Balloon Boy | In Richard Heene's own words
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- Richard Heene's account of what happened.
You can contact Richard Heene at: Richard.Heene.inbox@gmail.com
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Update: Richard Heene was pardoned by the Governor of Colorado in December 2020
Damn that s long ass time
One good thing to come out of 2020.
Also can't believe I showed up here just in time to read this!
That’s the best news I’ve heard in a long time :)
I see now why those videos were suddenly recomended to me today. Glad to hear that.
pardoned? I guess they did plead guilty. Still very cool!
when you just wanted to make dank videos of old 4chan memes but end up covering the corruption of the legal system.
Mauricio Silva And people say memes don't lead to bigger things
meme magic is real, praise kek!
Mauricio Silva when you just wanted to make dank videos on interesting memes and events in internet history but you inadvertently turn into Phoenix Wright and help a guy try to prove his innocence
Mauricio Silva 500 likes fuck yea
The president of the united states was elected due to memes.
Bro, the Mayumi interrogation was basically just
“Guiltypersonsayswhat”
“Huh?”
“Close enough”
Best way to put it. It was so frustrating to watch.
They violated the 'Miranda Rights' exactly like their namesake!
I cant stop laughing at this comment xD
lolol fantastic comment
for real I'm actually pissed off at that, literally just taking advantage of someone who can't fricking speak for themselves properly in that language or understand it fully is so fucking dirty and ugh i hate it so much
Update:
Richard and his wife have both been pardoned by the governor of Colorado.
More like swept under the rug under the guise of a pardon. A formal apology should be issued. Not enough justice. If this can’t be done, those involved needed to be cancelled hard.
@@bosaciousbagginocious7475 a pardon is a formal addition of wrongdoing by the government.
fuck the pardon he needs fucking compensated
at least it's something, but after all this years of struggle, expenses a d fighting against the current they deserved more
@@bosaciousbagginocious7475 Yes, however. One of the punishments handed to Heenes by the court was that they could not monetise the events in any way. With the pardon, if they wanted, they could now try writing a book, or trying to tell the story from their end, and at least try and recoup some of the money they lost in the ordeal. It's not perfect but it's better than what it was before.
When a memelord can make a better investigation than a fully capable news station, not only that but doing it without moving out of its computer.
C3ck
To be fair, his investigation is coming from previous reports. He doesn’t have to go out there and speculate there.
That being said, it still shows that he cares more about justice than they did.
Nah it's its. It's is short for "it is", while its indicates possession. In the sentence, he was indicating the memelord's possession of its computer.
The media wont investigate something to tell the truth. They do it to tell a story. A story to fit whatever agenda they're pushing, which is more times than not, just for politics and greed; the recipe for disaster.
That' MSM for you. Remember "Sum Ting Wong - We Tu Lo - Ho Lee Fuk"
Never gonna forget the conversation between Faith and her sister in Mirrors Edge,
"Don't you read the news Faith?"
"Its not news, its advertising."
Perfectly sums up main stream media
The fact that Mayumi had to sit there for several seconds just to think of a word in English is blatant proof that she should have had an interpreter with her. She wasn't able to give an honest and clear confession and the investigators damn well knew that.
@@bashkillszombies "these parasites"
Who? Mayumi? The court? The interpreter? You stated in a strange manner.
@@DavidLopez-pc7yg He's talking about immigrants.
bashpr0mpt
Yikes. What a channel btw haHAA
Proof that americans need interpreters ;)
not that its important or anything but i was like no. 666
Richard Heene: haven't slept for 52 hours
The investigator: just open your eyes lmao
want some sugar?
This dead ass how my job treats me after working doubles everyday
Goddamn a 473 blood sugar puts most people in the hospital
Lolol
So what basically happened was...
1. Falcon climbed in the saucer multiple times until he got yelled at
2. Falcon went in the attic to hide after being yelled at
3. The saucer lifted off and got away
4. The other child assumed Falcon was still in there from earlier and told Richard and Mayumi
5. Richard and Mayumi panicked and called everyone they could for help
6. Falcon stayed in the attic probably thinking he was going to be in trouble
Makes sense
And from all the yelling in the take off video, whether acting or not, that was the way "conversations" went. Probably many times after being told not to touch Dad's experiments many many times, certain kids are climbers and hiders.
Makes perfect sense yeah
falcon: imma end this man's whole career
(jk)
you're 110% true dude
he should sue for false prosecution
So the same judicial system that fucked him can reevaluate? Sorry but they protect their own, never gonna happen.
