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The story of the Colorado boy floating away in a balloon Friday was a hoax concocted by his parents to help land a reality-TV deal, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden alleged Sunday. Parents Richard and Mayumi Heene are likely to face felony charges over the incident, which temporarily shut down Denver International Airport and caused the National Guard to scramble two helicopters in an attempt to rescue the boy.

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The Parents should get 10 Years in Prison and one hefty fine. Rotten bastards.

Larry

Larry,

"The Parents should get 10 Years in Prison and one hefty fine."

Do you really mean, "10 years" or are you stating you think their crime is significant?

I've been reading posts here and you seem to be first in line at the tar and feather club a lot of the time.

I agree calling 911 and wasting valuable resources like they did is wrong and I'd go so far to say a month or two in jail might wake them up, but 10 years....damn!

"you seem to be first in line at the tar and feather club a lot of the time."

It's a big club on Drudge.

Meh - send them for a balloon ride they'll never forget!

Hey BillJohnson read this and then tell Me those slimeball Parents don't deserve 10 Years in Prison.

www.tmz.com

Larry,

ok...read it.

and...why do they deserve 10 years?

Why should the children be denied their parents for the next 10 years?

Like it or not, this man and woman are parents to young people who love and need them.

Granted, some retribution is in order, but locking up the parents for 10 years would be a knee jerk reaction.

Sorry Bill Johnson they deserve 10 Years. Oh and as far as their kids go they have relatives I am sure who could raise them for that 10 Years. I guess You don't believe in punishment. 2 MONTHS AIN'T SHIT dude.

Larry

Larry,

"You don't believe in punishment"

Sure...I do.

I seem you recall you wanted to put the fake veteran in prison 10 years too.

Isn't a 2 year charade where probably 10's of thousands of dollars were stolen worse than what this couple did?

This couple definately made a foolish mistake and will regret this the rest of their lives.

I don't think the family should be broken up by this. If they really staged a hoax, the Heenes should be forced to pay for every cent their stunt cost authorities and sign an agreement never to accept money for a reality-TV deal. The kids would be better off if mom and dad stopped trying to pimp them as TV stars.

Don't You think this Couple stole 10's of thousands of dollars in rescue monies overtime pay G-d knows how much for the cost of those Military Helicopters etc etc etc. I wouldn't be surprised that the grand total of the faux Balloon boy rescue is 70 grand. Now what say You Bill Johnson.

Larry

Burn Them, if they gave a dam about the kids
they never would have pulled this stunt, the kids
are the pawns in this attempted money grab. Premeditated
fraud comes to mind algong with the word Hoax.

Helicopter alone $4500 an hour

I think the fact that they are so stupid that they think this would have worked is punishment enough.

Let's not forget either that Couples the Abbotts livelyhood fucked with IE their wheat field trampled on by the rescue people. You fuck with someone's livelyhood it's as good as stealing in My book.

Larry

No kidding! As I said there is no way that balloon could have lifted even a small dog.

Geez RealPlus 4500 an hour per Helicopter wow. If that is true then I wouldn't put it past the total to be about 100 Grand. My G-d 4500 DOLLARS WOWZER.

Larry

Does this surprise me? Nope. It's symptomatic of the general decline of this nation where individuals think a great way to make money is through outrageous behaviour, lack of integrity and the con--instead of hard work and looking out for the interests of others as well as yourself. Look at the multiple examples--1. outrageous executive pay whether you perform or not (stealing from shareholders) 2. presidents on both aisles (the Bush con in selling the iraq war and the Obama con about hope and change when he has the same people that were part of the implosion in his administration) 3. reality shows 4. congressmen and others in Washington that cheat on their taxes. 5. etal. Until members of both parties see the stench in their own parties and demand the same standards of decency within their own parties that they demand from their opponents we are going nowhere and you might as well close the doors.

"Geez RealPlus 4500 an hour per Helicopter wow."

I seriously doubt that.

Do not doubt a minute of it! The hourly costs
of military billing involve all aspects and
costs of the airframe including all maintenance
activities associated averaged into the billing.
Fuel is the cheap part

I think they should be put into a realitly TV show about prisoners. Each week they would try to get voted off the island. Each week they would be disappointed. It could be especially heart warming with cuts to the foster homes the kids will be in as they watch mom and dad each week. It would be poetic justice, they would get their dream and be punished at the same time.

