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New games based on Balloon Boy fake-adventures hit the net
As if throwing up on national TV wasn’t bad enough, now there are a handful of Internet video games mocking Balloon Boy and his non-adventure last week in his dad’s weirdo helium balloon.
Heyzap is among websites offering Balloon Boy based games.
Its game is aptly called “Balloon Boy Game.”
The game has Falcon Heene, forever more known as ‘Balloon Boy,’ hanging from his dad’s silver helium balloon. The objective involves shooting birds and other items before they get Balloon Boy.
Balloon Boy was never in danger of being attacked by birds or anything else.
In what is being called a publicity stunt, Falcon’s parents told authorities last week that the 6-year-old had sailed a way in helium weather balloon. He was found hiding in his parent’s Colorado home.
Turns out the child was never in the balloon and popped his parents bubble during a taping of CNN’s ” Larry King Live” Thursday, Oct. 15.
In the CNN interview, Falcon said he didn’t come out of his hiding place when called because his family “did it for the show.”
Officials now say Balloon Boy’s parents cooked the whole scheme up in hopes it would land them a reality show.
Fort Collins, Colo. officials say findings will be forwarded to prosecutors next week to decide if Richard and Mayumi Heene should be charged with falsely reporting that Falcon had drifted away in a large home-built helium balloon.
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By Randy
October 21, 2009 6:22 PM | Link to this
Till they found out that the little boy was NOT in there some people were speculating that Michael Jackson had ordered take out from Heaven!
By Neumann
October 23, 2009 12:21 AM | Link to this
I heard that one. I hope the “parents” aren’t getting any of the revenue from the games. If they do, it should be put in trust for the kids’ future therapy.
By Lucy
October 23, 2009 9:38 AM | Link to this
I have never heard of a sex offender scarring a child in the same fashion these parents did. I think parents like this should be put on a public registry, forbidden to live within 1,000 feet of a school or day care, and loose all 3 of their children. I find it disgusting that they have forever labeled their own child as a pariah in society. Let’s get them license plates that read: “We abused our own child instead of yours.”