Comments on: Own a piece of the Balloon Boy saucer

By: James B

James B — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:33:00 +0000

The emergency services that these people, by their own admission, fraudulently incurred, come from one of the counties where I pay a substantial bit of property tax. The proceeds from this should be going back to help put gas in the fire trucks, not to some friggin lawyer.

By: patelanjali

patelanjali — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:39:00 +0000

wow
so nice…

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:35:00 +0000

Agreed. I really don’t know why people think they can make money from this kind of thing. Yes people collect similar things, like crime memorabilia, but this is to notorious crime memorabilia as would be collecting TV props from Survivor vs. props from Star Trek or something.

It’s funny, the immediate gut reaction one might get upon taking possession of something like this would probably be that you could make some money on it. But it should only take a few seconds worth of thought to realize that no matter how stupid people are, no one is stupid enough to actually want a piece of this, much less even remember the incident at this point.

By: BBNinja

BBNinja — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:04:00 +0000

Pass. Who would want a part of this a-hole’s crappy balloon?

By: ackpht

ackpht — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:18:00 +0000

This way, the secondary morons can sell their pieces on eBay, to service the tertiary morons, and to simultaneously create an online ersatz balloon-piece market that reaches out to the quaternary morons.

By: jeligula

jeligula — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:52:00 +0000

I wish I could say this lawyer is overestimating people’s stupidity, but I cannot. I bet he makes five figures off this stunt.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:18:00 +0000

How can a “Fruitman” be a vulture?

By: Mark_Frauenfelder

Mark_Frauenfelder — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:06:00 +0000

I’ll bet no one buys any of these pieces of the balloon.

By: awjt

awjt — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:35:00 +0000

Fruit Man?

By: Ad_absurdum

Ad_absurdum — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:31:00 +0000

Unfortunately people will eat this up. I’m sure he’ll get well over $2500 for the pieces of it.
I don’t know why the authorities didn’t confiscate the balloon as part of a crime.

By: Cornan

Cornan — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:58:00 +0000

Wow. That was in 2009. I feel ooooold now.

By: Rob Britt

Rob Britt — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:38:00 +0000

this is rewarding people for being publicity seeking a-holes. first the idiot from the sports card place and the secondary moron market. Hopefully no one wants a piece of this and Fruitman (appropriate name?) has to eat the 2500.

By: Petzl

Petzl — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:51:00 +0000

“Fruitman … paid Heene’s attorney $2500 for the saucer at auction”

Meaning Heene’s attorney accepted the balloon as (partial) payment for his services?
I can see that negotiation. “Gee, I don’t have cash. But do you accept balloons?”

By: jnordb

jnordb — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:51:00 +0000

If I were to purchase memorabilia related to a hoax, I’d rather have a Sasquatch suit…

By: jaytkay

jaytkay — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:49:00 +0000

I read that the family moved to Florida. Was that to avoid paying restitution, a la O.J.?