From ABCnews.com:
Richard Heene and Mayumi Heene, the parents behind the balloon boy hoax, will be floating away to jail.
Larimer County, Colo., Court Judge Stephen Schapanski sentenced the couple behind one of the year's biggest media stunts to a total of 110 days jail and eight years probation. He also prohibited the couple from making any money off the balloon boy fiasco during that time.
Schapanski stated that Richard Heene must spend 30 days in jail beginning Jan. 11, 2010. The remaining 60 days of his 90-day sentence may be carried out under "work release," meaning he can work during the day and spend nights in prison.
"This will be supervised probation," Schapanski said about that part of the sentence. "The terms and conditions will be that Mr. Heene is in fact prohibited from receiving any form of financial benefit -- whether it be media, a book, an article he writes -- anything of that kind that stems from this incident."
The judge also ruled that Richard Heene must write a letter of apology to the community and public service agencies that were roped into the Oct. 15 stunt, perform 100 hours of community service and submit to random drug or alcohol testing.
I wasn't even going to post this, but I figured being the story behind this was posted before, this should finish it off. I'm looking forward to hearing about this family in 15 years on a "Where are They Now?" episode on VH1. Or whatever channel that plays on.
Oh, what it doesn't read is the crazy mom got 20 days.
I do like how ABC News chose to go with "floating away to jail."
ReplyDeleteNice touch.
"He also prohibited the couple from making any money off the balloon boy fiasco during that time."
ReplyDelete- Great fucking order, your Honor
Is that legal? I thought it was a First Amendment issue.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they can talk about what happened but not make money from it.
ReplyDeleteWell, this whole plan really just blew up in their faces, didn't it?
ReplyDeleteAnd I noticed the judge didn't say anything about restitution.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah thats legal, nothing to do with the First Amendment, you shouldn't be able to profit from breaking the law. Plus it is a great deterrent for any other shit bags trying to get famous/rich
ReplyDeleteThey have to pay back around $50k but Heene's lawyer says they won't pay anything until they come up with receipts on how all of that cost that much money.
ReplyDelete"Plus it is a great deterrent for any other shit bags trying to get famous/rich"
ReplyDeleteI agree.
Yeah, I saw that too DG. But I was hoping the judge would squash that idea and order restitution anyway.
ReplyDeleteSo I lost interest in this story almost immediately, why are they getting jailtime? I'm guessing the kid not being in the balloon, or hiding or whatever the hell he was doing wasn't an honest mistake?
ReplyDeleteNope, not an honest mistake. It was all a hoax for publicity.
ReplyDelete"Chief Deputy District Attorney Andrew Lewis also asked for full restitution to reimburse authorities for the cost of investigating the hoax — an amount that could exceed $50,000." MSNBC
ReplyDelete"Some of the costs broken down
Sheriff's officials are also tabulating the costs of the search, with the expectation of getting reimbursed from the Heenes, and so far the total is more than $40,000.
They estimate their department spent about $8,000 in overtime. Some $13,500 more was spent by law enforcement agencies from the nearby communities of Greeley and Weld County, along with Colorado State University and the U.S. Forest Service.
Two National Guard helicopters launched to track the craft and possibly attempt to rescue the couple's 6-year-old son, reportedly inside the balloon, cost about $16,000.
Also included in the estimate are $8,500 in damage to the field where the craft landed. Emergency vehicles rushed onto the field, and a police officer sprinted through it trying to catch up with the balloon.
The Federal Aviation Administration, for its part, recently said it conducted its own civil investigation and determined the Heenes launched an unauthorized aircraft and are subject to an $11,000 fine.
Officials rerouted planes around the balloon's flight path and briefly forced some planes to switch to a different runway for takeoff from Denver International Airport. " MSNBC
He will have to pay restitution alright
That dude doesn't even have a job. Maybe they can get those 3 loons they call kids to sell lemonade at $100 a cup to pay the bill.
