Are you kidding me? WTF kind of brain-dead bullshit is that to say? As if a six year old can even begin to conceptualize to leave knowing he’s risking is life. I get it…you were just being really weird. One thing extremely evident…YOU DONT HAVE KIDS. Thank god…with your mindset…wonder what YOUR KIDS might want to do.
Lmao… I had to laugh at that.
It is kinda funny, but you don’t need to say that about beech.And beech should not have said anything bad about the kid. I made a joke a little while ago, but I did not know the whole situation. I am glad the kid is alright!
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You know…I was once told that I shouldnt throw stones in glass houses.
I wonder what people might say about us? After all, some people might find it a little wierd (especially the govt) that we track flights without being in the official capacity to do so or the need. IE ATC ARTCC TACRON
NORAD etc. As a pilot, I find this site useful to me…weather, flight planning, air traffic routing consistencies, charts all at my fingertips, I dont particularly give one rats ass what oprah flies or where shes going or what the hell she flies for that matter. My point? I think your wierder.
Imagine that. But hey thats just m opinion. I could be wrong.
Now some of the facts are coming out. From NPR:
Cathy Davis of the Larimer County Sheriff’s Department told reporters the balloon was owned by the boy’s parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene.
The family members have been local celebrities since appearing last year on the television show Wife Swap. “When the Heene family aren’t chasing storms, they devote their time to scientific experiments that include looking for extraterrestrials and building a research-gathering flying saucer to send into the eye of the storm,” the program’s Web site states.
In a 2007 interview with The Denver Post, Richard Heene said he became a storm chaser after a tornado ripped off a roof where he was working as a contractor. He said he flew a plane around Hurricane Wilma’s perimeter in 2005.
Pursuing bad weather was a family activity as the father sought evidence to prove his theory that rotating storms create their own magnetic fields.
Explains the balloon, why they have it, and who the family is. ample justification for the balloon, though one has to wonder how it was inflated unless the parents or big brother showed him how to, or he picked up what the father was doing.
It could be that the kid was overzealous in wanting to prove to daddy that he was a scientist/stormchaser too… but child behaviour is another topic well away from here.
But there’s your reasoning for the balloon.
BL.
“**It could be that the kid was overzealous **in wanting to prove to daddy that he was a scientist/stormchaser too… but child behaviour is another topic well away from here.”
As a father of three competitive “Type A” Boys…that is VERY PLAUSIBLE tyketto.
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People have said far worse about me. Sticks and stones…
You know…I was once told that I shouldnt throw stones in glass houses.
You must be rich living somewhere where there is glass houses?
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I was once told that I had diarrhea. Yeah I know, felt I’d say something irrelevant too.
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You don’t know if I use, or have used this site to track flights because I needed to.
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What does Oprah have to do with the price of rice? I never expressed any interest in Oprah ever. On the internet or otherwise. The only exception is that I may have mentioned her in a Gulfstream vs GlobEx debate because I think she got a GlobEx over a Gulfstrem… I can’t verify that.
My point? I think you’re weirdest. Imagine that. But hey, that’s just my opinion. I could be wrong, but I bet I’m not.
Larry King Live has the family on TV.
~The kid is appropriately named Falcon.
~Dad ran in the house and called the FAA, they told him to call 911. Dad was confused as to why he should call 911?
~Police took 30 minutes to get there but dad was still on the phone with 911… (what?)
~Dad says the balloon WOULD carry kid’s weight.
~Falcon: “My dad didn’t want me to play with the flying saucer”
~Dad: "Balloon was one of our family inventions.
~Mom and Dad: Sitting on the couch grieving the loss of Falcon and he walked around the corner after waking up in the garage.
~Dad: It was not a publicity stunt.
Poor Larry King!
The kid says it was for publicity… never trust a kid! He says it at 0:34… the dad answers by saying “You didn’t come out?” when he really meant “I cant believe this little POS just said that on live TV! What do I say?!”
Wow, 6 year old kid could have killed himself for publicity! 
