finish…But Anne Frank had the best attic hideout spot of all time! Um….Did Falcon Heene, the now infamous “kid in the runaway balloon,” just out his parents and admit that today’s national emergency was just one big publicity stunt? Falcon, who set off a massive search and rescue operation and media frenzy after it was reported he was inside a homemade helium balloon that broke loose and drifted for hours thousands of feet above Colorado was found safe in his attic late Thursday. The family — who appeared on ABC’s ...

VIDEO: Did Balloon Boy Pull Stunt for a Show?
TV Envy — I’m sure if CNN’s Wolf Blitzer had heard the response clearly, he wouldn’t have let the moment go. When asked why he didn’t come out of hiding when his name was called, Falcon Heene ...

‘Balloon Boy’ Falcon Heene Confirms Publicity Stunt - Video
Allie Is Wired! — If you were among the many people watching the news this afternoon with baited breath over Falcon Heene’s safety, then you were not alone. The six-year-old was said to be in the flying balloon contraption made by his father, which soared over 40 miles in Colorado, this afternoon. Yet, after the ...

Balloon Boy Busts Parents
Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Celebrity News | TMZ.com — Balloon Boy Busts Parents Posted Oct 15th 2009 10:30PM by TMZ Staff Falcon Heene and his family were just on Larry King Live -- where he suggested his family set up the entire "boy trapped in a flying balloon" story, saying "You guys said that we did this for the show." His father responded by saying "Man," his mom adding "No." Wolf Blitzer didn't hear what the boy said and moved on to the next question. The family appeared on the ABC show "Wife Swap" back in March.

Wolf Blitzer Catches The Balloon Boy Family in a Lie
Soup Cans — Like most people who were in front of their televisions this afternoon, we were glued to our set watching the runaway experimental helium balloon soar through the skies of eastern Colorado all the while assuming their was an Innocent 6-year old boy trapped inside a box attached to the machine. After the balloon landed in an empty field (funny enough CNN repeatedly said they would not air the impact of the balloon, but changed their minds once it was clear that it would descend gently to the ground) turns out the balloon was boy-less. So where was he? Turns out he was hiding in his parents' garage. People were immediately suspicious and even old reliable yellow ...

Balloon boy admits stunt was a hoax
Tabloid Prodigy — Hours after the nation watched–and was stunned–by the harrowing possibility that Falcon Henne, dubbed the balloon boy, was floating away in a makeshift hot air balloon–he was later found “hiding in the attic.” However, a follow up interview with the family on CNN suggests the stunt was a hoax. When asked if he heard anyone calling his name, the 6-year-old boy admits “We did this for the show” at :40 seconds into the clip. CAUGHT! Necole Bitchie points out someone farts at :45 seconds. Listen for it. ...

Balloon Boy, Falcon Henne, "You Said We Did This For The Show"
Wizbang — The moral of the story is don't let your six-year old be interviewed on live TV if you've not coached him in avoiding spilling the beans on the your publicity stunt... At least Wolf Blitzer did manage to ask a followup question ...

Balloon Boy HOAX! [VIDEO]
Celebrity Smack! Gossip & Entertainment Blog — Balloon Boy hoax exposed! The world watched intensely as an experimental balloon supposedly carrying a boy cruised for 60 miles in Colorado Thursday afternoon. The balloon was found, but the boy, quickly dubbed “balloon boy,” was not in it. Then we heard balloon boy had been found in the family’s attic in a cardboard box, hiding. Now things are getting really fishy. The boy, Falcon Heene, and his family appeared on Larry King Live Thursday night and if you had any sympathy for the family early on, it might just turn to disgust and anger after seeing this ...

Balloon Boy Totally Busts Parents Saying “You Guys Said We Did This For The Show” (Video)
Stupid Celebrities Gossip — Was 6 year-old Falcon’s “disappearance” in the homemade balloon just a hoax?  After Falcon was asked a question by Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s Larry King Live, he said his parents said they did it for the show. Hmm… Read more and see the  Heene family on Larry King Live in video below. People from all over were upset over the th6 year-old boy supposedly being carried away in a balloon craft and then was missing when the balloon landed. On CNN’s Larry King Live, Falcon said he was in the attic  while everyone was worried sick about him.  Falcon said, “I was in the attic, and ...