That will require a lot of money.
Chase H. they did for Tim masters...
In this sort of case lawyers will take it on contingency if they think its a good case. (Contingency: lawyers get share of winnings ballpark 20 to 45% of winnings)
They could probably take it to a state or federal court
This poor guy got framed. He didnt deserve the hate
It's like the Mc Donalds coffee spill story.
Okabim even that story blew my mind. Coffee shouldn’t be able to give you first degree burns.
+Trippy Bruh I was in primary school when I heard about the maccas coffee spill thing, classmates and I thought it was retarded how someone could sue over hot coffee
only about 10 or 11 years later did I remember about that and decide to look it up, where I found out that it gave her fucking third degree burns on her vag and thighs.
This whole story just fucken boils my blood
Trippy Bruh *third degree burns
UPDATE: In December of last year (2020) the Colorado Governor has pardoned the mother and father of their ‘crime’ after saying their sentence was unjust conviction. They now have no criminal record. That being said they received no compensation, no apology, no justice and although the media really liked dragging Heeny down about the hoax, they don’t like admitting that their wrong so it’s hardly being covered at all. So better than it was but still pretty disgusting.
They must sue them. That's the only way to make them pay for their mistakes. No policeman, politician, lawyer will ever do that of their own free will.
@@mitoryninja That would sadly cost a lot of money they don't have, and honestly they probably wouldn't win the case in either suing the state, or suing the media. The prosecutor on the other hand maybe.
@@zekromfan1 well the timmy guy won
@@cookiedoodle0276 The problem is, what would they get even if they "win"? The individual in questions are probably covered by qualified immunity, so barring something extremely grievous and have a precedent, nothing would happen to them. When I say grievous, I mean really grievous, these stuff are just another Tuesday for them and happens all the time, QI have been protecting all sort of lies.
Then there is damages. You can't really get emotional damages for stuff like this from the government. For the most part, you get monetary damages(the fine) and a fixed rate for time served. The total recoverable probably won't even reach 6 figures, which won't even cover the lawyers fee.
Timothy got a meaningful sentence because he was rotting in jail for a long time, so it added up. Not the case here.
@@cookiedoodle0276 Well, yeah, but timmy served 10 *years* under false pretenses.
Another thing about interogating Mayumi and using “yes” as a confession. In japanese the word “yes” is “hai” which directly translates more accurately to “affirmative”. So in mant cases where she responds “yes” to questions, it’s more accurate to suggest she’s merely saying “I understand” or “I agree”, not “that is true.”. In many cases in japanese you answer “yes”(hai) to questions despite the “correct” response being “no”.
It’s just another thing wrong with interrogating her.
So it's more similar to an english "yeah"?
@@dylanhammond1442 yep
I can confirm. They use this like how we use "yeah" and "uhu" but never in the context of "i agree to your question/statement"
soda ne
the japanese word for “I understand” or “I agree" is wakarimasta but yeah ur right "hai" can be said for "yeah sure" too
How could an officer in his right mind claim a blood sugar of over 400 is not an accurate medical concern, what the hell? I'm glad you're shedding light on this case internet historian, you're amazing.
Baylee Roberson seriously. Im an EMT and anything over 400 on our digital meter doesn't even register numerically; it just says "HIGH - GO TO THE HOSPITAL"
When my mom was alive she struggled with extemely high blood sugar levels. I'm talking levels that exceeded 1600.
473 dude. That's insane
Red Baron was she perhaps a maple tree?
i guess to the police think its ok for suspects to nearly die he also didn't have sleep for 50 hours i would be like ok lets get your blood sugar down
this should be on the main channel honestly. the man deserves as much exposure as he can get.
Ryan Meaker I agree. Needs to be back in the media to expose this disgusting abuse of power.
Agreed, definitely needs to be on the main channel.
Be sure to share it as much as we all can.
Nah that's for internet historian videos, this is literally a splice response from someone else.
Kenny Winker it's still a follow up to another video, I'm just suggesting it got put there for reach reasons.
Remember to NEVER answer police questions without a lawyer
Don't talk to police in general. Never answer anything you're not legally required to answer. Treat them with complete distrust: they want convictions, not the truth.
Fucking for real
damn,American polices are total dicks.
The good ol' "shut the f*ck up" guys taught me that
(had to censor it since this was getting flagged as potentially offensive despite that being the direct quote)
Dont even help them find the murderer of your dead partner. Quite some people that tried to help police to find their girlfriends partner, had gotten arrested while they didnt even do it!
