The grand total cost of pulling off a national hoax is whatever balloon-making supplies go for, $US42,000 in fines and 30 days of jail time. Richard “Balloon Dad” Heene probably considers that a bargain in the world of attention-whoring. More »
According to court records made public today, Mayumi Heene, Balloon Boy’s mum, has admitted that the whole incident was orchestrated to make the Heene family more “marketable for future media interest”. Nice parenting. More »
