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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:31 PM Original message |
Sheriff suspects a "media outlet" was in on the Balloon Boy hoax |
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mucifer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think I'd rather see a media outlet prosecuted than the family. |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Do both. |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. i vote for both. |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #1 |
15. Third to both. And I do mean both, the whole fam damnly |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. Another for both, with a 'rec' nt |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:39 PM Response to Reply #1 |
38. both nt |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-19-09 12:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
61. put me down for BOTH also n/t |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. Sue 'em. |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. Take away KUSA's helicopter and their pilot's license. |
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951-Riverside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:32 PM Response to Reply #17 |
34. Why? |
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we can do it (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 08:35 PM Response to Reply #2 |
55. +1 |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
3. I was wrong - I gave the family the benefit of the doubt. |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
19. You're probably a good person. I'm not. I made up my mind about these folks on sight. |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:17 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. Yeah...you're an asshole. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:33 PM Response to Reply #19 |
35. Hey! You're a good person, just more discerning than I am, |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-19-09 12:43 AM Response to Reply #35 |
62. Oops- mispost. :p |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
46. thankfully thats why he is a police chief and I hope you are not. |
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Regret My New Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:07 PM Response to Reply #3 |
22. Nothing wrong with giving the benefit of the doubt... |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:35 PM Response to Reply #22 |
36. Well put. nt |
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PatSeg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
44. I did too |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 06:47 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. I think a big part of my problem is that I can't imagine doing |
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PatSeg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 08:33 PM Response to Reply #47 |
54. Same here |
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Kerrytravelers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
6. I'd say "unbelievable," but really, nothing is unbelievable any more. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest |
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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
8. I thought I heard that millions were spent by the government over this |
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Democrats_win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
9. What about the farmer's field where the balloon landed? |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I read a news story that the family's wheat field was ruined |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:04 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. I'm suspicious of that too. How much damage could they do? It's wheat. |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:16 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. O.o |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 08:44 PM Response to Reply #20 |
57. I suspect you didn't grow up in the country. |
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rufus dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:39 PM Response to Reply #11 |
39. City boy here, so need some insight |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 08:16 PM Response to Reply #39 |
52. Winter wheat |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 08:16 PM Response to Reply #11 |
51. Crop rotation - they let the field lie fallow |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:53 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. The emergency vehicles indeed ruined a family farm's winter wheat crop. |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
28. There was a post earlier about this. It was some kind of family farmer that really needed that crop |
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Billy Burnett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:25 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Maybe they could hoax a crop circle in the field and make some dough or leverage a show. n/t. |
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fizzgig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-19-09 12:56 AM Response to Reply #9 |
65. the sherrif is a right wing attention whore |
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cwydro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
10. Curiouser and curiouser. |
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snagglepuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:16 PM Response to Reply #10 |
32. Ditto. nt |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
13. once they got the computer, I'm sure we are gonna find out just which channel was involved |
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tblue37 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 08:01 PM Response to Reply #13 |
49. Staged TV?? nt |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 08:11 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. I like that much better +1 |
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AntiFascist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
14. Uh oh.... |
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EmeraldCityGrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
16. Oh please let it be TLC. |
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Regret My New Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:09 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. TLC, as in, The Learning Channel? |
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EmeraldCityGrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:34 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. I think it's TLC that has the |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:15 PM Response to Reply #23 |
31. They totally changed. |
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Regret My New Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 07:58 PM Response to Reply #31 |
48. Yeah, I looked it up and saw the programming... |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
21. Now this aspect of the story is interesting. |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:59 PM Response to Reply #21 |
29. trusted + news source = oxymoron |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:13 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Sadly true. |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-19-09 12:50 AM Response to Reply #21 |
64. I'd like to see a real expose of this as well. |
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ampad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
24. WTF |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
37. Sounds like a FOX kinda stunt. |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:41 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Unless Murdoch is an idiot, he would have worked this through a tabloid... |
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rufus dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:42 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. Oh my if that is true then I'm in church next Sunday morning! N/T |
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951-Riverside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 06:03 PM Response to Reply #37 |
45. Might explain why the sheriff told the media he's not doing anymore interviews unless... |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-19-09 08:26 AM Response to Reply #37 |
67. There is a channel called Fox Reality Channel which has some of this real/fake stuff on it |
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Politicalboi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
42. It's probably |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 09:43 PM Response to Reply #42 |
60. That describes Faux News to a tee. |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
43. ABC? Were the Wife Swap cameras rolling during all of this? nt |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
53. These people had their 15 minutes of fame |
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Stephanie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
56. Here's Heene's former asst's story: |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
58. Oh PLEASE let it be Discovery/TLC. |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-19-09 12:45 AM Response to Reply #58 |
63. I'm watching Storm Chasers right now on Discovery. I like some of their programming. |
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busybl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-18-09 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
59. Please be fox, please be fox. |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-19-09 06:45 AM Response to Original message |
66. Kick |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-19-09 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
68. CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC etc, etc are strangely silent on this aspect of the story... |
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