Proof Balloon Boy Was A Hoax Put Up For Sale

A Denver-area student is making wild claims that he worked with Richard Heene, father of the now infamous 6-year-old 'balloon boy', Falcon Heene, on a reality show that was pitched to ABC a few months back. The student alleges that the balloon boy storyline was an elaborate hoax aimed at giving credibility to the television show. Allthough the project is no longer active since being passed on by the network.

The student now wants to sell his information to the highest bidder, insisting that the National Enquirer is considering buying it for between $5,000 and $8,000 as reported in an exclusive interview by BusinessInsider.

Here's what the seller says the documents will prove:

"The show surrounds scientific experiments and controversial pranks, and one of the pranks within it -- actually several of the things within this document -- talks about very similar information to what is being debated on the air."

The seller then added:

"When Mr. Heene is denying having any involvement with this being for a show -- when the little kid, Falcon, says 'Dad, you said to go hide in the attic, we're doing this for the show' -- and then he's adamantly denying that, that's when I started cracking up because I have proof that that's not true."

The student claims that Richard Heene, never paid for the work on the TV pitch that the two worked on together from March until May 2009. The work included "business plans and proposals" to pitch to ABC. As record of the 15 hours of work, the student emailed him/herself the proposal and strongly believes that Heene is unaware that the seller is in possession of that information.

"I never would have thought it would become valuable, but at this time, this is kind of the evidence that they're looking for," the seller says.

"I'm a student, you know, so if I can get my rent paid from this it'd be awesome."

On the Today show this morning, Richard Heene denied that the televised media fiasco was a hoax.

UPDATE: 'Balloon boy' incident was hoax, sheriff says

[BusinessInsider]

Comments

[Johnny Ancich]

Here's a cartoon I recently made regarding Balloon Boy:
http://pastexpiry.blogspot.com/2009/10/cartoon-balloon-boy.html
Past Expiry Cartoon

[Sam Kaufman]

it's hard to believe that so many people believed that a 6 year old kid was still inside of this deflated balloon, even right at the end when it was barely keeping it's own weight afloat