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  • did no one think that that baloon couldnt possibly lift up anyone?

  • i want that air ballon...reminds me of a ufo...

  • This is made fake. Thanks to the little kid who just said everything that needed. LOL. He probably got a spank by his father when they got home. I feel bad for that little kid. He has a mother and a father who are fake and who can not act at ALL.

  • Idiotic hoax! I knew it right away that it had to be a hoax! : )

  • People will belive anything some little kid says, but he is a damn good actor.

  • Don't play in helium balloons children you could turn out like falcon's parents.

  • "I didn't want to come out because he was going to beat me and dump my lifeless body in the river". What a good father.

  • Dude it looks like stove top popcorn!

  • fuck you falcon! fake ballon bitch

  • About discussions about if or not the balloon would actually manage to lift the boy you can do some easy calculations. The balloon apparantly contained 28 Cubic meters of Helium. That would give the balloon a Lift Force of 354,7 Newton (around 36 KG) Though, to get the "actual" lift we have to take the weight of both the structure and the Helium, Helium density = 0,18 kg/meter 3. Weight = 5 KG. Construction Weight = 8,2 KG. Total lift = 22,8 KG. So yes, I guess it could lift the boy.

  • Though, when looking at the balloon airbourne it seems like 30 % of the helium is gone, this would of had made the hoax obvious at the time if people allready knew all those numbers :)

  • it was fake

  • About time they got put in confinement, WHO CHASES TORNADOES WITH THEIR KIDS?!

  • lmao well im happy Bruce Campbell got some publicity

  • Lol Big Deal out of a Small Thing First of all they made everyone think he was in there thinking no one would gfind it when the balloon landing then when it did the person who found it saw no one in it and when falcons name was called he didnt come out because he was olny following his fathers simple orders "its just for show" so falcon went and hid when the balloon took off the dad should have been arrested any agrees or disagree reply back

  • It's like a very bad Brendan Frasier role!

  • classic americans they think that a boy could get in a balloon in the attic and fly away 1. hes in an attic u cant fly outdoors in there and 2. the weight of him would keep him on the ground 

  • @halo3e2w1q lmao? how do you know the kdis weight could keep the balloon on the ground?? and the balloon wasnt in the attic... but nice try anyway. im sure you felt smart for a little bit

  • @jeanismohamed 1. you spelt kids wrong dumbass and 2. the speed of which the balloon is going would not be possible with a kid or anyone over 7 or 8 pounds.

  • i thought they he got in a basket not the actual baloon but yeh, i dont think it would carry him still its kinda funny to me lol :D but very serious -_-

  • think about it if he was in the balloon which is impossible to get in..he wuld be to heavy for that paper thin balloon to even carry!

  • how the hell wuld he even get IN the ballon 

  • Could Boy in Balloon Drama Not Be a Hoax?

  • has anyone noticed you cant get in the balloon.......

  • that is right falcons dad just knew he was not gonna be in the big balloon he did it to be on tv

  • failtron2000 smells fail

  • those of you who acuse america and thinks it is a hoax look at tis non patriots not a HOAX

  • oh these children)))

  • gee now that's a good question.... Boy trapped in a runaway balloon???? Sure sounds legit.

  • did balloon die?

  • if you look up douchebag on wikipedia, you'll see a picture of Richard Heene

  • he later said after he became a youtube hit that it was fake during an interveiw

  • Falcons dad just wants to be famous

  • this is so fake!

  • richard is a douche

  • LMAO

  • i bet it was all richards plan

  • is the mother a japanese...????

  • yes

  • Richard Heene =classic example of a Baboon

  • maybe his son falcon just wanted to fly lol

  • lol it was ^_^

    teehee

  • because hollywood does not make a movie about these people would succeed

  • this is one of the few occasions where i will say this,

    "FAKE!!!"

