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VIDEO: Balloon Boy’s Dad on Tape Releasing Balloon
The balloon boy story just got more suspicious – and the Heene family has no one to blame but themselves.
After claiming to be “appalled” at insinuations that the saga was anything but a harrowing ordeal for the family, the Heenes released a video today that puts into further question why son Falcon would be hiding in the attic.
The video shows Richard Heene actually letting the balloon go himself. Supposedly the story is they thought the boy was inside, freaked, then started making calls (the first of which, according to a Gawker report on the sheriff’s press conference today was to a NEWS crew not 911).
Here’s the video courtesy of MSNBC:
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Most people willing to give the Heenes benefit of the doubt assumed the kid was afraid because he’d let the balloon go himself. This blows that theory out of the water. If Dad did the release, why would the kid be scared? And if the kid is that scared of the Dad over nothing, what kind of Dad IS he?
Add it to the “we did it for the show” comment from the kid, and we’re pretty sure we haven’t seen the last of the Heenes.
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[...] So, ew. Then dad gets all indignant about the fact that the media has the nerve – the nerve! – to continue to ask him if this whole thing was a hoax. How could anyone think that? [...]
Falcon Heene Pukes On The Today Show | Strollerderby commented on Oct 17 09 at 2:35 pm[...] what he meant by that. Then came a home video, released by the Heene’s themselves, that shows Richard – NOT Falcon – releasing the balloon. The latter brought into question again why the boy would have hid out of fear of having done [...]
UPDATE: Balloon Boy’s Family Facing Charges | Strollerderby commented on Oct 18 09 at 7:25 pmKnitty commented on Oct 17 09 at 11:15 amTo me, the biggest red flag is that that video shows that there was NO BOX attached to the balloon. And the parents were both watching as the balloon lifted off, so they damn well knew it. No box, no place for the kid to be inside the balloon. Even if they suffered a momentary OMG-what-if moment, wouldn’t a person who wasn’t lying check their video tape for the box before alerting the media?
carefree childhood commented on Oct 17 09 at 11:24 amIDGI at all. Why did they release the video if the video if the video proves they were lying?
joe commented on Oct 18 09 at 9:54 amComments
yah i dont get it, why would the release this video if it busts them? what were they thinking???? can someone please explain this?
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