A budding scientist (such as this child of 2 “scientists”) is likely to be possessed by curiosity, and I did mean to say it that way. But at age 6 he doesn’t understand causality and consequences with any depth. Regardless of what came out on Larry King, another reasonable guess is that he saw yet another unfinished project as a toy, and went over to see how it worked.
One of my kids was a relentless fiddler when she was little, fiddling with stuff that wasn’t hers and often was delicate. Often really pissed us off with stuff she broke, but it was just curiosity.
BUSTED!!! Sorry, but being a parent of a young one like this, it is VERY unlikely that the kid is lying to Wolf’s first question. Notice how dad tries to cover…
Sooo funny! Watch the dad’s neck and cheek tense right after the kids says “You guys told me we did it for the show…” And the Mom’s pathetic “Nooo”
Hopefully (when it’s revealed that it was a publicity stunt), they’ll be charged for all of the manpower, various helicopters, media outlets that covered this sham of a story. We were all hudled around my computer at my office yesterday watching and as soon as they cut it open and didn’t find the kid, I called it. Hey, I want those 2 hours I wasted back too! Stupid TV hungry families - “gosselin-itis” must be spreading…
Affidavit: Mom told deputies balloon saga was hoax
By DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer Dan Elliott, Associated Press Writer - Fri Oct 23, 6:49 pm ET
DENVER - The mother of the 6-year-old boy once feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon admitted the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents released Friday.
Mayumi Heene told sheriff’s deputies that she and her husband Richard “knew all along that Falcon was hiding in the residence” in Fort Collins, according to an affidavit used to get a search warrant for the home.
She allegedly told investigators the incident was a hoax meant to make them more marketable to the media.
“Mayumi described that she and Richard Heene devised this hoax approximately two weeks earlier… She and Richard had instructed their three children to lie to authorities as well as the media regarding this hoax,” the affidavit said.
Richard Heene has denied a hoax. His lawyer, David Lane, said Friday he is waiting to see the evidence in the case.
“Allegations are cheap,” Lane said.
Mayumi Heene’s lawyer, Lee Christian, was traveling and didn’t immediately respond to messages left with his office.
Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden has said he will recommend charges against the Heenes including conspiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, making a false report to authorities, and attempting to influence a public servant. The most serious charges are felonies and carry a maximum sentence of six years in prison.
Alderden said authorities also would be seeking restitution for the costs of the balloon chase, though he didn’t provide a figure.
His office has said it will likely be next week before it forwards its findings to prosecutors to decide on charges.
In frantic calls to a TV station, 911 and federal aviation officials, the Heenes reported that they feared Falcon was in the homemade, saucer-like balloon when it was accidentally launched from their back yard last week.
Millions watched as media and National Guard helicopters tracked the balloon across the Colorado plains. It landed in a dusty farm field, where ground crews looked inside but found no sign of the boy.
Later, the relieved-looking couple reported Falcon had been hiding in their garage the whole time. But suspicion heated up when Falcon made a comment on CNN that sounded like “You had said we did this for a show.”
Sheriff’s deputies questioned the parents separately on Oct. 17, two days after the flight. Mayumi Heene told authorities “she and Richard Heene had lied to authorities on October 15, 2009 (the day of the flight),” the affidavit said.
She told investigators “that the release of the flying saucer was intentional as a hoax… The motive for the fabricated story was to make the Heene family more marketable for future media interest,” the affidavit said.
The Heenes twice had appeared on ABC’s reality show “Wife Swap,” and acquaintances said Richard Heene had plans for other possible shows.
The producer of “Wife Swap” had a show in development with the Heenes but said the deal is now off. The TLC cable network also said Heene had pitched a reality show months ago, but it passed on the offer.
Sheriff’s officials declined to comment Friday.
Among the items taken by authorities during the home search Saturday were video cameras, computers, hard drives, a picture of a flying saucer, receipts, papers, a phone/address book and a flight itinerary. The list didn’t identify the passenger, destination or date of travel.
I hope they nail the dad to a cross! 
Is this not terrorism? At minimum they need to get those kids away from the crazy parents. And yes, I fell for it, while it was happening.