  • there trying to fool 2 countrys and possibly others i am speaking of america and canada(i'm in canada) they think they can outsmart us it's obvious it's a hoax and they're still trying. even their 6 year old son said: "it was for the show" is this family that dumb? they try to outsmart us and they don't even have the brains to figure out how to beat a blind monkey in a drag race.kinda sad...some people like them are so dumb....

  • what attention whores. do they really think they can fool an ENTIRE country?

  • yea when you say an entire country you mean america...but dude theres also canada right there saying an entire country (just america) it's like saying fuck canada they don't know. i mean think about it.

  • the Irony is that i am also Canadian, Montreal Baby! but back to the point your right practically the whole world was watching. my cousins in France saw it too.

  • yay montreal? cool i'm in Ontario!

  • dont you see they wanted to make the ballon look like a ufo just to be famous

  • IT IS FAKE

  • what a big IDIOT

  • If anyone belives this faked episode they must be very very crazy.did you here how fake they cried and said sorry to the boy. i bet that they told the poor boy to act!

  • watching this video here in ILIGAN CITY, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES

    famous for MARIA CRISTINA FALLS power source of HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER here

    Philippines with Hydro electrcity????????? WoW!

  • omg, haha I remember them on wife swap!

    The dad was always psycho and yelling.

  • DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT! I EXPECTED A DEAD KID IN THERE BECAUSE THE HUMIN BODY CAN'T BREATHE HELIUM (that's what the balloon was full of) FOR A WHILE!

    DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!

  • fuck this family attention seeking ass niggaz

  • fucking assholes!

  • dumbass parentes need to go jail and have the prisoners stick a balloon up there ass !!! DUMBASS!!!!!!

  • World hide and seek champion= Anne Frank (2 years)

    Runner up= Falcon Heene (50 minutes)

  • lol Look at the mom "crying" at :52

  • And the Oscar goes to...(opening envelope)..... the Heene Family for Worst Acting!!!

    (The "Worst Acting" category is new)

    The Balloon itself wins for "Best Supporting Role".

    And Falcon wins "Most Likely To Get A Spanking Award".

  • @KingofPepsi lol even on the wife swap epeisode. the bloke was acting clearly what a dick he is an awful man with a fake life , he wanted more fame and just wanted to be on tv

  • Man, this shit fake!! This guy and his crazy ching ching wife need to be arrested and charged. And that raggedy ass ballon wouldn't have held that funky mongrel kid anyway!!!! Fuck the Heene family!! Attention whores!!!

  • I knew that guy was loco! Look at him he's crazy.

  • Pa, looks like my buddy Dom .. from High School .. he was always lookin' to make a fast buck .. is that you Dom .. u'r still pullin' the same crap , I see !

  • Has anyone else noticed that Falcon was 'FOUND' only after the balloon was found empty? Is it a coincidence?If the balloon has stayed up for days what would have happened to the poor kid/?t It's so sad that the father doesn't seem to realize he made a fool out of himself and is still trying to lie and lie. Will he ever admit it was a hoax? Tune in next week for the exciting cliff-hanger on the Balloon Saga!Part 2!

  • ok first of all... how the FUCK can that ballon like that hold up a six year old? and wtf obviously this was a hoax. there's a difference between calling out someones name and yelling at someone. shit people are bad liers these days lol

  • Hmmm. Falcon says he went into the attic/stayed in the attic because his dad was yelling...as in, he thought his dad was yelling AT him, not just calling him...does that mean, he thought Dad would yell more if he came out too soon (and spoiled the hoax) or that Dad gets mad a lot in general, or maybe both of the above? Just wondering.

  • The kids definitely don't need to be tried as adults (and the electric chair is for murderers, wolfleash...I hope you were joking about that part!). But...yeah, the sheriff should at least talk to them about why not to do stuff like that even if your parents tell you to...not just let them off totally and automatically just because they're kids.

    I actually thought that the dad was fairly good at acting. And that the kids looked so mischievous you could easily think it was all their own idea.

