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The Balloon Boy story: it ain't over yet
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The Balloon Boy story doesn't seem to be over yet. Reports are that Richard and Mayumi Heene both took (independently) lie detector tests over the weekend. Investigators are refusing to reveal the results while the lawyer for the Heenes points out that the results cannot be used in court anyway.
The reason they cannot be used in court is because lie detector tests don't actually work but investigators do still love to use them. Still, any charges that will be filed are unlikely to come before next week.
There's still more to it of course: there's more than a sneaking suspicion that at least one TV show was in on the whole adventure:
Officers said documents showed that a media outlet had agreed to pay money to Richard Heene, who is alleged to have organised the stunt in order to secure his own reality show.
Finally, for today's installment of the Balloon Boy story, we've one of Richard Heen's former assistants claiming that he had been told that it was all a hoax:
A FORMER assistant of the father of "Balloon Boy" Falcon Heene has admitted that he plotted the hoax with him. Robert Thomas, 25, said Richard Heene wanted to drum up publicity to land a reality show with a UFO-shaped balloon.
Although the actual allegation he makes about a hoax isn't the one that actually happened: it was to film something that looked like a UFO, not to pretend that the boy was up in it at the time.