Balloon Boy admits parents’ publicity stunt
Tha Doghouse — It’s the story that ridiculously saturated the media today — a kid in Colorado was thought to be in a homemade balloon aircraft flying through the skies and in danger of falling out, but he was in the attic hiding in a box the entire time. But in an interview with ...

HOLY. SHIT. davidcho: Balloon Boy says: “We did this for the...
Aziz is Bored — > > HOLY. SHIT. davidcho: Balloon Boy says: “We did this for the show…” This kid’s dad looks insane, after this video goes viral on the internet, Balloon Boy is going to wish that he was in that balloon.

Fibbers
The High Definite — After all the media hoopla, the attention of the nation, becoming the target of internet memes for weeks to come, and ridiculous amounts of Wife Swap residual advertising, “Balloon Boy” Falcon Heene ends up doing the right thing and confessing it was all a dumb hoax, calling his insane parents out on live television…then busting ass on live television.  What a great ending to a retarded…retarded story.

Ballon Boy Hoax: Exposed
poponthepop.com — Falcon Heene, aka Balloon Boy, is the poor six year-old who was used as an attention-grabbing prop to satisfy his dysfunctional parents. The family has appeared on Wife Swap twice, and they've wasted no time giving interviews, naturally. CNN's Wolfe Blitzer asks the Heene family if Balloon Boy heard his parents calling his name while he was hiding and Falcon's dad asks his publicity magnet "Did you hear us calling your name at any time?" and Falcon replies, "Uh huh." Then Richard and his wife kind of freeze, and ask Falcon, "You did?" Falcon then confesses, "You guys said that we did this for the ...

‘Balloon Boy’ Fesses Up: Was For A Show!
Digital Cheeseburger — Digital Cheeseburger - your daily diet of irresistible unhealthy stuff is an entertainment post from: Digital Cheeseburger - covering Celebrity News, Hollywood Rumors, Celebrity Gossip, Celeb Opinion It took some doing to beat out the Gosselins ("Jon & Kate Plus 8") and the Lohans (Lindsay, Ali, Dina, Michael) to become America's Worst Family - and the Keene clowns did it in pitiful style! Following a day where emergency services and the National Guard were scrambled to chase a runaway Mylar ...

Balloon Boy Admits Hoax - 'We Did This for the Show' (Video)
Urlesque — Filed under: Videos, News / Politics, Busted!, HotYesterday evening, America breathed a collective sigh of relief as we learned that six-year-old Colorado resident, Falcon Heene -- aka Balloon Boy -- had not indeed plunged through the sky in a helium balloon contraption as had been previously reported. Instead, it was revealed that Falcon had been hiding in the family's attic in a box the whole time. Larry King Live nabbed an interview with the Heene family, in which Falcon may have let slip that it was all a stunt to promote the family's appearance on ABC reality show, 'Wife ...

Balloon Boy Hoax Major Publicity Stunt: Larry King Live VIDEO
Bumpshack.com — PHOTOS of FALCON HEENE & HEEN FAMILY The Balloon Boy drama that prompted a huge air rescue operation to save Falcon Heene, son of “Wife Swap” Richard and Mayumi Heene, was nothing but a hoax, a major publicity stunt. After the boy was found hiding in the attic at home, the Heene family was invited for a special appearance on ‘Larry King Live’ and that was when Falcon revealed he had been hiding because “we did this for the show” (watch video below). In an interview with CNN, ...

Balloon Boy Busts Parents
Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Celebrity News | TMZ.com — Balloon Boy Busts Parents Posted Oct 16th 2009 6:30AM by TMZ Staff Falcon Heene and his family were just on Larry King Live -- where he suggested his family set up the entire "boy trapped in a flying balloon" story, saying "You guys said that we did this for the show." His father responded by saying "Man," his mom adding "No." Wolf Blitzer didn't hear what the boy said and moved on to the next question. The family appeared on the ABC show "Wife Swap" back in March.

Balloon Boy: We Did It For The Show
ImNotObsessed.com — I watched the entire time the news was covering the search for 6-year-old Falcon Henne, aka "Balloon Boy". HOURS. We all know that he actually was just hidden in the garage today (THANK GOODNESS). Check out the interview that the family gave above. When asked why Falcon wouldn't come out of the garage, he said "You guys said that we did this for the show" The father just ignores the statement and continues to talk about other things. Did you hear that this family also took part in a 'Wife Swap' a few years back? Do you think they did this all for press? Or ...