  • Dad's a tool.. that chocked up voice.. and quick kiss and hug he gave to falcon is BS

  • I don't think Falcon and the other two boys should be let off the hook. They need to be tried as adults and serve harsh prison sentences to show that America is tuff on crime. I'm sure there's even a Republican politician

    (Palin?) out there who could deliver us Falcon Heeney to the electric chair. If we don't, then we are pussified like they rapped about

  • bull shit! THE DAD IS A BAD AT ACTING!you can see at 0:46 that the crying or whatever has no tears and he look like he is trying to make himself look like he is crying. THEEY ARE FULL OF BULL SHIT!

    what has the world come to?

    stupid investigators. WHAT ELSE COULD "you had said we did this for a show." mean?! NOTHING BUT AS SAID!!!

  • Moron dad

  • Retarded kids

  • hes appauled that we suggest anything by what we say.... im appauled for the fact he lied for attention... big deal one man wont change my life

  • "u scared the heck out of me." what a freak! there're too many hyprocrites that make this country miserable.

  • attention whores

  • THOES PARENTS ARE AZZES.

  • this is the stupidist thing i have ever seen be such a big deal in the media! who gives a fuck about these nobodies! trying to get attention. the great Captain Lou Albano passed away, he should be the news.

  • yeh, but the news must appeal to the target audience, and unfortunately, the target audience is stupid as shit.

  • God......this was hoax.

  • mt mexican brothers, we have a new way into america now!

  • lol whut if he did that just piss of his dad hehehe

  • haha them parents are probably so embarrised with there pathetic selfs and they get what they deserve probably also gonna get some nice ass fines too lol

  • god i love that kid, he tells the truth

  • every kid tells the truth. It's not possible for them to lie properly. That's why when they DO lie, it's so obvious they aren't telling the truth. Kids are full of innocence.

  • yeah totally true

  • yessir. I remember in Kindergaten LOOOOOONGGGG ago i lied about hitting someone. I said I wanted to pick up my pencil and when I got up my hands flew and softly hit him in the face. The kid was bleeding through his nose. Teacher KNEW i lied and I got in trouble. I got in so much trouble that day that there was no power rangers for 2 months and half my toys were given away. No video games for 3 weeks. I remember this so well because my parents were SOOOOO mad and I cried SOOOOO much lol :P

  • LMAO

  • When i was in kindergarden i bit myself as hard as i could till i almost blead which left deep marks and told the teacher some other kid did it. She belived it and i got his toy that kid is jsut retarded lol..

  • LOLZ evil kindergarten moment much? lol :P

  • wat good acting skills

  • How pathetic.

  • This was a sham and a scam from the get-go! This egotistical, opportunistic moron has himself in so much doggie-doo right now he'll never live it down - and the shame about it is he used his kids to try to promote himself - disgusting!

  • I move that the term a "Hoax" be forever changed to a "Heene".

  • Do they not follow this family's history? This family was on one of those Wife Swap shows on ABC.

  • i bet all this was the MAIL ORDER BRIDE's idea and the idiot albino husband just went along with it. I'm so terribly sorry for their FUCKED UP off springs. they're gonna go EMO on both their asses when they hit their teens.

  • i love your brilliant usage of caps lock.

  • lol what ever man.

  • you did? Enjoy having a visit from the FBI.

  • i seen it !!!

  • Parents should go to jail and get charged for all the resource spent because of their lies. It will send a message to anyone else with ideas of causing a hoax to receive fame from it for what ever reason!

  • HA HA! They had their 15 minutes of tv fame.Sure

    as hell wasn't worth it! The dad is a pathetic liar

    and a moron.Now it's time to face the music! Dumb Ass Fool!

  • man u can tell str8 up that this is bullshit and horrible acting

  • fucking gold digger asian bitch

  • Parents will get arrested and kids will go into foster homes.