I like that Historian lets Richard talk, he doesn't inject, he just lets the video play. Very respectful IH
Honestly I think it just goes to show IH interview skills, especially since its such an emotive subject
You know, this man could be 100% guilty and it still wouldn't matter, because of how poorly this investigation was carried out. So many members of the prosecution lying and committing perjury. This case should've been thrown out immediately.
Binary Pony I believe Perjury used to carry the death sentence, no?
GPC, it should've continued to do so.
Binary Pony definitely grounds for at least a mistrial
The problem is that no one fucking care about this. Trials are a fucking joke at this point, there are so very many examples of people literally being framed just to get it all over it. There are cases that have books and documentaries about them, about how completely laughable the investigation and triels were, and people still ended up in jail, sometimes even condemed to a death sentence for bogus crimes with no evidence and forced confessions. And nothing ever happens to the fuckers who are out to destroy other's lives, even though you could say that they are ever worse then the worst of murderers because they are doing it with the state authority backing them.
when you start off trying to poke fun at a man, but end up redeeming him
that's the beauty of dankness
I come back to this every now and then and think about how many "journalists" this had to pass through before an internet meme man actually did his due diligence and discovered the truth.
"Journalists" are literally some of the worst people on earth. The amount of irreparable harm that has been done because of them is inexcusable. Thankfully, the internet has shown time and time and time again how utterly worthless they are. They are truly down there in the ranks alongside politicians.
Journos are slimy dirty smear merchants, nothing more
Agreed. More proof than should be needed to determine that "journalism" is a dead profession.
What we have today are sensationalist rating mongers at best, and blatant propagandists at worst.
The fourth branch of government - the media - is at display here in full effect. Horrific what they did to this man and his family just for some views. I hope they all carry shame to this day
as an interpreter myself I find the fact that they didn't have one available for Mayumi, even though getting one is as easy as 1 phone call, fucking disgusting and an obvious sign that that scum who call themselves "lawmen" had no good intentions
this is exactly my thought, plus the amount of time people make fatal mistakes because they don't feel like calling an interpreter unless the person being interviewed can't form basic sentences....if someone knows basic english, great, that doesn't enable them to function in a fucking legal environment, even native speakers need something called a fucking legal dictionary
So did he live in Japan at some point or something? How’d he even get himself a Japanese wife? Lol
@@2yoyoyo1Unpluggedbuilt different
Having worked for a state agency... yeah, it really does just take one phone call. The first time I had to schedule an interpreter I was wracked with anxiety about how complicated it would be, but it's as easy as scheduling a haircut.
This went from "Let's make a meme video about this dumb incident" to "Let's contact the actual defendant of the case and hear his side of the story while exposing the media's lies".
You're a godsend, Historian.
Blur Hikari This video was made in 2010
Salander when the defendant saw historians video, he sent in this video that he had made in 2010. Yes the video is 7 years old, but it was sent here as a result of historian's video
also it wasn't the media's lies, it was the prosecutor's lies
+eliasmcdt
It was both.
The media stated what the police department told them... this didn't happened in 2016/2017
Whether you believe him or not this is clear evidence that these cops were acting unethically and it's insane that nothing has been done about this.
Kaboom0 When pressure to get a prosecution is coming from the media, the public and their superiors, you can bet that the prosecutors and police will lie to get that prosecution. It's super fucked up.
There was massive media attention as soon as news stations found out about the balloon flying off. Media coverage of the entire case was inevitable.
Kid: “I’m tired”
Interrogator: Nah, I’m not done with you yet small child.
Polygraph Examiner: "I can see you are struggling with words."
STOP.
Richard deserves justice.
pokepok3 Richard Spencer
#JusticeForBalloonBoi
Could we rise enough money so that he could at least redo that baloon project? For the science.
+Bimawan Satrianto
#HeeneDidNothingWrong
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax here's the wikipedia page, guys.
Fuck... I thought this guy was a joke and only did it for the attention, but now... This man needs justice
same i stopped all interest when news everywhere blasted it was a hoax. I had no idea about the ionised charge electric propulsion part and the main purpose was to stabilize lateral movements. which is currently the hardest part. You'd need liquid helium reserves, and gyroscopic precession quantum locked magnetically. its real science application. check out both ionized propulsion an quantum magnetic levitation. both super cool. pun intended
Soo idea is to have helium do the heavy lifting, have balloon shoot ions into every direction to stabilize it and levitate over super conductor? I could be wrong, cant do that well in quantum physics when been wake 24hours.. and that dude was wake 50 hours... how in the fuck he was able to O.O cant do it even with stimulants O.o
Hellsong89 it is deffinatly possible to be awake for over two days. Hard but deffinatly possible
Same here. Plus his wife was isolated and it seems she doesn't have a good grasp on English or the legal system here. Then they go on and interrogate the kids alone.
