I hope there is some kind of large judgement against them so the state can basically take away any money that they try to make off of this. Any shows, interviews, books, magazine articles, internet stuff, anything that might produce revenue for this family should go into the state agencies that wasted money pursuing this. Can you imagine if someone attempting a rescue got hurt/killed themselves?
[rquoter]..."There's gotta be a way to dissipate the tornado," he[ene] said as he described one of his inventions. "Well, this is the tornado cannon."... Heene was always trying to get people to invest money in his storm-chasing exploits, including riding a motorcycle into the middle of a tornado, Caravello said...[/rquoter] Science!
The most crucial role to cast would obviously be that of the Tool. Perhaps Colin Farrell or Russell Crowe, maybe Tom Cruise even.
I think it would be awesome if they could cast Tobey Maguire in a cameo...to be a random passerby who looks up...points at the balloon...and says: "that's no moon."
The guy seems like a loon who has watched "Twister" and "Phenomenon" one too many times. He's the hybrid family version of the Bill Paxton character and John Travolta character. Has he actually invented anything that is worth a **** or is he the guy who always has that great idea that noone wants to listen to because all they have are great idea after great idea. "Hey, wouldn't it be great if...?" Yea...note to self: "Avoid Bob the Inventor and Motor-mouth King for the rest of this party." It's like: "Hey kids...wanna do something neato? Why don't we try to get this motocross bike to go in the vortex of a tornado...with a person on it! Wouldn't that be fun?". Any kid in his right mind would be like "that'll work...let's do this". It's up to the parent to be the reasonable one in this scenario. I'm afraid to ask what he gets his kids for x-mas. "Hey...Falcon(er)...I made you some falcon wings. Later, you can put them on and we will launch you in flight off the roof! And, this may be our ticket to our own reality show! A double win!". That is the impression I get when I look at a photo of this guy...an inventor wannabe that puts his children in danger cause he has foolish ambitions. Or, maybe he's just the Dad every kid always wanted? The next best thing to Willy Wonka minus the Chocolate Factory.
You know, if he just never mentioned anything about his kid in the balloon, he would have gotten his reality show. It would have been a minor blurb across the nation that there was a saucer-like object floating around Colorado. That's what confuses me in this situation. Maybe he was dumb enough to think his kid was in the balloon, which is what seems to go along with his story. The "hoax" was just letting off a "UFO," not involving the kid. He may in fact be dumb enough to believe his kid was somehow in that balloon. Maybe I can be pointed to a direct article that says he knew where his kid was the entire time. What the kid said about the show was still accurate -- letting the balloon float away was for a proposed show, but the kid didn't know how his words were going to be construed. He's six, with an idiot for a father. This sheriff seems like an attention w**** as well. His strong statements have movie deal all over it.
That balloon doesn't look like it could carry 20 pounds much less a 6 year old boy. I wonder if the sheriff's dept. will use that in their case against the family ?
Which even makes the first few pages of this thread even more hilarious when people were saying the door to the craft wasn't breached. What door? lol.
