Balloon Boy Parents Are Coming to New York

111409balloon.jpg Ah, fresh meat! After pleading guilty to staging their ridiculous hoax involving their 6-year-old son Falcon and a runaway helium balloon, fame-hunters Richard and Mayumi Heene were granted permission by a Colorado judge to visit New York City. The purpose of their trip? An unspecified "employment opportunity." See? Exploiting your children and deceiving an entire nation pays!

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That's Mr. Del Signore to you, chum.

Well now this story finally belongs on this blog.

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Wasn't it inevitable that they brought their fame whoring to New York? Gothamist was just getting in front of the story.

"Exploiting your children and deceiving an entire nation pays!"

Duh. Just ask Sarah Palin.

oh boy, this is gonna be good....

Now we know what that "UFO" in Central Park contains.

"Live from the Hotel Plaza it's the Falcon Heene show"

I still don't understand what the hoax was supposed to do. Our balloon took off with our kid, no not with our kid but he's missing, oh wait here's our kid. Let's make a TV show?

there's still comments for this topic?

They've come to New York to escape American justice.

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