ReplyDeleteOr he could send that wife of his to work in a massage parlor.
haha @ "Or he could send that wife of his to work in a massage parlor"
ReplyDeleteThanks Streets.
ReplyDeleteIdiots.
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time I was recruited by a girl who I used to go to the gym with to work at a massage parlor but after visting the place I declined the position. Actually what happened was the owner slapped my ass during the "interview" and I threatened his life, quickly left and then called the police.
ReplyDeleteDid the police actually do anything this time? You haven't had much luck with them.
ReplyDeleteI was not aware it was that kind of massage parlor, I had been told it was a "spa".
ReplyDelete"spa" can be another code for "whore house."
ReplyDeleteLast minute Christmas shopping in a retirement community tends to make a person wish Sarah Palin hadn't been lying about "Death Panels" being part of the health care bill.
ReplyDeleteNo they didn't do a damn thing at the time, but I might have started something because they started an undercover investigation shortly thereafter that lasted for 2 yrs.
ReplyDeleteYeah I know this now Spurs but at the time I was a naive 22 or 23 yr old. I really didn't know.
ReplyDeleteI turned two file boxes of copies of falsified auto loan documents over to the FBI a couple of years ago. I get called about once every couple of months.
ReplyDeleteNo big deal Streets.
ReplyDeleteI was naive at one time too. Like when I was 6.
"Elfie said...
ReplyDeleteYeah I know this now Spurs but at the time I was a naive 22 or 23 yr old. I really didn't know."
Why have I never met a "naive" 22 or 23 year old woman? Hell, I haven't ever met a naive 19 year old.
You know CBT, I really hope that health care bill bullshit passes now. Just to watch in 5 or 6 years when people are really pissed off about it. But I already decided that I'm just going to pay the fine instead of signing up for some bullshit program.
ReplyDeleteHard for me to believe you think that asshole bill is going to do any good.
I'm still naive in some ways... It's not really naivete but more wanting to believe that all people are inately good. I know this isn't the case but I enjoy wearing my rose colored glasses, everything is prettier that way :) Eternal optimist... I'm a fucking little ray of sunshine.
ReplyDelete"Why have I never met a "naive" 22 or 23 year old woman? Hell, I haven't ever met a naive 19 year old."
ReplyDeleteI know that's sarcasm, because how else could you get them to hang out with you CBT. Oh yeah, that's right.
CASH.
cause you are a fixer and a rescuer... most of those girls have had difficult lives I am sure.
ReplyDeleteA lot of them have been middle and upper middle class college girls whose daddies worked too much and were rarely around.
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ReplyDeleteon a different note, question for the resident law man:
ReplyDeleteWop, can a female employee be terminated for wearing her hair in a ponytail? fucking retarded I know.
Breezy:
ReplyDeleteThe person who set this up tried yours and the one he made (that one I sent you). But because I chose a crap template to begin with, it didn't work. What I was going to do is swap both of them out, because I liked them both.
So I'm either going to have to figure out a different template to use, or finally switch over to Wordpress.
And I'll check out that blackroc album.
ReplyDeleteOh, and check back here shortly. I should have something good to post soon.
ReplyDeleteSounds good. Wordpress is the way to go. I can make you a badass theme if you need it. My fee is pretty small. You should start in a test environment so you don't mess things up. Email me if you need any help, and if you have WOP's email, let him know that I have that question for him.
ReplyDeleteAll right. Sounds good. Is it the same e-mail? Like I wrote before, I e-mailed you a few weeks back. And I'll e-mail Wopness now.
ReplyDeleteYeah, same email. I got busy and didn't follow up with my emails like I should have, sorry about that.
ReplyDeleteThat's cool. No big deal. I just e-mailed Wopness.
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ReplyDeleteSorry about that. Take a look at the post now. Just click on the title of the post.
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ReplyDeleteYes, it does actually.
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