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Well, okay, I broke my own rules when it comes to believing the unbelievable.

Rule #1 "Everyone is lying and everything is intentional."  Not that I wasn't always skeptical and cynical, but I adopted this hard and firm position in January of 1990,  the day Charles Stuart jumped off the Tobin Bridge after convincing law enforcement and the media that he and his wife were victims of violent crime committed by an unknown black assailant.

Rule #2 -  "It's always the boyfriend or husband." Same goes for the Denver balloon boy episode. The story was concocted by the husband and father but it was carried out by the whole clan, including the wife.

While everyone is targeting Richard Heene,  I actually have a fantasy that I'd like to make chicklets of Mayumi Heene's smile. Just listen again to that 911 call where Mrs. Heene stereotypes her own nationality with her broken-English inability to articulate to an operator what's happening to her own son - even going so far as to tell the woman that her son is "in a flying saucer."

By the way, the unspoken hero of this whole affair is the 911 operator who stuck with the call despite her own skepticism.

As for referencing "Gawker" as the  news outlet complicit in this sorry affair; since when is Gawker a news outlet?

When a Colorado family lost control of a helium balloon thought to be carrying their six-year old son, a life or death drama played out on national television . Or so we thought.  Six year-old Falcon Heene was never in the helium balloon that was tracked across the Colorado sky on Thursday afternoon.  Now there is family video of the balloon’s liftoff and some are questioning if this was a publicity stunt.