Posted on 10/18/2009 10:09:18 AM PDT by Steelfish
Colo. sheriff calls balloon saga a hoax He says ordeal was staged to generate publicity for a reality TV show
FORT COLLINS. Colo. - A sheriff said he was pursuing criminal charges in Colorado's "balloon boy" saga, which he described Sunday as a hoax to generate publicity for a reality TV show.
Deputies searched the home of the boy's parents Saturday night, carrying away several boxes and a computer.
The boy's parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, met with Larimer County investigators for much of Saturday afternoon amid lingering questions about whether he perpetrated a publicity stunt when his 6-year-old son Falcon vanished into the rafters of his garage while the world thought he was zooming through the sky in a flying saucer-like helium balloon.
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That is frankly such an off-center comparison I am going to pass up answering.
That’s really cute ...
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