  • terrible acting guys, im sorry a shouted at em, but we got em (crying)

  • fucking parents seeking publicity

  • That dad is a douch nozzle.

  • That "Home Made Balloon" Can Be Bought On The Internet. Its Not Home Made... Fucking Hoax.

  • I HATE THE DAD!!! Ommmgggg this is pissing me off so much that a family would actually do that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope the dad reads this because your a DUMB ASS you don't deserve a wife and everyone in the world hates u...don't u get it now u f-cking retarted dad EVERYONE HATE U!!!! ps stop beating your child!!!!!!!!!!! I hate you sooo much u faggot dad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!

  • lol faggot dad?

  • This has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with mental illness. Richard and Mayaumi need serious therapy. Those boys are probably so confused right now.

  • hahahahah i knew it i knew it hahaha stupid fucks

  • you guys are such stupid liers haha 250,000$ fine dips

  • When are these news stations going to admit what an ass these people made of them and most of white america ??? I'll be watching Good Morning America and the Today Show !!!

  • I'm not sure what race got to do with it?? I'm black and live in a black neighborhood and most felt wrongly duped as well.

  • I FUCKED THE KIDDD IN THE ASS!

  • lol

  • ahh MJ returns ehh?

  • its obviously the hoax. the family is crazy all they want is publicity, they called the tv station before the police. and their kids have a rap video

  • CPS is taking their kids!

  • So for a kid of 40 pounds it would take 3-4 balloons that size to lift him. Not to mention the fact that the balloon itsself was not even fully inflated. I could go on and on........

  • I read somewhere the balloon could lift as much as 80 pounds :S

  • The thing that really supprises me more than anything else is that no one has picked up on the fact that this balloon could not have lifted a child that size off the ground. How so you ask? Well for one thing helium does not have that kind of lifting capacity. That kid could have stood on the ground and held that balloon with a piece of kite string. For instance a weather balloon about that size has a lifting capacity of about 10-15 pounds.

  • Don't cry Richard!!!! :( We beleive you.

    Don't let CNN and the whole usa put you down...we know you wish he had been in that balloon...maybe next time

  • This poor innocent family needs to be with their son who was found alive and well....

  • yeah well if you ask me the dad needs to be touatgh a lesson.he loves attention so musch he woul enainger his family pathetic dad

  • How in the fuck could you say such a thing.. Only minorities would make something like this a hoax... This family deserves a public APOLOGY...........

  • how could YOU say succh a thing minoraties you racist im latino biacth

  • CAN ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME WQHATS GOING ON?! i dont get all this ballon boy stuff what is going on?!

  • These people obviously have no marketable skills to go get a real job, so they have to rely on dumb Americans to make them famous. Hey Heene family, no one cares about your stupid meaningless life!!! GO AWAY!!!

  • it was unbeliavable that little boy made

    him selve n his family famouses

    i think he's really smart child

  • The dad should go to the white house and get a job cause he managed to knock out hannity and beck in one shot!

  • wouldn't the police tell the family to search the house first

  • not if the family said they had searched the house already. The kids brother also said he was in the balloon.

  • Exactly. And the balloon is very light. There's way no that the balloon would support the child weight.

  • THIS IS WHAT THE FATHER WANTED HE WANTED ATTENSION ITS ALL OVER EVERYWHERE NOW! HE GOT WHAT HE WANTED AND WE KEEP ON GIVING HIM WHAT HE WANTS! WERE PAYING ATTENSION TO HIM. he seems abusive, im sorry but he does for a six year old to be affraide to come out of an attick because of his father, someone help that poor child, i think its all a houx though,!

  • well not tought a eough if the boy spelled the beans

  • They should NOT get paid falcon said it was for a show i can under stand it did the dad get in trouble i hope so. well i don't think the mom had anything to do with it[she could have] i feel bad for the kids. they got caught in the middle of a hoax! i mean come on the dad wants to famous or something. wife swap 2 times i think hes very dumb. so suck it up.