Balloon Boy Is Sick Of This Shit (Literally)
Dlisted - Be Very Afraid — On Larry King last night (seeee beeeelow), Balloon Boy kind of let the publicity stunt out of the bag when he blurted out, "You said it was for a show" during the interview. CUE AWKWARD PAUSE! That's obviously not how they rehearsed it, because Balloon Boy's parents were at a lost for words. It's like when you take a hot piece home from the bar, and you rip off their chonies only to find that they've got a peen the size of button mushroom. You scream to yourself, "What the fuck am I supposed to do now?!" Well, that was basically the look on both ...

Balloon Boy Hoax Interrupts the Dame’s Workout, Snark Ensues
Hollywood Dame — I wasn’t going to address the “Balloon Boy” nuttery as children annoy me and as you may already know, I am not above making my neighborhood children cry for funsies. However, I felt I should air it out before Octomom starts sending her children up in balloons for fun and continues to abuse tax payers $. Some offspring of storm chasing, wife swapping parents had America busting out binoculars and lighting candles in a vigil for some brat floating around in a gigantic helium balloon. While working out (and by working out I mean hitting the juice bar while watching a man built like a baby ...

Balloon Boy: Was it All over a Show?
CelebChitChat — Yesterday a 6-year-old little boy made the news after he was rumored to have got inside an experimental weather balloon (hot air balloon) that his family made. This would’ve been nothing but according to an older brother when he got in, the wind picked up, unteethered it and floated away with him. There were various rumors that the boy was inside and another that he was never in it, later when it landed there was no boy. Worry about the boy falling out made some people search the ground. I worried that the boy could’ve fallen out before it started getting filmed by the news crews, others worried that while the National Guard and ...

Did “Balloon Boy’s” family set up the manhunt for publicity?
Cele|bitchy — Falcon Heene, a six year-old boy in Fort Collins, Colorado, was the subject of a massive manhunt yesterday when he went missing coincidentally right around the same time that his father, an amateur storm chaser, set off a huge weather-type helium balloon. It was thought that little Falcon was on the balloon, and footage of it flying was broadcast on CNN as rescuers scrambled to catch up with it and find the boy. When it landed the child wasn’t aboard. At first it was thought that he might have fallen off at some point, but he was eventually found hiding in a box in the family’s garage. The ...

Balloon Boy Tells The Truth and Admits It Was an Attention Whore Move For Reality Show!! “We Did It For The Show”
Bossip.com — Yesterday, there was a media frenzy when Richard Heene said he thought his son, 6-year old Falcon, had accidentally floated away in a “home made” hot air balloon. Falcon was not in the balloon and found later at the house: We got to thinking, as we watched the balloon boy and his brother’s rap ...

Balloon Boy basically admits it was a hoax
Guyism — stupid-ballon-boy-falcon-heene When a child is thought to be magically soaring through the air on a makeshift spaceship, it’s pretty safe to say that some mediocre parenting is afoot. Well, in an interview with Wolf Blitzer on Larry King Live, the kid, Falcon Heene, basically fesses up, saying “It was for the show.” Oops. So the popular theory floating around now is that this was all a publicity stunt and that Falcon’s dad, Richard Heene, is a crazy person who always left his kids in danger . Given that knowledge and the fact that, in the dad’s big moment, one kid revealed they did it for the show and another kid farted on camera, how many beating were doled ...

Busted
Crabbie's Hollywood — Balloon Boy Falcon Heene's mother and father wasted no time setting up an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. Only problem: dad forgot to drill little Falcon in what he was supposed to say. So, when daddy asked Falcon why he hid in the attic when he heard mommy and daddy calling, Falcon blurted out, "You said we did it for the show." Of course Wolf Blitzer, being the big-time journalist he isn't, didn't even bother pressing the question, but went on letting the asshole reality show jerk-off Heenes use him like a bitch. How does that bearded pile-of-shit sleep at night? Police ...

