Posted on 10/15/2009 9:00:26 PM PDT by americanophile
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The 6-year-old Colorado boy thought to have floated off in a homemade balloon has raised questions whether it might have been a family stunt.
During a live interview on CNN, Falcon Heene said he heard his family calling his name as he hid in the rafters of their garage. At the time, there was a frantic effort to bring down the balloon safely.
Falcon's father asked, "Why didn't you come out?" The boy answered, "You had said we did this for a show."
After the CNN interview, the father said he didn't know what his son meant. The boys' parents have appeared twice in the ABC reality show "Wife Swap." The show promoted the Heene family as storm chasers who also "devote their time to scientific experiments that include looking for extraterrestrials and building a research-gathering flying saucer to send into the eye of the storm."
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Then they deserve to get a bill.
I’m not sure it’s clear what Falcon meant, but I do think some further questioning is definitely in order here.
That’s awful.
Naming one’s kid “Falcon” is prima facie evidence of having a screw loose.
Cute little fella though, glad nothing happened to him.
By what the media was reporting it seemed the parents weren’t acting like concerned parents, I may be wrong and probably am, but still something doesn’t seem right.
They did do some further questioning and the father clammed up and ended the interview because he was "appalled"!
This was a hoax! They need to get a warrant and then drag the kids in and question them outside the presence of their parents.
Apparently these clowns didn't call 911, they called the media when they claimed their son was carried away in the balloon. That should tell you something.
Explains the interest in flight though...
Why does the movie “The Mosquito Coast” come to mind?
Filled with helium, it would only be able to carry a payload of five pounds, maybe.
To carry a fifty pound kid it would have had to be much, much larger. So large that the neighbors would have complained about it being in the back yard.
Well - the kid could be exposing something - or he could be embarrassing the hell out of his parents.
Tough to tell - kids will say the darndest things at the worst moments and make you want to crawl under a rock.
I remember my son going up to a woman with a thick mustache and saying “are you a lady or a guy?”
I'm just sayin'..
How big would a helium balloon have to be....
...to carry Michelle Obama?
Was that the movie when that I believe Australian hooked up to a bunch of helium balloons in a aluminum lawn chair and traveled for miles? I caught a movie one night late and it was amusing!
How can you say that? On the videos of the first interview after he was found, the dad and mom choked up several times and clutched Falcon even tighter than they were already holding him! There definitely WAS concern in their voices and actions there—or else these people are the best actors on the planet!
A lot of Hot Air!
i was a single father. brought my date (now wife) inside to meet my 4 kids. the 6 yr old immediately asked her “did my dad get frisky?”
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