I can’t blame the sheriff, although he’s the one who went out to the press and said he saw no evidence it was a hoax the other day. Larimer County is still a pretty rural (and very nice) place, he’s probably not been in this kind of spotlight before and said what he thought was true at the time.
Congrats to FReepers who called this right from the start. I was unsure, but after seeing the video cameras rolling and a kid saying the wrong thing and then puking on live TV the next day, it sure seemed like someone was orchestrating things...
It was bizarre, wasn’t it? Even while something seemed “off”..it was still a nailbiter.
There were a lot of freepers who saw through it quickly- I wasn’t one of them- it just seemed too fantastic that anyone would do such a thing as a hoax.