Posted on 10/17/2009 4:24:32 AM PDT by Daffynition
There is allegedly proof that the story of balloon boy Falcon Heene was a stunt to help pitch a television show. But the purported proof will cost you thousands of dollars to get.
Today, we spoke with a Denver-area student who claims to have worked with Falcon's father, Richard Heene, on a reality show proposal for ABC.
The student wants to sell the information and says the National Enquirer is considering buying it for between $5,000 and $8,000.
The student claims to have been hired by Heene, and says the two worked together from March until May 2009 to prepare "business plans and proposals" to pitch to ABC.
Here's what the seller says the documents prove:
"The show surrounds scientific experiments and controversial pranks, and one of the pranks within it — actually several of the things within this document — talks about very similar information to what is being debated on the air."
The seller adds:
"When Mr. Heene is denying having any involvement with this being for a show — when the little kid, Falcon, says 'Dad, you said to go hide in the attic, we're doing this for the show' — and then he's adamantly denying that, that's when I started cracking up because I have proof that that's not true."
The student says Heene never paid for the work, which took more than 15 hours. The student emailed him/herself the proposal as a record and doesn't believe Heene knows the seller has the information.
"I never would have thought it would become valuable, but at this time, this is kind of the evidence that they're looking for," the seller says.
"I'm a student, you know, so if I can get my rent paid from this it'd be awesome."
If you want to buy the proof, let us know, and we'll put you in touch with the seller.
We have socialists and marxists out to destroy the country in order to reshape it in their own image and yet people are focused on some family who may have pulled a stunt with a helium balloon. Unbelievable.
Let’s hope that these 15 minutes of fame are truly only 15 minutes. However, I will always remember baloon boy puking on the Today show. And all this time, I thought it was just me.
I don’t think balloon boy and his saga is at all inconsistent with what’s going on macropolitically.
It’s all part of the same scam, small and large, and it’s all coming to us courtesy of the MEDIA, mainstream or not.
The balloon scam started as a human interest/potential disaster story, which the media, including FOX, followed slavishly , because they wanted ratings and wanted to cash in on the glory of finding the boy alive or the tragedy of finding him dead. All this stuff is cut from the same cultural cloth: I don’t think it’s a matter of “we should be following the important news and not this trivial stuff”.
Bwaaa! That would be Joe “Falcon” Biden, I presume... or is it Joe “Gasbag” Biden?
We already have proof. That video of the launch was enough for any reasonable person.
I think the good sheriff may be calling on the lad as a key witness in the investigation of a very exensive hoax. The 9-1-1 call also had the Dad talking about “controls” in the craft operating at “a millinon volts”. Huh?
The “stunt”...if that’s what it was...cost an estimated $2 MILLION in equipment and manpower and should be investigated, IMO!
Idiocracy was a documentary.
CNN now reporting that they made their first call to the FAA, the 2nd call to a local news station in case they had a chopper available to help and the third call was 911.
So you suspect that people in the news business might be doing it to make a living? Remarkable.
I know a guy who has one of those - candy apple red - think it’s a 63.
Totally pristine. Dam near priceless!
Ya know, I understand where you are coming from..in the grand scheme of things it is rather silly. What is not silly, however, is the amount of time and money spent on this fiasco. DIA flights were rerouted, police and emergency personnel were engaged, private helicopter and plane owners were giving of their time to try to help..this man and his wife should face the consequences...and as a sidenote, if they love thier child, they should have his name changed so he doesn’t go through the rest of his life being known as a fraud.
You are right, I concede to your point. The ballon story hits close to home for me. But, your complaint is a valid one. We, as a nation, are spoon-fed “celebrity” mindless news, i.e. runaway brides, police chases,would-be killers wearing diapers, celebrity meltdowns, while the economy, health care and a two front war rage on. The dumbing down of a nation continues, in our schools and in the news. I stand corrected.
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