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Yesterday afternoon, the Twittersphere went wild with with #balloonboy tweets and links to news articles about a six-year-old boy who allegedly was trapped inside a helium balloon flying aimlessly over Colorado. Surely, I’m not the only one who looked at that floating Jiffy Pop bag that wondered “how is that little boy supposed to fit in there?”
Apparently, he wasn’t in the balloon after all. While the balloon halted departures at Denver International Airport and had a fleet of emergency vehicles and military helicopters engaged in a rescue mission, it turned out that the balloon was empty because the boy, Falcon Heene, was really home hidden in a box in the garage.
Was the Whole Thing A Hoax?
Today, police are investigating allegations that this dramatic story of a six-year-old boy who took off with his storm-chasing dad’s weather balloon by mistake was a hoax dreamed up by his fame-hungry family. Sadder, is the fact that the little boy is getting violently ill on national television while his family is being interviewed on show after show. Take a look at this Wolf Blitzer interview on CNN and decide for yourself if it’s a hoax.
