Without question, Balloon Boy was the television highlight of 2009. It had it all – drama, excitement.
The possibility of dead children. Everything. But it appears that the Colorado judicial system doesn’t take the same glee in watching what was assumed to be a suffocated toddler flying through the air for several hours before crashing to earth in a giant inflatable UFO as everyone else – it has just sent Richard and Mayumi Heene, the parents behind the Balloon Boy hoax, to jail for mucking everyone around.
You have to admit, it’s an unusual punishment – usually when a couple of parents are as transparently awful as Richard and Mayumi Heene, they’re simply given their own reality TV show.