  • this is what bad economy can force people to do...

  • The taxpayers better NOT have to pay for ANY of this senseless, time consuming hoax!! A waste of time for ALL officials involved: the FAA, the entire United States media attention, Colorado's police/sheriff's departments, Emergency Departments, etc... tally up the whole cost to pay department of security involved photographing/videoing this whole fake ordeal and send the bill to THE PARENTS!!! 

    The father called 911 to report this? Who launched the balloon?

  • child abuse! where? is DSS!

  • This is pathetic people.The father is ACTING..............this is clearly a scam.

  • i saw a show about an 11 year old who wanted to fly using balloons and they needed like 100 times as many balloons

  • How convience, the balloon was acidently realease when the boy was inside. Than family Call t.v station before dialling 911...

  • big lying jerks

  • haha snapped out daddy

  • Busted!

    Someones got a big bill coming...DADDY HOAXER!

  • 0:48 shows his dad not looking aat the camera

    after he looks up and his face is dry no tears

    FAKE

  • there putting the kids in such a bad position

  • it's unbeliavable unreal surrealistic what people can do for money but this is no surprise.

  • THIS IS MADNESS!

  • Madness? THIS IS SPARTA!

  • retards

  • Anyone can see it was a HOAX and they MUST be charged. Family of Fake Fame. The kid let it slip- "it was all a show"

  • Fucking arseholes they did it hoping to get rich

  • i hate falcon and his brothers, the mom is a freak but the dad would be funny on a show risking his life or something but thats bout it

  • are you out of your mind? the dad's the worst one.

  • i said risking his life, but falcons a bitch

  • Ok, this is OUTRAGEOUS!!! A kid would not say "we did this for a show" if he had not been asked by his parents to do that! How PATHETIC and immoral to manipulate children like this to get on TV!! God only knows who else was in on it as well! Even their tears were fakey - their crying was totally unrealistic and fake.

    If a real parent went through this real situation, they would have a nervous breakdown! They would be an emotional wreck & u would know it was authentic! These people r liars!!!

  • This guy doesn't even rate amateur scientist~ believes 100% kid was in balloon!

    Their OWN HOME VIDEO PROVES OTHERWISE!

    @ the Launch, The balloon isn't inflated enough to be taught! It's FLIMSY, collapsing & FLOATY, NO WAY could support a 60 lb kid!

    The parents are LIARS! THEY BUILT THAT BALLOON, THEY KNEW IT'S CAPABILITIES & ACCESSIBILITY & CAPACITY.

    Even a science - physics challenged numbskull with 0 experience can deduce THAT much.

    They are SOOO in trouble! JAIL, RESTITUTION for starters

  • this is a hot mess! people in charge should be held accountable. this was stupid. if ya have all those people looking? cant they search the house? cant they? seriously!!!!!!!!!

  • Nothing is for sure here but the parents' reactions when the kid says it's for a show tell something. If he only put up a video of his balloon here on Youtube he'll never get such attention. Now he did it. Who next to top it?

  • I read a news report on this. It said the family had been trying to get their own show on TV. They had been on "wife swap" and later tried to get on a show with TLC. My guess is that they did this so that they could get some media attention. It goes along with what the kid said on a another vid.

  • if i saw that ballon that lokoed like a ufo id shoot it down and call the military heh. lol good thing i didnt live ner colorodo or id be fined BIGTIME

  • kid coulda been thinking he was doing the interview for a show

  • UFO HE and his kid look like aliens

  • I love it. All you need to know about this family is that the family "has twice been on the reality tv show Wife Swap."

  • i had seen another video about this and as you can see it was a hoax!!! the little boy said that they even did this for a show. He said that he was in the attic!!! The father is probably just trying to show off his balloon! how can you lie about your child being in a balloon when he was in the attic!!!

  • Such a hoax. The kid even said on the interview that they did it for s