‘Balloon Boy’ Falcon Heene Snitches on CNN – Video
The Paparazzis — In the video below, CNN interviewed the Heene family, and you can see the father asking Falcon if he heard any of them calling his name. He replied, “Uh huh”, to which the father says, “You did? Why didn’t you come out?” Falcon tells the truth, saying, “You guys said that…we did this for the show.” His father tries to cover it up by asking again, “You didn’t come out?” but it was already too late. Falcon spilled the beans. Game over.

Balloon boy says "we did this for a show," vomits live on TV; dad says he's "appalled"
reality blurred — Jon and Kate Gosselin's kids now have competition for our sympathy from Falcon Heene, aka balloon boy, whose parents appeared twice on Wife Swap and now have been dragging him on various TV shows, where he seemed to confess that it was a hoax, and also repeatedly vomited. The family appeared for a very uncomfortable interview on CNN's Larry King Live last night. The kids practically had to be restrained to be on TV for the hour, squirming and running away during the breaks, but this morning, appearing on two live TV interviews even after his dad suggested that last night that they were done with the media, Falcon puked twice. The AP reports: ...

Balloon Boy Hoax? Falcon Heene Busts Parents
The Hollywood Gossip — Call us crazy, but before reporting our six-year-old was missing (or had up and floated away in a balloon), we might first look around our damn house. That seems like a logical way to make sure the little guy were really on the thing before reporting it and sparking an insane, expensive media frenzy. Immediately after Falcon Heene, a.k.a. Balloon Boy, turned up in the attic rather than inside a homemade balloon, rumors of a hoax began circulating. Possibly for good reason! Last night, Falc and family were on CNN, where he was asked why he didn't come out of hiding as parents searched for him ...

Ooops! Balloon Boy Says Parents Told Him It Was ‘For A Show’
Gossip Beast — Falcon-balloon-boy_1503186c The balloon boy saga gets weirder and more twisted. Yesterday, 6-year-old Falcon Keene, set off a nationally frenzy after it was believed a homemade helium balloon floated off with him inside. Turns out Falcon was never inside, but hiding in a cardboard box in his family’s attic above the garage. Weird and unusual circumstances, but a simple misunderstanding, right? Hell, no. It seems the parents are 12 kinds of crazy and may have plotted the whole thing. The first red flag came when it was revealed the family were on trashy reality show Wife Swap…twice. During an interview with CNN’s resident idiot Wolf Blitzer, Blitzer asks the Falcon ...

Awk-ward
The Blemish — Long story short, Falcon Heene, 6, from Fort Collins, Colorado, released a weather balloon and everyone though he was in it. They started this big manhunt to find the boy, but soon discovered he wasn’t on board after it landed. His parents later found that he was hiding in the garage. Falcon said he hid because he was scared his dad would yell at him. Although, others believe this is part of a publicity stunt. Considering the family has been on Wife Swap twice, that’s a reasonable assumption. Last night, Balloon Boy’s family appeared on Larry King. Falcon was asked to ...

OMG, "We Did This For the Show"
!! omg blog !! — I promise this will be the last you hear from me about Balloon Boy or whatever-- unless he escapes in another balloon-- but shit man, these people are really bad liars. (Via Gawker) ...

Whatever The 'Balloon Boy' Lesson Is, We've Apparently Already Forgotten It
NPR Blogs: Monkey See — We know a little more about what happened to Falcon Heene than we knew yesterday ... but not a lot more. (John Moore / Getty Images) by Linda Holmes Like a whole lot of other people, I watched for a while yesterday as the helium balloon in which a 6-year-old was supposedly flying ...

Falcon Heene Hoax: Balloon Boy Calls Out Parents! (Video)
Right Fashions — Now people are calling it the Falcon Heene hoax after a comment the 6-year-old boy made on CNN. But Was Falcon Heene’s family orchestrating a hoax? This unbelievable story has been snaking its way around twists and turns since it first broke. By now everyone is aware of the basics: a family feared that their 6-year-old boy was ...

Balloon Boy Busts His Parents
Crazy Days and Nights — The parents who were on the show Wife Swap twice have some explaining to do after their 6 year old balloon boy son said on Larry King last night, "You guys said we did this for the show." Ahh, six year old honesty. Now even if the parents were telling the truth and I am really starting to doubt it, no one will believe them. ...