The media is an idiot for believing this to begin with. LMAO it was on every network and so obvious it was a hoax!!!!

The story didn't make sense from the get go.

"Do not doubt a minute of it! The hourly costs
of military billing involve all aspects and
costs of the airframe including all maintenance
activities associated averaged into the billing.
Fuel is the cheap part"

I realize that, but most of that was going to be paid anyway, even with the aircraft on the ground. The cost of the aircraft in the first place is factored into the billing but it's not like the Guard went out and bought these two machines just for this mission. I'd bet that the actual increased costs for this mission were offset by the use of it as a realtime training exercise.

Numbers I've seen are between $14,000 and $20,000 for this mission and that's 2 birds at four hours each. I've seen estimates of Paveway costs @ $5K/hour and Kiowa costs @ $1K/hour.

Don't get me wrong, I think this family should pay for every extra dime they cost by this stunt, but they shouldn't have to pay for normal operating costs that would have been incurred anyway.

And Dad needs some serious jail time just for being an idiot.

No the bill is on the tax payers whom should
demand these frauders be prosectuded to the
fullest extent the law allows


No the bill is on the tax payers whom should
demand these frauders be prosectuded to the
fullest extent the law allows


Posted by realplus5 at 2009-10-18 08:58 PM | Reply

Here Here AMEN. 10 Years and the cost of all the money spent upon this Bogus "Rescue"

Larry

Oh and not to forget the cost of the wheat damaged in that bullshit rescue attempt too.

You know that Sarah palin Syndrome By Proxy must be a royal bitch when You catch it. It makes You do some fucking stupid shit.

Larry

"No the bill is on the tax payers whom should
demand these frauders be prosectuded to the
fullest extent the law allows"

I'm sure that is exactly what will happen. Procecutors always go for the whole ball of wax and hope for the best.

I'm more interested in the mysterious "media outlet" they keep talking about that was involved. "Blurring the line between entertainment and news" was a quote I saw.

Redial > In your paragraph 1 it's a bit more
complicated than that. Even with a SAR alert
aircraft as soon as the wheels are off the
deck the billing will come from one account
or the other. In this case the SAR account
has effectively been stripped down by xyz $
or another account down by xyz $. Training
budgets are at a minimum and are the first to be
reduced in cost saving with aviation activities.

To catch and prosecute some media clowns in
this charade also would please me to no end!

First Global Warming and now this. At least the balloon hoax is relatively inexpensive.

I WANT MY SHARE - THIS WHOLE EPISODE HAD ME ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT - HEARTBREAKING - MY B/P WENT UP TO 110/62 - HEAD RUSH EVERY TIME I STOOD UP! BEEN HAVING NIGHTMARES SINCE!

"In this case the SAR account has effectively been stripped down by xyz $ or another account down by xyz $. Training budgets are at a minimum and are the first to be reduced in cost saving with aviation activities."

I don't doubt that cost centers will shift from one department to another given different activities, but the actual cost of operating the aircraft won't change, and it all comes from the same piggy bank.

I work in training and I'm with you on the bottom of the priority heap concept. It's sad.

Still, this is just one of thousands of annual SAR "false alarms" that are already accounted for in SAR budgets.

What pisses people off, myself included, was this was just a deliberate stunt to promote a stupid Reality TV show, and I, for one, expect that it worked. These people will do just fine from whatever comes out of all this.

We've become a sad culture based on Tabloid celebrity and sensationalism.

Seems they will be up on Federal offenses
involving lying to FAA for starters

These hoaxers will make millions and do no time. Worse then that, thousands of Utube Tumors will try and trump them.

"These hoaxers will make millions and do no time. Worse then that, thousands of Utube Tumors will try and trump them."

Sadly, your are probably correct.

OK, Here's my plan. I'll hire a couple of dozen illegal Mexicans to sail a few boats I made out of cigarette butts and 40 oz Bud bottles, against the wind back to Mexico. The first one to arrive at an American Resort and register gets a change of underwear and a female goat. The winner (whoever gets back with the most pesos gets 2 female
goats and a ride in a Cadillac back to California.

Half way across the Pacific they will stage a coupe and cook the captain, the cabin mate and the dishwasher. Everybody will get a taste of white meat.

