Not that most of us doubted it was anything but, the truth is now out about the Balloon Boy hoax.
The mother of “Balloon Boy,” Mayumi Heene, has confessed to lying to authorities and said that the release of the 20-foot Mylar balloon on Oct. 15 was “intentional as a hoax,” according to an affidavit obtained by the Fort Collins Coloradoan.
In the affidavit sworn out by sheriff’s investigator Robert Heffernan, Mayumi Heene said she and her husband knew all along that their son Falcon, 6, was not on board the balloon but rather hiding in their home, and that the motive for the hoax was to make their family “more marketable for future media interest.”
Even though Mayumi has confessed, her husband Richard Heene’s criminal fate is still “up in the air,” according to Scott Robinson, a Denver defense attorney, who is not involved with the case.
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I love a publicity stunt as well as the next goof, but they shouldn’t involve the abuse of emergency organizations that might be needed to save the life of someone really in trouble. I do hope the general public is learning a lesson about future hoaxes, and I do hope people will not take this out upon the children of this family.