A nation of attention whores
Salon — Oct. 16, 2009 | On last night’s season premiere of " 30 Rock ," a character uttered the soon-to-be immortal phrase “drunk on attention.” If indeed we can consider attention an intoxicant, we are right now in the midst of the mother of all spring breaks. In the last day alone, Meghan McCain flaunted her cleavage , Jon Gosselin was sued by TLC for breach of contract for his downright promiscuous media appearances, and "O.C" star Rachel Bilson tweeted her heartbreak . But most notably, the son of a former "Wife Swap" contestant went missing, bumped virtually every other news story out of the headlines, turned up in his attic and then said on ...

Kids Say The Darndest Things
Evil Beet Gossip — It’s possible that you were one of the hundreds of thousands of people who followed the unfolding saga yesterday of Balloon Boy.  It all started out when the media was reporting that a boy climbed into the basket of a hot air balloon, untethered it, and floated off into the sky. As facts were clarified, it ended up being a helium balloon.  I felt so bad for this drifting six year old until I saw that this aircraft was basically a package of Jiffy Pop floating around.  There is no way that something that equates to being a Mylar beret would be able to lift a first grader. Then it was ...

Kids Say The Darndest Things
Evil Beet Gossip — It’s possible that you were one of the hundreds of thousands of people who followed the unfolding saga yesterday of Balloon Boy.  It all started out when the media was reporting that a boy climbed into the basket of a hot air balloon, untethered it, and floated off into the sky. As facts were clarified, it ended up being a helium balloon.  I felt so bad for this drifting six year old until I saw that this aircraft was basically a package of Jiffy Pop floating around.  There is no way that something that equates to being a Mylar beret would be able to lift a first grader. Then it was ...

Balloon Boy Says Disappearance A Hoax, Then Pukes On Live TV
X17 Online — balloonboy.jpg Pic courtesy ABC The idea that Falcon Heene's family perpetuated a hoax in which the entire country believed the boy was stuck in a hot air balloon isn't the most nauseating thing to come out about this story -- this morning during a grueling round of interviews, the poor boy vomited live on camera! On Larry King, Falcon's father asked him whether or not he could hear his parents calling for him when they thought he had been carried away in the balloon (but he was really hidden away in the attic), and the boy responded, "You guys said 'We did this for the show.'" That temporarily silenced his father, who, after a second just said, "Man," while his mom said ...

Respect Mah Celebritah!
Elusive Lucidity —

BALLOON BOY: A HOAX?
MAD NEWS — For those of you who missed this strange story click here to read all about yesterday’s mad shenanigans involving a 6 year old boy and a home made hot-air balloon…. Now watch the video below. In my opinion the parents are damn liars. Your thoughts please….. Posted in Uncategorized ...

Balloon Boy Barfs On National Television Because They’re Lying
L.A. Rag Mag — balloon boy barfs After doing every national morning show the now infamous Ballon Boy puked from all the pressure ….which was awesome. We thought it couldn’t get any better. Then the family of fame whores decided to sit in the Larry King hot seat. Everything’s coming up roses, he’s alive, he’s on TV, and he said on Larry King Live “We Did It For The Show”! Wait…back up to :40 seconds after…did that little boy just admit the family set this up “for the show’? Police think so and are investigating the family AND the boy tomorrow according to TMZ . You gotta hand it to these inventive parents for using their children to appease their addiction ...

CHILDREN WON'T LIE, BALLOON BOY TOLD THE TRUTH
TINSEL GURUS — I've worked with kids, and they don't lie. You see, however much you bribe them with candies or money they don't understand the word LIE. So Balloon Boy , as everyone has labelled him became famous overnight when his dad sent out a massive search on his  young son, stating that he might be on a "invention-balloon" gone wrong. ...

Bitter Collaborator Says Balloon Boy A Hoax
Pop Culture Madness Blog Celebrity News and Gossip — Almost from the moment the balloon touched down in the Colorado countryside where a young six year old boy was thought to be inside but was not - speculators in the media have been looking to call the entire fiasco a hoax. The spin doctors are out in full force and media bias is everywhere. But on Saturday Gawker broke a story that a recent collaborator of Richard Heene (father of balloon boy) named Robert Thomas claims the entire incident was a hoax. In the article Thomas paints a picture of Heene being an egocentric celebrity hound that after appearing on ABC's wife swap, he would do anything to get back on TV again. Specifically in his ...

