VIDEO: Balloon Boy Hints That Stunt Was All For Publicity
Posted on Oct 16, 2009 @ 06:00AM
And the plot thickens: Just hours after Falcon Heene, the six-year-old believed to have floated off to his doom in a helium balloon was found safe and alive Thursday, the boy and his family sat down with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, possibly letting slip that the nearly two-hour saga might have been an elaborate publicity stunt.
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When Blitzer asked Falcon why he didn't come out from his family's garage (where he was during the harrowing ordeal) while they searched for him, Falcon turned to his father and said to him: "You had said that we did this for a show."
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Blitzer followed up on the awkward moment later in the program, asking the boy to explain the "show" comment, to the dismay of the boy's father, Richard.
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Said the ex-reality TV dad: "I think I can see the direction you guys are hedging on this ... and I'm kind of appalled, after all of the feelings that I went through, up and down, that you guys are trying to suggest something else."
Blitzer backpedaled from the insinuation, but the seed of doubt had been cast.
A worldwide audience watched as the homemade helium balloon soared 7,000 feet over eastern Colorado for just under two hours; it was revealed during the dramatic incident that the boy's family had gained fame on the ABC reality show Wife Swap.
Whatever the case is, the incident was timed well for nostalgic purposes, as Friday marks the 22nd anniversary of another child rescue drama that captivated the nation, when Texas rescue crews saved "Baby Jessica" McClure, an 18-month-old girl trapped in an abandoned well for 58 hours .
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Jan 15, 2010 @ 14:43
These parents should spend time in prison and the children need to be taken away from them and raised in a normal environment. CPS should step right in and take the kids. They look stressed.
Posted Mon, 10/19/2009 - 8:30am
These people need to be charged criminally so the next one will think twice before pulling off a stunt like this
Posted Fri, 10/16/2009 - 12:45pm
Plus after the boy said that, a few seconds later, someone let's a fart rip.
Posted Fri, 10/16/2009 - 11:06am
Plus after the boy said that, a few seconds later, someone let's a fart rip.
Posted Fri, 10/16/2009 - 11:06am
This father is a con-man and the mother is just plain stupid. They need to be handed the bill for the search & resuce effort and told to pay up. These kids need pyschiatric help and an education!
Posted Fri, 10/16/2009 - 9:24am
The father is a tool and the mother is a joke for going along with it. What a waste of humanity. Throw the book at this loser.
Posted Fri, 10/16/2009 - 8:23am
This is just out of control. The kid got physically sick on ntl tv this am. If it comes out the dad did this for publicity they should fine him HUGE...
Posted Fri, 10/16/2009 - 8:16am
A kid that age doesn't lie, the father got busted! Did he really think he could get good publicity out of this?
Posted Fri, 10/16/2009 - 7:42am
The state needs to send an investigator.
Posted Fri, 10/16/2009 - 7:42am
money spent on finding him could have been used to help someone really needing it- on cnn you can see it was nothing put a stunt-children that age do tell the truth , he thought he did it for a show as he had done in wife swap 2 other times
Posted Fri, 10/16/2009 - 7:24am