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Balloon Boy’s dad goes to the slammer, is this the last we’ll hear of the Heenes?
He started his jail sentence today, Monday, Jan. 11, but something tells me the world hasn’t heard the last from this nation’s #1 balloon dad.
Richard Heene turned himself into the Larimer County Detention Center for a 90 day sentence.
He must serve 30 days before he can enter a work release program , the Associated Press said.
Heene pleaded guilty last month to attempting to influence a public servant in connection to the spellbinding Oct. 15 Balloon Boy hoax.
But Heene now claims he honestly, ‘truthfully’ believed his 6-year-old son Falcon was inside the balloon the world watched floating high, high, high in the Colorado sky.
Heene even cried, cried, cried (sort of) in interviews about the case.
“The Wife Swap” subject said he pleaded guilty to the charges to appease authorities and save his wife from being deported to Japan, according to the AP.
Richard’s bride Mayumi Heene reportedly confessed the hoax. The mother of three little balloons pleaded guilty to filing a false report and faces 20 days in the Larimer County jail.
Sheriff’s investigators say she detailed her family’s intent to get a television show, and discussed their financial troubles.
Richard told the AP that his wife was just confused and didn’t know what the word “hoax” really meant.
“My wife’s first language is Japanese, not English,” Heene said. “My wife came home in tears wondering what she might have said. She opened this Japanese-to-English dictionary, and she walks up to me crying her head off, and she says to me, ‘I thought hoax meant an exhibition.’”
Oh and he says Falcon, who initially spilled the beans (“we did it for a show”) , doesn’t understand English either, Heene recently told CNN’s Larry King.
Yeah, right! Liar, Liar balloon’s on fire.
The sentencing judge said the the Heene’s could not profit from the incident in any way for four years, but I am thinking that where there is a will there is a reality show producer.
What do you think?
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By Ron
January 11, 2010 1:56 PM | Link to this
Put the parents in a balloon and send them to Japan. Maybe the kids would be lucky and be adopted by some responsible role models. As it is now, these kids don’t have a chance being raised by such idiots. My .02
By Missi
January 11, 2010 3:08 PM | Link to this
How on earth can a 6 year old, who has lived in the US his entire life, not understand any English? He seemed to understand it just fine when they were on Wife Swap….
By South rides again
January 11, 2010 3:43 PM | Link to this
That man is a bonafide pathological liar.
By Master Balloonist
January 11, 2010 3:52 PM | Link to this
Heene is a weenie. Japanese for hoax is ^##)=*}. What a maroon.
By Walt
January 11, 2010 4:48 PM | Link to this
Throw away the key!