Sheriff Gives Balloon Boy's Fam the Weekend Off

1. He's doing this so he has time to sharpen up his answers. If your not lying you don't need freakin time to sit over the questions. Why does his myspace say single?

Posted at 1:42PM on Oct 17th 2009 by Sad sad

2. http://www.myspace.com/yungruk

look at this clown tryin to be hard. its like ryan jenkins meets dj am

Posted at 1:45PM on Oct 17th 2009 by jonnyBlaze80deuce

3. PRESS CONFERENCE Tonight??? This PROVES the hoax and that they want FAME more than anything! They're idiots! Worse than Octodumbass! Please don't watch or pay them any attention! I don't want to see them for the next year!

Posted at 1:43PM on Oct 17th 2009 by Terri

4. You're just giving these people what they want - publicity! Obviously the whole thing was staged so they could satisfy their weird need to press. Don't reward them for lying and putting their kids through this. Poor little boy. CPS needs to be in there somewhere. I mean, even if it isn't a hoax and they actually thought they let their son float away a la Wizard of Oz, they aren't fit parents.

And if it is a hoax, that's just wrong to make their kids to this for their own weird enjoyment.

Bad parents.

Posted at 1:43PM on Oct 17th 2009 by AngelMae

5. OMG I'm first! What an honor. Let me gloat in my glory ;p

Posted at 1:44PM on Oct 17th 2009 by Sad sad

6. Why does his myspace say single?

Posted at 1:42PM on Oct 17th 2009 by Sad sad

I have an even bigger question. Why did you check???

Posted at 1:46PM on Oct 17th 2009 by Eric

7. Ok, so what is the exact reason why this joke of a family gets this much attention???

Posted at 1:47PM on Oct 17th 2009 by say what?

8. unfreadkingbelivable. Giving them a weekend to get their story straight. What kind of law enforcement does that? Maybe the guy will trip himself up tonight. Hopefully, the farmer's whose field was ruined are getting this down, use it in court to get their losses covered.

Posted at 1:47PM on Oct 17th 2009 by katy

9. I bet this county is full of unsolved "mysteries". This sheriff is incompetent. These cops couldn't find the truth with a GPS & a search party.

Posted at 1:47PM on Oct 17th 2009 by Take A Bowel Movement In The Suggestion Box

10. Umm....IF the father Heene designed that balloon himself, then he would ABSOLUTELY KNOW, that there is NO WAY that balloon could HOLD a 40 pound KID!! PERIOD!!! Watch the launch tape on youtube, and you can clearly see that it barely has enough LIFT to lift itself! END OF STORY!!! HE KNEW!!! Anyone that flies balloons (im a balloon pilot) would know this instantly after seeing his contraption!

Posted at 1:48PM on Oct 17th 2009 by sam

11. This thing is BALLOONING out of proportion!

Posted at 1:48PM on Oct 17th 2009 by Mr. Jones

12. What's up with the Sheriff from Mayberry RFD? The weekend off? WTF??? Get in there and interrogate this idiot and make sure those kids aren't being wired to some strange invention to erase their memories.

Posted at 1:48PM on Oct 17th 2009 by Dark1

13. More time to get the story straight !!!!! Sounds good to me.

Posted at 1:49PM on Oct 17th 2009 by tina

14. What if he went back out for that press conference and Nobody showed up? I think that'd be sooooo coooool! Then he can go back inside and resume the life he doesn't have.

Next thing you know a big ole Meteor will crash into his home. Maybe his cable is hooked up the same way as the balloon; with helium and batteries? I think he caught distemper from from on those aliens.

Posted at 1:50PM on Oct 17th 2009 by R2D2

15. Gimme a break. Giving them time to put together a plausible story? Question their butts!!!!!! Incompetence at its finest.

I tell ya - I had to rotfl when I read about the question box. That dude is milking it for everything it's worth. The whole family is worthless, imo.

Maybe those boys still have a chance to become normal, productive members of society....but not with those dingleberries for parents.

Posted at 1:51PM on Oct 17th 2009 by trash collector