In a bizarre spectacle televised live, a homemade balloon lifted off from a Ft. Collins, Colo., home Thursday and sailed for two hours and more than 60 miles before softly landing in a field.
But contrary to initial reports that 6-year-old Falcon Heene – the son of a thrill-seeking reality show couple – had climbed into the helium-filled and released the rope holding it to the ground, it now seems he was at home all along – hiding in the attic of his family's garage.
"This couldn't have been a happier outcome," said Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden after the boy was found late in the afternoon.
An emotional Heene family adamantly denied their son's brief disappearance coinciding with a weather balloon floating away from their backyard was a hoax.
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Wife Mayumi (43) and storm scientist Richard (45) take their three kids, Bradford (, Ryo (7) and Falcon (5), out of school to go on storm chasing missions to prove Richard's theories about magnetic fields and gravity. If conditions are right, Mayumi wakes her family by shouting "Storm Approaching, Storm Approaching!" into a bullhorn. The family sleep in their clothes so they can leap out of bed and into the storm-mobile. Richard calls Mayumi his 'ninja wife'; she maintains equipment, drives the storm-mobile, films tornadoes and waits with the kids while Richard jumps on his motorbike, heads into the eye of the storm and launches rockets to measure magnetic forces. At home the family are as chaotic as a twister: the kids have no table manners and throw themselves around the house, and while Richard devotes every moment to his research, he expects Mayumi to cook, clean and run the house without any help.
ok, i have been preoccupied with real life and then an 8 hour flight so i've been off the news radar.
but are you fucking kidding me??? how does a obvious fame whoring scam like this one become international headline news??
i can't wait for richard branson to get his spaceship up and running. put these losers in there, along with everyone who's ever been on big brother/wife swap/jon and kate plus 8/america's got talent/x-factor/etc, that spastic dancing british girl, marichan and blast them all off into space where they belong.
I saw the wife in Japanese news last night. Her Japanese is a little rusty but she seemed pretty sincere about making her parents worry.
I guess they've been on some TV show in the states called 'Wife Swap' a couple times. They do sound like nut cases (who the hell names their kid Falcon?), but then again I have close family members into that whole UFO cult thing too.
I saw the wife in Japanese news last night. Her Japanese is a little rusty but she seemed pretty sincere about making her parents worry.
I guess they've been on some TV show in the states called 'Wife Swap' a couple times. They do sound like nut cases (who the hell names their kid Falcon?), but then again I have close family members into that whole UFO cult thing too.
The Heene family lives a few doors down from my old house in Fort Collins, Colorado. My former neighbor, a state patrolman, says that the Heene's have very strange sources of income. That is, Richard Heene claimed to be a contractor up until three years ago (but he never had a contractors license) and he also has stated he owned his newish house free-and-clear (which was true according to country records).
My neighbor, Danny, the state patrolman said that the Heene family finances were so suspicious that he informally investigated them a couple of times: No drug money--just wire transfers of HUGE amounts of money from Japan.
I saw the wife in Japanese news last night. Her Japanese is a little rusty but she seemed pretty sincere about making her parents worry.
I guess they've been on some TV show in the states called 'Wife Swap' a couple times. They do sound like nut cases (who the hell names their kid Falcon?), but then again I have close family members into that whole UFO cult thing too.
This is bloody fucking brilliant
__________________ "Doing engineering calculations with the imperial system is like wiping your ass with acorns, it works, but it's painful and stupid."
00:41 Falcon Heene: "We did this for the show..."
00:42 Richard Heene: " Man~!"
00:43 Mayumi Heene (?) distinctive high-pitched fart, followed by "Nooo?" (two other kids swivel their heads in direction of the farter)
