Balloon Boy; not your typical American family!
Not only are they making the headlines, they are also not your average American family.
The Sheriff's Dept. in Larimer County, Colorado is skeptical on the validity of the desperate 911 call that claimed a six-year old boy had been carried away in their homemade helium balloon.
If this was a hoax, the parents of Falcon Heene, Richard and Mayumi, could be charged with making false claim, reports the Denver post. RadarOnline.com reported that the Heenes face a huge bill for the deployment of emergency personnel if this turns out to be a ruse for TV exposure.
The Heenes appeared on the TV series Wife Swap and have been trying to sell a reality show about their unusual lives ever since. It seems that Richard Heene is an amateur scientist and a weather chaser and would like nothing more than to have his own TV series. Richard Heene has repeatedly denied claims that he did this on purpose.
This family is interesting to say the least and there’s more to Richard Heene than meets the eye. In an interview done by Denver Post in 2007, he and partner Scott Stevens a radio show host who has a degree in broadcast meteorology, hope to prove that rotating storms create their own magnetic fields. Scott Stevens says that if they can prove that theory, it could mean a new way of predicting the weather.
While they're getting attention with the excitement they provide as weather chasers, their tactic could use a little more refinement. Hopefully they didn’t do this as a ruse, they seemed genuinely concerned with their sons welfare, and the 911 call did sound sincere.
Do you think they would make an interesting TV series to watch?
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