It’s time to pay the piper.
Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene turned himself in on Monday at the Larimer County Detention Center in Colorado to begin serving his 90-day prison term.
Heene pleaded guilty in November to a felony charge of attempting to influence a public servant.
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As Kathy Griffin has yet to issue an apology for her live, on-the-air CNN f-bomb on New Year’s Eve, the network has stepped up to the plate and issued one on her behalf.
CNN producers issued a statement on Friday apologizing to viewers for Griffin’s “slip”, saying the network “regrets that profanity was used during our [...]

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UPDATE: CNN has issued an apology for the incident.
Whoops! OMG, here comes a fine for CNN from the FCC ASAP! Here’s the 411…
Kathy Griffin rang in the New Year dropping a live F-Bomb during CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast with anchor Anderson Cooper on Thursday night.
Just before the clock struck midnight, Griffin and [...]

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It was the best of time, it was the worst of times, it was 2009.  As the year draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on the events that helpd to shape the last 12 months.
That’s where JibJab comes in with their annual Year In Review – a 2-minute video rewind that covers all [...]

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Time to pay the piper, Richard Heene!
The Colorado dad who reported that his son, Falcon Heene, had floated away in a runaway balloon was sentenced to serve 90 days in jail on Wednesday for staging the elaborate hoax.  Most of that time will be on a work-release basis, however.
Mayumi Heene, the boy’s mother, does not [...]

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The parents of Falcon Heene, the ‘Balloon Boy’ who was thought to have floated away in a homemade balloon, will plead guilty tomorrow to charges related to one of the most elaborate hoaxes in modern times.
The Heenes called police in October and told them that Falcon, 6, had been taken into the sky by a [...]

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You knew it had to happen sooner or later, right? Unlike the Balloon Boy saga, this is no hoax.
You can now actually buy a Balloon Boy Halloween Costume Kit.
Now you too can enjoy all the media attention you want with Plantraco’s Balloon Boy Hoax kit. A great flying saucer that is going to put [...]

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An unidentified neighbor of the Heene family and a member of the media crew covering the Balloon Boy story got into a fight on the Heene lawn Sunday afternoon.
Here is the video footage…

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The Heene family lawyer, David Lane, is now making the rounds in the media trying to drum up support for the family. Richard Heene and the rest of the family are certainly going to face serious legal ramifications for their dramatic balloon boy stunt. Several felony charges are anticipated, including possibly child abuse.
Lane [...]

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Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden told reporters at a press conference that the balloon boy saga was in fact a hoax designed to generate publicity for a reality TV show.
“It has been determined that this is a hoax, that it was a publicity stunt and we believe we have evidence at this point to indicate [...]

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