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November 12, 200946 views

'Balloon boy' family's guilty plea reminds us why we love attorneys

You know that one about knowing a lawyer's lying because his lips are moving? Yeah, check out Richard and Mayumi Heene's attorney, David Lane, and his statement explaining how they arrived at their guilty plea:
"Unfortunately, the prosecutors insisted upon a package deal where Richard would have to fall [...]
 
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How to Carry a Child Off Mars by Balloon

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Over the last week, contemplation of balloons led me to wonder how large a balloon would be necessary to carry boy off the Moon and into space. This was, I thought, a very clever question. So I hopped online and found that pretty much anytime anyone starts thinking hard about [...]
 
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Balloon Boy Dad Action Figure Guarantees 15 Minutes Of Fun

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How fast do they knock this crap out? Balloon Boy dad, Richard Heene, already has his very own action figure. A company called Herobuilders.com has churned out a pint-sized version of America's most hated dad with a $34.95 price tag attached. Yes, 15 minutes of fun to be had with [...]
 
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Star Trek Captain Picard explains why we love balloon boy

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Part of balloon boy’s mesmerizing power is our desire to be him—not so much the offspring of nutty parents or the object of a media feast, but the kid who flies away by helium balloon. We hear the story again and again in new iterations and are charmed each time [...]
 
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Balloon Boy hoax uncovers psych minefield

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On the morning of Friday, October 16, I sent an email to a friend of mine who is a producer on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," asking if they were going to be wasting copious resources and viewers' time covering the Heene family of Fort Collins, CO, and [...]
 
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What deflated Richard Heene's American dream

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The Heene family saga is a tale of a dream turned into a nightmare. Richard Heene, in a delusional ploy to catapult himself and his family into the national spotlight, is now likely to face some serious legal consequences. His family may be permanently fractured. Life will never be the [...]
 
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Balloon Boy mother confesses

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Well, I guess it was just a matter of time. From the Guardian:
The mother of Falcon Heene, the six-year-old American boy who sparked a major rescue operation after he was wrongly believed to have been carried away inside a helium weather balloon, has admitted the incident was a hoax, [...]
 
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The Beauty of Balloons, or Why I Forgive Richard Heene

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That Richard Heene is now so universally reviled is a testament to how utterly captivated we all were by the sight of a silver-foil balloon floating across the western skies. But why, exactly, was that? With all due respect to our concern for the six-year-old boy we thought was aloft, [...]
 
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Richard Heene as a modern day P.T. Barnum

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We at Hive Mind have had enough green shenanigans for one month. While we adore the topic, there’s at least one thing we love more, and that’s Balloon Boy. So for the next two weeks, we’ll fight to keep the story alive by exploring the forgotten angles in the media [...]
 
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Don't call him 'balloon boy'

When he was in CNN's "Situation Room" on Monday afternoon, Wolf Blitzer promised new details about the case of "the so-called balloon boy." Everyone knew whom he was talking about: Falcon Heene, the 6-year-old from Colorado whose dad set off a nationwide panic on Oct. 15 by saying his son [...]
 
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