jataylor All American 6652 Posts user info edit post |
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mambagrl Suspended 4724 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | ""why are you hating on mamba? i dont get it?"" |
its not even good trolling and they dont even look good while theyre doing it. im just biting the hook to make sure the hundreds of onlookers understand the seriousness of parents putting their own children in danger.
theres a fourth grade class somewhere in the computer lab on this site everyday.
Quote : | "Oh, that and "she" is just some dude trolling the Internets for responses. " |
riiiiiight...im the one trolling. HA....HA...HA
and even for fourth graders, the whole calling me a dude thing is still pretty weak
[Edited on October 16, 2009 at 2:47 PM. Reason : if ur gonna resort to pathetics, at least come strong with it? ] 10/16/2009 2:43:58 PM
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NyM410 J-E-T-S 50085 Posts user info edit post |
You know... all being retarded aside... I actually agree with you in this case. There is no reason to include your three young children with you in potentially life threatening situation's like storm chasing.
They have no say in the matter and it puts them in a threatening position. I don't necessarily know that by the law anything can be done about it, but it's shitty parenting... 10/16/2009 2:46:44 PM
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Stimwalt All American 15292 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | " COME STRONG WITH PATHETICS " |
10/16/2009 2:49:44 PM
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moron All American 34419 Posts user info edit post |
![](http://nightfire.sonicdoom.com/images/whatisthatballoondoing.png)
10/16/2009 2:56:39 PM
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wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTegy6sBQVA 10/16/2009 2:59:28 PM
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TroopofEchos All American 12212 Posts user info edit post |
![](http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs238.snc1/8526_731566268289_11823802_41313198_371481_n.jpg)
[Edited on October 16, 2009 at 6:07 PM. Reason : .]
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JoeSchmoe All American 1219 Posts user info edit post |
LOL.
that was the extent of my day, too 10/16/2009 6:17:15 PM
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JoeSchmoe All American 1219 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "theres a fourth grade class somewhere in the computer lab on this site everyday." |
well, that explains where the idiots posting here come from.
how disdainful. 10/16/2009 6:18:34 PM
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Jeepxj420 All American 6755 Posts user info edit post |
^^^ I think I found my profile picture for a few weeks ![](images/beatup.gif) 10/16/2009 6:27:45 PM
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wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "YO BALLOON BOY, I'M REAL HAPPY FOR YOU AND IMMA LET YOU FINSH BUT ANNE FRANK HAD ONE OF THE BEST ATTIC HIDING SPOTS OF ALL TIME" | [quote]
ahahahahah
man this thread was my entertainment for the night. I love tdub ![](images/kiss.gif) 10/16/2009 7:02:22 PM
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BanjoMan All American 9609 Posts user info edit post |
so could someone recap what happend to the boy? 10/16/2009 10:39:26 PM
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lucyinthesky All American 11614 Posts user info edit post |
He was "hiding" in the attic.
![](images/rolleyes.gif)
He's alive, but the parents will prob beat him to death or poison him for blowing their cover a/b their publicity stunt. 10/16/2009 10:44:07 PM
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ThePeter TWW CHAMPION 37709 Posts user info edit post |
I was watching something today that said the first people the family called was the FAA (or w/e), then the local news channel, then the authorities 10/16/2009 10:47:34 PM
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lucyinthesky All American 11614 Posts user info edit post |
I read that too. Which is the dead giveaway that it's for publicity. Local newspeople are tards. What are they going to do about a boy in a runaway balloon? 10/16/2009 10:49:26 PM
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wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
I can kind of understand calling the FAA first, but the news station before the police?
I won't feel particularly bad for the parents if they lose their kids over this stunt but it will be sad for the kids since it seems they genuinely like their parents and don't have the shit beaten out of them like your run of the mill foster children. 10/16/2009 11:24:56 PM
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moron All American 34419 Posts user info edit post |
http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/10/18/sheriff-holds-news-conference-confirming-the-balloon-boy-incident-was-a-hoax-parents-could-face-jail-time/
po’ po’ says the entire family conspired to lied 10/18/2009 4:26:20 PM
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kiljadn All American 44691 Posts user info edit post |
HAHAHA 10/18/2009 4:28:20 PM
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tripleD4u All American 6247 Posts user info edit post |
haha w00t 10/18/2009 4:29:59 PM
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lucyinthesky All American 11614 Posts user info edit post |
I hope john & kate + 8 is replaced by "falcon in the middle". These folks need a reality show. Especially to pay their attorneys for this mess. 10/18/2009 4:33:23 PM
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synapse play so hard 60940 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | " These folks need a reality show. Especially to pay their attorneys for this mess." |
fuck no they don't. that's exactly why they did this shit...to get a show. 10/18/2009 4:37:01 PM
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pilgrimshoes Suspended 63151 Posts user info edit post |
according to the paper this morning tlc was in talks with them for a reality show
and have since ended said talks
gg 10/18/2009 4:38:38 PM
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synapse play so hard 60940 Posts user info edit post |
^ i read that TLC passed on them months ago
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/18/colorado.balloon.investigation/index.html] 10/18/2009 4:39:48 PM
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jataylor All American 6652 Posts user info edit post |
^^^^that would just be adding fuel to the fire, they need to be fined Texa$
[Edited on October 18, 2009 at 4:40 PM. Reason : ^] 10/18/2009 4:40:25 PM
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Fermat All American 47007 Posts user info edit post |
how exactly do you define "conspiracy" as a charge? i tried google but just got five hundred million pages dedicated to how george bush killed jfk or something 10/18/2009 4:40:47 PM
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pilgrimshoes Suspended 63151 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "^ i read that TLC passed on them months ago" |
oh.
