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Balloon Boy Hoax
« Thread Started on Oct 19, 2009, 10:08am »

The boy in the balloon story that sparked a frantic search in Colorada was a hoax concocted to land a reality tv show , authorities have said. The boys parents Richard & Mayumi Heene of Fort Collins are facing charges over thursdays incident.
Investigators are also examining the possibility of there being other conspirators including the possibility that some of the media outlets may have had some knowledge of this , Larimer county sheriff Jim Alderden said.

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When I first saw this on the news my immediate thought was that by the very shape of the balloon , and the fact it was silver , that it was obviously someone trying to pull off a ufo hoax , then when the report said the missing boy could be inside it , hence the panic and rescue services involved , well you only had to look at how flimsy the balloon was to see it would'nt have got off the ground if this was the case.
When the family were interviewed on tv , the ' missing boy ' did actually say , to his fathers dismay , that " we did it to get on tv ! "

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