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Video: Someone’s been a bad, bad boy

posted at 8:07 pm on October 15, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Richard Henne told reporters gathered outside his house that the experimental craft was designed so people could pull out of the garage and float above traffic on the way to work.

Falcon had been getting into the box that holds all the batteries, and Henne said he had yelled at him for doing that…

Falcon said: “I was in the attic. He scared me and he yelled at me. That’s why I went into the attic, because I thought I would get in trouble.”

Henne said the area above the garage is not like a true attic, but rafters and rough planks with drywall and PVC pipes sticking up. He said Falcon climbed up the pipe to get to his hiding place.

I guess that last bit explains how the cops missed him. Watch the clip, though: It sounds like the brothers deliberately punked their parents by videotaping the kid crawling into the balloon box as part of their story that he floated away. If this is a simple case of the little one panicking and hiding because he was afraid of being yelled at, what’s the brother’s excuse for lying?

As for how they found him, imagine this scene: “Mayumi [his mother] was reportedly sitting on the couch when her son walked into see her.” Exit quotation: “Anyone else think the whole nation fascinated by a hot air balloon that turned out to be empty just might be a little symbolic?”

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Update: Here’s a longer clip. They’re an … interesting family.

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Just watching this wackjob family on Larry King Live, with Wolf Blitzer guest hosting. Wolf asks the boy why he was up in the attic for 4 hours….the boy, Falcon, hesitates then says,”Cause my Dad said it was a big show”. Not surprisingly if you saw Celebrity Jeopardy, Wolf totally misses this and goes on to the next question. The dad had a look of shear terror. This happened about ten minutes ago. I give it until noon tomorrow until this whole thing unravels and child services intervenes. Sad.

kriscoleman on October 15, 2009 at 9:51 PM

Update…. Wolf comes back to the question. The boys brother whispers, “Don’t say”. This parents should be locked up.

kriscoleman on October 15, 2009 at 9:57 PM

I think there are too many holes in this story and the family hedged when Wolf asked about the videotape of the day’s events that the oldest son had shot. The father dodged the question completely. These people are bizarre. Wolf asked about why Falcon said “we did this for the show” and why he was in the attic hiding for 4 hours while this whole affair is going on. The father is now acting defensive toward Wolf for asking the question. Henne said he is “appalled” that Wolf would question how the events unfolded. Wolf said he was trying to debunk the allegations that this was a hoax. Sounds like a hoax to me. The nation was punked by these kids.

Philly on October 15, 2009 at 10:01 PM

They should pay all the $$$ used for rescue. They don’t “ground” their children. They will have a talk.

Geez!

nor on October 15, 2009 at 10:04 PM

What did Rush say today? Something like

Welcome to the age of Obama.

ORconservative on October 15, 2009 at 10:07 PM

kriscoleman on October 15, 2009 at 9:51 PM

Wow, the kid said this? You gotta ask yourself how all the kids would be able to keep this ruse going for as long as they did. These kids clearly don’t have any discipline, if they were put up to do this, they’re going to be spilling soon. Sounds like they maybe already are.

The one line from the dad was priceless – “No we don’t ground our kids.” Well, forgive me for intruding on your lives but perhaps it is time to consider making some adjustments to your approach, dad.

stldave on October 15, 2009 at 10:10 PM

This family is about to get one hell of a bill.

ORconservative on October 15, 2009 at 10:12 PM

Something doesn’t seem right about this story. Doesn’t pass the smell test.

RedbonePro on October 15, 2009 at 8:20 PM

Ding, ding, ding…!

Nutjob family with a history of looking for attention and a story that still just doesn’t seem, uh, “right.” IF we could only find a half-way competent investigative reporter (I know, I know) with a little gumption and something resembling common sense (again, I know) then we might get somewhere with this thing.

Hey, a guy can dream can’t he?

JoeinTX on October 15, 2009 at 10:15 PM

Papa Henne’s in trouble.

OhioCoastie on October 15, 2009 at 10:28 PM

Typical Obama-voters….

Norwegian on October 15, 2009 at 10:35 PM

Here’s a link to the video:

http://tv.popcrunch.com/balloon-boy-falcon-keene-we-did-this-for-a-show-wolf-blitzer-cnn-interview-video/

I am convinced this was a planned stunt. The kid wasn’t on script and the dad did not sound genuine to me.

JoeinTX on October 15, 2009 at 10:37 PM

canopfor on October 15, 2009 at 9:42 PM

I’d not sure of a site but I’ll look for one.

Thanks for the link.

hawkdriver on October 15, 2009 at 11:35 PM

canopfor on October 15, 2009 at 9:42 PM
I’d not sure of a site but I’ll look for one.

Thanks for the link.

hawkdriver on October 15, 2009 at 11:35 PM

hawkdriver: Stay safe,sweet dreams,goodnight in Afghanisan!:)

canopfor on October 15, 2009 at 11:41 PM

I’m back in the dirt and already scheduled for a whole weeks worth of ops.

hawkdriver on October 15, 2009 at 9:30 PM

ops = other people suffer. Not you. Stay safe.

platypus on October 16, 2009 at 12:53 AM

If this is indeed the hoax that it appears to be, the family should not only be fined for the rescue attempt costs, they should also be billed for any and all disruptions to the airline industry.

If this contraption disrupted airline schedules by intruding on the flight lanes, that causes large disruptions, and delays.

NavyspyII on October 16, 2009 at 6:32 AM

So, they don’t ground their children… I’m assuming they don’t spank them… And this dad is trying to build a Jetsons-esque travel vehicle out of a giant Jiffy Pop balloon and enough electricity around it to create a plasma field? Good grief, this guy sounds like a looney; not that I’d expect much else from Ft. Collins (which I love a mere 45 minutes away from, God help me).

I actually flew out of the Denver International Airport yesterday and found out from listening to a few passengers on my flight that they did indeed reroute air traffic for a brief 60-90 minute period in defference to the search for this boy. Ugh. Here’s hoping this family has to foot the bill for that bit of nonsense. That’s a couple hours worth of layovers and schedule hiccups for a thousand plus people, all because some boy decided to hide in an attic and the authorities/family failed to search out every room in their house before sending a giant crew on a county-wide ground search.

This whole story is just hilariously overblown… was from the start, to be honest.

Jockolantern on October 16, 2009 at 8:02 AM

*love = live

Living so close to Ft. Collins has its benefits… but the presence of Colorado looney-toons is certainly not one of them.