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Richard Heene: My Son's Like a Rocket, Man

Posted Oct 20th 2009 8:20AM by TMZ Staff

Richard Heene thought about sending one of his kids flying through the air at high, uncontrollable speeds before -- though the first time, he didn't actually stage an elaborate hoax around the idea.

Richard Heene
TMZ has obtained a clip of Heene's Internet show -- which he also sold on DVD -- called "The Psyience Detectives." Heene often put his kids on the show, which featured Richard trying out his various crack pot scientific theories. His wife Mayumi also served as an editor.

In this particular clip, Richard shoots a 60lb rocket into the air and shouts, "60 pounds! That's like launching one of my little children" ... foreshadowing faux-flying-Falcons to come.

Unlike the balloon, Heene had full FAA approval for this launch.

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1. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 12:25AM on Oct 20th 2009 by Simone

2. Laughing like a crazy person. Douche-bag of the year award for rich henne.

Posted at 12:30AM on Oct 20th 2009 by Jim

3. This family is getting all the publicity they have been seeking for all these years. But, is it good or bad for them???? I don't have an answer yet.

Posted at 12:42AM on Oct 20th 2009 by Simone

4. Im no genius or anything, but arnt you guys just giving them what they want? More publicity, more "reality".

They wanted fame and apparently they are getting it.
Your adding fuel to the flame.
Even if it is trash about them, thats reality tv.

By keeping their name in the news, we are just giving them what they want, we are making them popular, which is what their goal was in the first place.

I hope its just 15 minutes of fame.

Posted at 12:53AM on Oct 20th 2009 by Cynicalkitty

5. OMG, can we move on now?

Posted at 1:04AM on Oct 20th 2009 by Yawn

6. Wasting thousands of dollars trying to seek publicity is an outrage. I hope he pays every dime back spent trying to rescue this child. Reality tv is going over the top and he will probably get his own show now meaning more publicity hounds will try to to his stunt. Then one day it will be real and everyone will ignore it thinking its just another hoax.

Posted at 1:10AM on Oct 20th 2009 by scott stuiut

7. I hope they make this autistic-asperger syndrome SOB pay for this. Lock the son of a bitch up and throw away the f'n key!

Posted at 1:15AM on Oct 20th 2009 by ABB

8. Notice his kids are not wearing seat belts. How terrible.

Posted at 1:24AM on Oct 20th 2009 by sohaila

9. I agree with cynicalkitty..stop giving these crackpots the publicity they want....enough of them already !!!

Posted at 1:26AM on Oct 20th 2009 by momof3

10. Richard Heene reminds me of Kurt Russell in that 80's movie called Overboard with Goldie Hawn. He looks and acts like the character in that movie.

Posted at 1:28AM on Oct 20th 2009 by Holly

11. Hot For Heene

Posted at 1:32AM on Oct 20th 2009 by Science Defective

12. I noticed that seat belt thing too... f'ing lame...

Posted at 1:33AM on Oct 20th 2009 by John

13. This man is a child abuser; since the boy barfed he is likely a homo pederast, too. (Sorry, Harv, but some homos are in fact pre-erts, it's a fact.)

Posted at 1:34AM on Oct 20th 2009 by Hugh Jass

14. How the hell does the average Joe Public get authorization from the FAA to launch a 60 pound rocket?

Posted at 1:40AM on Oct 20th 2009 by Nameless

15. This man is a child abuser; since the boy barfed the father is likely a homo pederast, too.

(Sorry, Harv, but some homos are in fact pre-verts, it's a fact. Hadda fix the typo error here so y'all didn't think I was illiterate, okay? Like we know you are a buff homo, Harv, but not a pederast homo, right?)

Posted at 2:21AM on Oct 20th 2009 by Hugh Jass

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