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Just when you thought you'd heard the last of the Balloon Boy family, the Heenes comes flying right back at ya.
Richard and Mayumi Heene, who grabbed headlines in 2009 after faking the story that their son Falcon was flying in a balloon that looked an awful lot like a UFO, are trying to auction off the craft, the Coloradan in Fort Collins, Colo., reports.
The Heenes, now living in Florida, have posted a video in hopes of selling the "flying saucer" to raise money for tsunami and earthquake relief in Japan, and say they'd be happy with a $1 million bid.
"Recently we went on the Internet and we saw that over 18,000 people had perished over in Japan because of that tsunami," Richard Heene says in the video. "Well, we thought, how could we help out? We can't with our hands, but we have something that we think could help. What we want to do is put the flying saucer that we had built ... up for auction for charity."
Mayumi Heene, who was born in Japan, also appears in the video, and her husband says the family won't make money off the sale. Richard Heene served 30 days in jail, while Mayumi Heene spent 20 days in the slammer following the balloon hoax.
"They just want to do what is right," California attorney Perry Rausher, who is working with the Heenes, tells the Coloradan, calling the couple "very good people."
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6-02-2011 @ 2:47PM
WILL said...How about half the money for Japan and the other half for the USA ?
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6-02-2011 @ 3:05PM
William said...Might be good people, but they are still wanting all the attention they can get. Otherwise know as glory seekers.
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6-02-2011 @ 3:24PM
Steven said...Who do they think would buy that piece of crap for $10.00??? All they want is money, they are strapped for cash, he canot find work after alerting the entire world that he is messed up in the head. They did it to themselves acting like foolish children. Time to grow up and earn your own living. As if anyone believes you are going to hand all proceeds over to a charity. Donate the balloon to charity and let them auction it off after a contract stating the donation is 100%. Na, that won't ever happen.
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6-02-2011 @ 3:28PM
James said...What a crock of crap. These people need to go away. Should donating the money be a genuine gift, why not give it to the US with all the distruction from disasters that has happened here. Who gives a rat's A, if she is from Japan. If she wants to help them out, she needs to get her butt over there and do something. She lives here now and the US should be her priority, vs Japan. Hope they don't get a dime for it.
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6-02-2011 @ 9:54PM
Clive said...I agree with you 100%
6-02-2011 @ 3:48PM
red said...Freaks!!!!Give us a break...
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6-02-2011 @ 3:38PM
joe t said...Are you spelling their name correctly? Are you sure it's H-e-e-n-e? I understood from the very first that it was H-i-e-n-e -- or some synonym thereof.
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6-02-2011 @ 4:31PM
Bojangles said...I will give him a thousand dollars for it if he can prove how much weight it can actually lift to me.
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6-02-2011 @ 4:32PM
Susan said...These two are absolutely disgusting.
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6-02-2011 @ 4:34PM
lindie said...they are crazy people. i would not buy it. not worth my time.
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6-02-2011 @ 4:38PM
Bojangles said...Let me restate that last comment. I will give him 1000 dollars for it if he can prove to me it was able to lift his total childs weight off the ground at that time of the incident.
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6-02-2011 @ 6:17PM
invmartyc said...Mom and Dad will do anything for a buck! A million dollars for that? Well, whatever they get should be taken away from them to help cover the tax dollars wasted due to their hoax. Like they would give a dime to Japan!
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6-03-2011 @ 1:08PM
Derek said...I think we should all donate some money if this guy builds another flying saucer and him and his wife fly to Japan and stay there.
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6-02-2011 @ 9:01PM
janine said...What proof whould there be that the $$ would actually go to any charity. Especially if the fool who'd buy it paid cash to THEM.
Sounds like another one of their schemes.
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6-02-2011 @ 7:18PM
Tannis Winter said...This is positively the most disgusting use of 15 minutes of fame ever! They should just GO AWAY QUIETLY. We don't care. If you want to help Japan, go there and physically start helping. Or closer to your home, help Haiti. Why in the world have they even kept this thing? We don't care. Please no more publicity to these morons.
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6-02-2011 @ 7:57PM
BarbaraAnn said...I know all this couple is doing this for is to get their mugs, yet again, into the public eye, but at least this time, those in need will benefit from it. If anyone bids on the baloon that is, "IF"
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6-02-2011 @ 8:09PM
Joe Papierz Jr said...I hope the authorities are watching carefully and will see that any
money received by this clown and his wife ends up in a Japanese Relief fund and not in their pockets.
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6-02-2011 @ 8:08PM
macie said...First - Parent Dish - How about getting the SPAM OFF this comment board? Aside from that - it was said in court that Heene's wife is Japanese BUT also an illigal alien. Doesn't anyone remember that? As far as raising money, HOW many people in THIS country have died recently from storms and HOW many are STILL suffering? FOUR people killed in my state yesterday! And they want to help Japan? Re-phrase that - They are SAYING that they want to help someone other than themselves??
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6-02-2011 @ 8:17PM
Joe Papierz Jr said...Richard and Mayumi Heene should be in jail. I think this is just another hoax. I hope some law enforcement agency has access to the Heene bank accounts and can make sure any cash received is directed to the Japanese relief effort not the Heene's next vacation.
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6-03-2011 @ 12:07AM
Burr said...I hope the State of Colorado sues them for any money they might make in the sale in order to recover the money they had to spend on that farce!
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