the delaware papes kidna suck? 10/18/2009 4:42:26 PM
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Fermat All American 47007 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "In the criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future," |
hahahahh omg no wonder ten percent of the country is in prison. how about conspiracy to commit conspiracy. total opportunity to railroad some more black people 10/18/2009 4:46:00 PM
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nicklepickle All American 11693 Posts user info edit post |
think of all the money wasted by the government by these iditos.
they should serve jail time or pay it back 10/18/2009 4:46:08 PM
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begonias warning: not serious 19581 Posts user info edit post |
I saw them when they were on Wife Swap... that dad is a fucking loon. 10/18/2009 5:04:53 PM
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jataylor All American 6652 Posts user info edit post |
^^ serving jail time would just waste more tax payers money. 10/18/2009 5:24:19 PM
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wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | " The parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, met in a Hollywood acting school and "put on a very good show for us," Alderden said. Authorities know there was "a conspiracy" between them, he added." |
Figures ![](images/rolleyes.gif)
[Edited on October 18, 2009 at 6:28 PM. Reason : http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/18/colorado.balloon.investigation/index.html] 10/18/2009 6:27:43 PM
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gunzz IS NÚMERO UNO 68205 Posts user info edit post |
the puking video is great 10/18/2009 7:08:02 PM
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Stimwalt All American 15292 Posts user info edit post |
Called it.
That is all. 10/19/2009 8:26:37 AM
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terpball All American 22489 Posts user info edit post |
what puking video 10/19/2009 10:22:39 AM
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wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
the family is interviewing with CNN and Falcon pukes. It's hilarious.
[Edited on October 19, 2009 at 10:41 AM. Reason : well, apparently not CNN, but live during an interview at least] 10/19/2009 10:25:02 AM
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thumper All American 21574 Posts user info edit post |
it's from a few pages back:
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SaabTurbo All American 25459 Posts user info edit post |
^ Nice son! ![](images/tongue.gif) 10/19/2009 10:34:55 AM
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9one9 All American 21497 Posts user info edit post |
10/19/2009 10:41:39 AM
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vonjordan3 AIR 43669 Posts user info edit post |
hahahah
This thread is awesome!! 10/19/2009 4:25:21 PM
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hooksaw All American 16500 Posts user info edit post |
![](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/01/08/books/niven2.big.jpg)
Ah, yes, we need more balloons.
10/19/2009 4:39:04 PM
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Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
Nancy Grace bitching about it right now. 10/19/2009 8:21:52 PM
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Jen All American 10527 Posts user info edit post |
Nancy Grace bitching? No chance 10/19/2009 8:27:04 PM
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Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
I just saw it on the guide and thought "Bet she's pissed about balloon boy tonight!"
Yup. 10/19/2009 8:28:27 PM
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lizrock18 All American 1072 Posts user info edit post |
Also I heard that social services is investigating domestic violence calls that were made months prior to this balloon incident. I feel bad for the kids. I hope something is done about the fruitcake parents! 10/19/2009 8:30:00 PM
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Jen All American 10527 Posts user info edit post |
Anything to get her to shut up about Caylee Anthony. On a side note I can not picture her being pleasant, ever, about anything 10/19/2009 8:32:21 PM
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Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
I imagine that the kid will have a miserable life with his parents now. If he ever complains about anything his dad will yell "WELL MAYBE IF YOU'D KEPT YOUR DAMN MOUTH SHUT OUR LIVES WOULD BE DIFFERENT!" 10/19/2009 8:32:35 PM
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Jen All American 10527 Posts user info edit post |
if you know your kid is sick enough to warrant a vomit receptacle, why not pick a different day for an interview or let him sit that one out? 10/19/2009 8:42:16 PM
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Vulcan91 All American 13893 Posts user info edit post |
Because they would never pass up a chance for publicity, and given the balloon stunt, they probably saw him puking on TV as a positive thing. 10/19/2009 8:44:08 PM
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Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
If the dad had played his cards right he would have seen the puke then jumped up and shouted HOLY FUCK! FALCON IS POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL! 10/19/2009 8:51:15 PM
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kiljadn All American 44691 Posts user info edit post |
How did TDUB miss this:
http://gawker.com/5383858/exclusive-i-helped-richard-heene-plan-a-balloon-hoax
?