Charges to be Brought Against Balloon Boy's Family
Wizbang — Remember on Thursday how you were glued to the news, amazed by the simple shining silver balloon flying across landscape in Colorado? "Oh my God, is the boy inside?" "How did this happen?" "What will happen?" "Wait, who keeps a large, inflatable balloon in their backyard?" Well, it looks like Falcon Heene's family are looking at " misdemeanor charges ...

Balloon Boy really was for a show?
Seriously? OMG! WTF? — The Larimer County Sheriff held a press conference today saying that they believe that Balloon Boy really was a hoax. According to KDVR he said, “We have evidence to indicate (the Heenes) were marketing themselves for a reality television show in the future,” adding later on “Clearly, we were manipulated by the family and the media was manipulated by the family.” He also said that criminal charges will be filed against Richard and Mayumi Heene. No word if and when child services will step in. This is so sad, what this family has done for the ...

Experts: Media Spotlight And ‘Balloon Boy’
Right TV — Some experts wonder how the media spotlight could affect ‘Balloon Boy.’ Read the experts’ media spotlight, ‘Balloon Boy’ theories here. Could all of this exposure be deleterious to Falcon Heene? That’s what many are wondering, especially after he vomited on live national television while being interviewed. Was he actually sick, or ...

To the Surprise of No One … Balloon Boy Incident was a Hoax & Publicity Stunt … Heene Family facing Criminal Charges
Scared Monkeys — It’s official … “Balloon Boy” incident was a hoax. Sheriff anticipates criminal charges. Charges expected in Colorado balloon case. There may also be federal FAA charges as well. Richard and Mayumi Heene will not be winning any parent of the year awards anytime soon as they face many criminal charges in the near future including contributing to the delinquency of a minor. This probably comes as a surprise to no one as many had speculated why law enforcement had not stated as much sooner. As we stated early on in this story, we should have all known better when the ...

Mayumi Heene is Balloon Boy’s Mother
Right TV — Mayumi Heene is the mother of ‘Balloon Boy’ Falcon Heene. Curiosity about Mayumi Heene swelled after charges were filed in the alleged hoax, but who is she? Last week she called 911 to report that her 6-year-old son may be trapped in a huge experimental balloon that was on the loose in Colorado. National Guard helicopters pursued ...

Balloon Boy Gives Parents Away
Aisha — "Out Of The Mouths Of Babes" Again! "Balloon Boy Falcon Heene Admits: 'We Did This For The Show'" The nation has been riveted by the story of the young boy, Falcon Heene, thought to be trapped in a runaway balloon. Turns out he wasn't in the balloon, belonging to his parents, who are storm chasers, as he was in the attic of their home (like in the movie "Home Alone"). The family was interviewed on national television this morning, regarding the incident that sparked a search that incorporated many police officers and volunteers, when the young man let the cat out of the bag, live on air, branding it a publicity stunt via stating, "You had said we did this for the show." Oh ...

Charges Expected In Balloon Boy Case
Aisha — "Balloon Boy Falcon Heene Admits: 'We Did This For The Show'" According to press reports, charges are expected in the case of, Falcon Heene, the young man, apart of a family that set off a missing child search, usurping taxpayer time and resources, over what is now believed to be a hoax and publicity stunt for a reality show. Authorities are eying his parents for criminal charges. Criminal charges to be filed in case of balloon boy Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:32pm EDT - DENVER (Reuters) - Criminal charges will soon be filed in the case of a 6-year-old boy who spurred a frantic search for fear he was inside a wayward helium balloon, but who was later found safe at home, officials ...

Balloon Boy's Nutjob Dad Already Had a Theme Song
YesButNoButYes Stories — Well, it was bound to happen. Somebody was destined to take the mantle of "America's Most Hated Person" from the aptly named Spencer Pratt. It's an "NC State Beats Houston-Style" upset. Richard Heene, the architect of one of the most asinine plots in pop culture history, just wanted to be a television personality. A make believe character like Bill Nye The Science Guy or Glenn Beck. So he crafted The Great Balloon Boy Hoax of 2009. Thinking that after the dust settled and your 6-year-old wouldn't possibly spill the beans on CNN, network execs would just hand him a television show. Of course that is what would happen, Richie. Every ...