I'll be hired by a Sarah Palin look-a-like to serve Moose Milk Cheese Smores at political functions!!!

This will make me more popular then a dentist with a new drill bit. With unwavering support we will all look once again at our cards and ask who was the most diligent at oral hygiene?

Someone in the party just might win this one yet!!!

What's a few missing teeth compared to Rcades killfiles?

OK, Here's my plan. I'll hire a couple of dozen illegal Mexicans to sail a few boats I made out of cigarette butts and 40 oz Bud bottles, against the wind back to Mexico. The first one to arrive at an American Resort and register gets a change of underwear and a female goat. The winner gets 2 female
goats and a ride in a Cadillac.

Half way across the Pacific they will stage a coupe and cook the captain, his cabin mate and the dishwasher. Everybody will get a taste of white meat and fight over it.

I'll be hired by a Sarah Palin look-a-like to serve Moose Milk Cheese Smores at political functions!!!

This will make me more popular then her dentist (we all wish it could be the hair dresser), but with unwavering support we look once again at our cards and ask who was the most diligent at oral hygiene?

Someone in the party just might win this one yet!!!

What's a few missing teeth compared to Rcades rack?

Just watched the CBS interview for the first time. Very impressive show by the family, especially the dad. All the tears and the hugging and the sad recollections of what could have happened, had it, you know, been real and not, well, totally fake and a complete pimping of innocent children. Maybe they should be on a reality show or something. Because those are quality programs, loaded with real people doing real things of quality.
www.cbsnews.com

And for those who missed it, here's the NBC interview in which little Falcon blows chunks, about 6 minutes in: www.courant.com When you have a conscience, lying tends to make you ill. Dad, not being tethered to such a bothersome sense of morality, says he is "getting ticked off" at all the questions about a hoax. Darn those media people.

The parents met in acting school and are apparently very good.So are the kids. As for the stunt, they should absolutely face some serious penalties but I doubt they will be able to come up with the $$$ needed to reimburse the county, state and federal authorities who participated in the rescue effort. And let's not forget that, mercifully, there were no accidents associated with this rescue attempt. Cars could have crashed, the helicopter could have gotten too close to the balloon and crashed...just about anything could have happened while people rushed to 'save the child'. This was a thoughtless, reckless stunt staged by people who apparently put the spotlight above their own family. And I keep thinking about that one man who rushed to the downed balloon in the wheat field, not knowing what he would find when he got there. Nothing can compensate him for what he was put through at that moment.

As for their parenting skills - if what I have heard is accurate the father, Richard, has a very short fuse on his temper and the mother sounds like a dishrag for her husband. The kids have been allowed to run wild and have very poor role models in their parents. Being allowed to curse in the home? If they attend public school I just bet their teachers have some opinions of them and their conduct that they won't be willing to share with the news media. If the kids are allowed to stay with those two, the parents should at the least be attending some parenting classes with serious follow-up by child protective services.

10 years is a bit much but I would prosecute these people to the fullest extent of the law. Someone could have really gotten hurt trying to save that kid. And they cost the taxpayers a mint.

People who commit crimes that negatively affect the rest of society should go away. Having kids is not an excuse for such behavior. Its more of a reason to be sensible.

Plus the sheriff has very strongly hinted that he believes this man beats his kid and possibly his wife and that the reason the kid was puking on TV is that he's scared shitless of what his dad would do if he answered those questions truthfully.

Hopefully this family will fade into the background very quickly.

They seem to be white trash republicans. Any chance relationship with the Palins? (The father thinks Hillary is a shape shifting reptile)

Got an idea for a new reality show-Flog the Frauds.

Every time some madoff, fake vet or whackjobs like these get outed, they get publicly flogged, like they do in saudistan. Prime time ratings would be great. Viewers could vote for the number of whacks and audience members could deliver them.

Hell just use the Price Is Right money wheel. You know the one where they determin who will be in the showcase showdown. and instead of dollars and cents it will be how many Singapore Swings of the cane is used on the backsides of the frauds.

Larry

"The father thinks Hillary is a shape shifting reptile"

So why can't she shift it into something that doesn't evoke Vogon poetry?

These people have ADD and need meds.

From the article--

"We certainly know that there's a conspiracy between the husband and wife, you've probably seen some of the e-mails and some of the things on the Internet suggesting that there may be other conspirators," Alderden said.

