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The Larimer County Sheriff's Department will investigate the family suspected of falsely claiming that a 6-year-old boy was trapped inside a runaway helium balloon yesterday. Sources tell TMZ that officials have not decided if it's a criminal investigation, but detectives will interview each family member starting tomorrow. (The family's presumably all booked up with interviews today.) The investigation will try to determine whether the parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, filed a false report, perhaps motivated by an insatiable lust for fame—TLC confirms the family did pitch a reality TV show earlier this year.
TMZ, which is really in its element with this one, has also obtained a recording of the 911 call made by the parents yesterday, just 15 minutes after the balloon floated away. Mayumi is the first parent on the phone, and she does sound authentically distraught as she tries to explain what the hell happened. At one point the 911 operator asks, "Does he know how to work the flying saucer?" We hope this story never dies, because then we'll have to pay attention to the painful state budget.
If this whole thing was a hoax, as 6-year-old Falcon seemed to admit on TV last night, it wouldn't be the Heene's first such stunt. Richard Heene previously sold a series of videos called "Fake or Real" on the internet, and last year posted a YouTube video under the online identity "The Psyience Detectives." The video depicted what appeared to be a terrorist attack in DC, showing smoke coming out of a car near the U.S. Capitol, accompanied by the sound of missles. A man in the video is heard saying, "What the f***? Jesus Christ. What's going on?", which has pretty much been our pussified reaction every time we learn something new about the Heenes.
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The mother sounds very upset in the phone call. And I'm also impressed that the 911 operator is calmly saying stuff like "Does he know how to work the flying saucer?"
Good god I hope this story continues to get weirder and weirder.
family of dicks
The father's body language and eye contact avoidance makes me very uneasy with his truth telling. It's a combination of maniacal egotism/narcissism and hacky improvisation.
Yep, his shifty eyes on the Today show was odd to say the least.
Me, I'm thinking this was a hoax...
delusions of grandeur are as american as apple pie.
She does sound upset, but it's entirely possible the Dad cooked this up himself and didn't tell her.
that's the thing about dating hot half-asian chicks, you never know if they came from some screwed up family with some creepy, maladjusted yellow tail chaser.
Obviously, it's just that the mother wasn't in on the joke. Which would make this a clear case of spousal abuse.
Gothamist is a website about New York.
Are you suggesting a family that went on Wife Swap may be seeking publicity? How dare you. I am appalled.
How dare they thwart our lust for live cable news snuff footage by perpetrating this hoax!
As gothamist is posting stuff from random places, here is a random comment...
Please post your own also...:
Quebec general election, 1952
The Quebec general election of 1952 was held on July 16, 1952 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Union Nationale, led by Maurice Duplessis, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Georges-Émile Lapalme.
This was the fourth time (and the third in a row) that Duplessis led his party to a general election victory.
The number of seats won by the Liberals, and their share of the popular vote, were considerably increased over the previous election in 1948.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maurice Duplessis won? The hell you say.
How dare you people post things on your website!
It's a real shame, and while this is probably a non-issue for the boy right now, this will be damaging to his psychological well-being in the future. It was awkward, almost painful, to hear how his father was talking about him last night on Larry King. Are these fit parents? They are contributing to a psychological profile I don't even feel comfortable envisioning.
I'm always suspicious when someone videotapes a random accident.
"As gothamist is posting stuff from random places, here is...."
Another random comment about a place that is not New York City!
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and is the second largest in the solar system with an equatorial diameter of 119,300 kilometers (74,130 miles). Much of what is known about the planet is due to the Voyager explorations in 1980-81. Saturn is visibly flattened at the poles, a result of the very fast rotation of the planet on its axis. Its day is 10 hours, 39 minutes long, and it takes 29.5 Earth years to revolve about the Sun. The atmosphere is primarily composed of hydrogen with small amounts of helium and methane. Saturn is the only planet less dense than water (about 30 percent less). In the unlikely event that a large enough ocean could be found, Saturn would float in it. Saturn's hazy yellow hue is marked by broad atmospheric banding similar to, but fainter than, that found on Jupiter.
solarviews website, Saturn page
I always knew Saturn was nothing but a fame-whore.
Right? At least Neptune's rings are *real*.