Quote : | "For the first time, 25-year-old researcher Robert Thomas reveals to Gawker how earlier this year he and Richard Heene drew up a master plan to generate a massive media controversy using a weather balloon. To get famous, of course.
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Hunger for Stardom
There was something else at work, though. Oddly enough, Richard's sampling of stardom from being on Wife Swap — twice — gave him a sense of seniority in our scientific conversations. They became less and less about what I had to contribute and more and more about what Richard wanted.
And he wanted nothing more than to get another reality TV series. Richard had an ongoing dialog with someone at ABC who helped produce Wife Swap. Richard was pitching something along the lines of "MythBusters-meets-mad scientist." There would be these esoteric abstract experiments attempting to prove or disprove various theories. My job was to help him prepare a formal proposal. For each of 52 weekly episodes, to explain specifically what the subject would be, and why.
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I was very receptive to the idea of filtering esoteric science for the general population. A show would allow us to take the TV network's money and use it to fund real experimentation, to buy equipment unavailable to me as a student and an entrepreneur. We could experiment with electromagetics, crystal formation and new types of materials.
Richard, on the other hand, was often driven by ego and fame. He was all about controversy, hoping to whip up something significant enough to eliminate our reality TV competitors. He wanted episodes that would shock people and maximize his exposure. And he'd been trying for months. On several occasions, he sat down and told me he'd do whatever it took to make it happen — to win. He eventually resorted to extreme measures.
The UFO Idea (And the End of the World As We Know It in 2012)
One night, when Richard and I were sitting and talking, he brought up Wife Swap, and specifically a confrontation he had with a woman on the show who claimed to be a psychic. They very much disliked one other. Richard said, "Well, think about it. We were the 100th episode of Wife Swap. And why are we the most recognized Wife Swap family and episode? It's because of the controversy. I don't care what people say about me as a person, but the fact of the matter is that they know who I am."
And then we delved into the area of UFOs. I was reading a book on witness reports of Roswell at the time, just out of curiousity — I've never concluded whether it really took place or was an elaborate hoax. And Richard said, "how much do you want to bet we could facilitate some sort of a media stunt that would be equally profound as Roswell, and we could do so with nothing more than a weather balloon and some controversy?" (See item 16 here.)
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I clearly remember Richard telling me that, if we accomplish this, it would be the most controversial and widespread UFO news story since Roswell in 1947. (See audio at top of post.)
But he was motivated by theories I thought were far-fetched. Like Reptilians — the idea there are alien beings that walk among us and are shape shifters, able to resemble human beings and running the upper echelon of our government. Somehow a secret government has covered all this up since the U.S. was established, and the only way to get the truth out there was to use the mainstream media to raise Richard to a status of celebrity, so he could communicate with the masses.
As the weeks progressed, his theories got more and more extreme and paranoid. A lot of it surrounded 2012, and the possibility of there being an apocalyptic moment. Richard likes to talk a lot about the possibility of the Sun erupting in a large-scale solar flare that wipes out the Earth. It got to the point where he was really pressing me, saying we're running out of time, we're running out of time, the end of the world is coming. And we have to take necessary precautions to make sure that we're not among the majority that's going to be killed.
It got to the point where I was just nodding my head and going along with what he said, because it was easier than trying to debate with him. (See audio at bottom of post.)
Falcon's Fishy Flight Incident
When my friends called me about the whole balloon episode I was working. I had just moved to a new place and didn't have my television set up. I probably would never even have heard about this, except that a good friend of mine remembered me telling him about Richard several months ago. He told me, "Rob, you need to turn on the tv immediately! That Richard guy you worked with just pulled a massive publicity stunt!"
Richard's story doesn't add up. He is saying he thought Falcon was in the balloon, and that Falcon ran and hid as a result of Richard yelling at him. I've spent a lot of time with them, and Falcon is, first of all, not afraid of his father. I've never once seen Richard's children afraid of him — and I've definitely never seen Falcon go hide. He was one of the most social of the three children.
Secondly, Falcon supposedly hid in that attic in the garage. I've spent a lot of time in his garage, which has a drill press and various welding tools. It's unorganized and chaotic. There's really not so much an attic as some support beams connected with plywood. Being an adult of average height, I couldn't get up into the attic if I'd wanted to, so I don't know how a six-year-old child could have gotten up there. There's not an easy way to access that overhang. Maybe if I'd lifted that child up into the attic, he might have been able to rest up there, but not comfortably.
My doubts and concerns about that story were verified when Falcon's parents asked him on CNN, "why didn't you come out?" And Falcon said, "you guys said we did this for the show." Lights went off in my head. Bells were ringing; whistles were whistling. I said, "Wow, Richard is using his children as pawns to facilitate a global media hoax that's going to give him enough publicity to temporarily attract A-list celebrity status and hopefully attract a network." " |
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