Alderden said documents show that a media outlet has agreed to pay money to the Heenes with regard to the balloon incident. Alderden didn't name the media outlet but said it was a show that blurs "the line between entertainment and news."

It wasn't clear whether the deal was signed before or after the alleged hoax, or whether the media outlet was a possible conspirator.

"Let's call it (my statement) short of speculation that a media outlet was in on the hoax, but let's not discount the possibility," he said.
------

At first I thought there would be no reason for a hoax of this magnitude...

Then I remembered some people will do anything for money--lie, cheat, kill--fake a balloon hoax...

So there is likely a media involvement here that offered to pay this wacked out family money to pull this stunt.

And I am not excusing the parents--but 10 years? I know you are kidding Larry--exaggerating just a bit??

If there is a media outlet--they should be given the bill for the resources used for the hoax.

Parents need to grow up and take care of their kids. You know --get a real job!

These rotten bastards aren't going to face any Jail time. What kind of fucked up legal system do we have?? They should do some serious jailtime for their hoax and fraud. I swear. Makes one So G-d damned mad.

Larry

Hoax from the planet hoaxville. You nimrods will believe anything.

POSTED BY CAPTAINNEMO AT 2009-10-16 01:05 AM
I told you so. Please explain what about this story was believable from the beginning?

They uncovered this hoax in a matter of a few days. We need to get that sherrif's office working on the obvious global warming hoax.

#48--- Larry, I have read many of your posts and rarely agree with them but your right on with this one (excluding the language). Nothing surprises me about this country any longer. We left sanity, integrity, and civility back in the 50s.

Yes ever since I discovered the shock value of saying words like shit fuck and G-d Damn I have had a very big problem with My language. I do apologize for that. I should eat more Lava handsoaps and lye soaps but I am afraid their effectiveness as waned as time goeth on. I have a potty Mouth no doubt about that.

Larry

They seem to be white trash republicans.
#43 | Posted by furio

If the father would have been a Republican, he would have had a real job, you idiot. I'll bet the balloon materials were paid for with stimulus money a study to see if ballon travel was cheaper than light rail travel.

If the father would have been a Republican, he would have had a real job, you idiot.

How do you explain GW Bush? The putz never had a real job his entire life. How about Sarah Palin or Ann Coulter? When has either one ever had a real job?

How do you explain GW Bush? The putz never had a real job his entire life. How about Sarah Palin or Ann Coulter? When has either one ever had a real job?


#54 | Posted by RingMaster

What did Chocolate Carter do, dimwit? Practice Organizing with his degree?

Wis is getting more and more fringy.


Kinda fun to watch.

Kinda fun to watch.

#56 | Posted by TedBaxter

Beats gay porn, eh?

Beats gay porn, eh?

about the same

about the same

#58 | Posted by bruceaz

Well, you're the expert.

#59 | Posted by wisgod

ff

Just wondering why gay porn was the first thing to pop into your mind?

Does your wife know?

TY. Hope you know I'm never serious unless I'm retorting with Tedbaxter.

Never mind. I know why.



How many days til Goat gets back?


Just wondering why gay porn was the first thing to pop into your mind?


Does your wife know?

#61 | Posted by TedBaxter

I'll ask. I don't think she has an opinion of you regardless of sexual preference.

#63 | Posted by TedBaxter at 2009-10-19 09:30 PM

What's that suppose to mean?

You know it seems to Me the Mother suffers from Battered Womens syndrome from all of the abuse thrown Her way by the Dude. I say lock Him up for a good 10 Years and hope to G-d She can get straightened out. I know that will never happen but I can dream can't I??

Larry

Couple days ago when this story first broke, I said he should be in jail, it was fake,


told ya so.

concerning: First Global Warming and now this. At least the balloon hoax is relatively inexpensive.

Hey, this balloon was way more believable than the global warming hoax where the average world temp has actually been declining since 1998..

I mean how dum can one get>

Now felony charges is a great idea.

These people do NOT need to be running around with guns, thats for plain sure.

I snt my dog up in a balloon, and never called the sherif
oviouly looking for pub-licity,

You know I should of sent up all My Report Cards growing up in a basket with Helium filled Balloons attached. Oh and I most certainly wouldn't of called the local news either. heheheheh

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