Well, the guy just got a full pardon by the Colorado Governor a few days ago.
I mean, that doesn't undo all the crap that happened to him because of this, but at least he's no longer a convicted criminal.
The most scary part is when he said that he built that as a family project is giving me shivers down my spine just imagine one day you make a family project and then suddenly you land yourself in a decade long battle for freedom
lesson: rent a helicopter yourself
wouldn't cost 30000$ i hope
Some good news about this situation: the Colorado Governor, Jared Polis, pardoned the Heene family in December of 2020. He didn't say he believed them or anything but he said that they didn't deserve a criminal record and that they paid the price in the eyes of the public. It's still incredibly shitty what happened to them but at least that's a bit of good news. It would've been a lot better if he had said the police department fucked them but of course he isn't able to do that in his position lol
Read the exact quote for the pardon dude wasn't even sorry just said basically said "hey you were embarrassed and it was long enough so its not on your record, the end" no admittance to a corrupt case nor any reparations for the jail time and over 30k in fines, absolute bullshit I would've told the governor to take his pardon and shove it
@@Dylster501 well if you could fight like that then you wouldn't have had to take the plea in the first place. Mr. Heene wasn't so lucky with his immigrant wife and children.
@@Dylster501
It just shows you what media and ones in control can do. Legal system is a joke.
We have drugged up criminals getting off with millions in tax dollars because of a manipulated public opinion (from media/politicians/Hollywood/big tech etc) and not an actual justice system.
Just shows to prove.. If the ones running the show want you in jail... you will be in jail.
Unless you have some insane following or the money to pay for endless legal fees.
I remember when this was on the news.. Every tv show, late night, MSM, newspaper was saying "Hoax" . Not one reporter was saying anything else.. No investigation of any kind. I recall seeing nothing but how evil this family was.... How would you win (over a jury) that is dead set on you being thrown in jail?
all he did was asking for a fking helicopter
if anyone should be able to criticize police response and judicial malfeasance, it would be the governor
The "high blood sugar is not a legitimate medical concern" pisses me off to no end. My family is highly diabetic, and a glucose level of over 400 is nearly to point where you need to call an ambulance. "Not a legitimate medical concern." That PoS should be incarcerated for that
The police honesty don't care about medical shit. They will happily use it against you. Once I was passing in and out and was barely coherent and they told me the doctor said I was fine. 1, no doctor came to see me.
My uncle found out he was diabetic at a free work blood test. The kicker is he had a high 300 or 400 something blood sugar and that morning or yesterday fell asleep at the wheel and sideswiped his car. He was also immediately taken to the ER after that test. High blood sugar is dangerous.
I lived with a diabetic for awhile, you could clearly see it in her face when her blood sugar wasnt right. Its like someone with a bad flu going on 24+ hours without sleep. You cant really see his face super well in the footage but Id be very surprised if any sane/decent person actually looked at him then and thought he was in any state to be rightfully interrogated
As a T1D this is outrageous. Your blood basically turns into syrup when that high, and clotting makes it so OXYGEN DOESN’T GO TO YOUR BRAIN. Tell me how that is not a legitimate medical concern!
'tis just a flesh wound.
I'm impressed by that video of Richard Heene. He presents official documents and provides official video evidence that these documents contain lies.
It's like watching another episode of "Making a Murderer". All the same dirty interrogation tricks, lying, fabrication of evidence...
Or just looking at a vox article smearing pewdiepie
No, the video was made in 2010.
"Making a Murderer" is bullshit. Anyone with a brain can tell Avery is guilty and that's what most people believe. Do deeper research. To think a documentary filmmaker can't fabricate things for their own agenda is ridiculous. You should never just take a movie's word for anything. Why would you blindly accept the movie without looking into it more? You're exactly the type of naive moron that people who make those kinds of movies market to.
Bro, you GOTTA read Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson!
Wicked people in powerful positions.
This story has been coming back now that the parents are pardoned, and every news outlet is still insisting that it was a hoax. I really hope this video makes the rounds again too, because people need to hear the other side of the story.
"An obvious attempt to derail the investigation." Somehow that's one of the things that pisses me off the most. When someone is telling the truth and it doesn't just get called a lie, but an "obvious" lie. I've been in that kind of possession several times before and it pisses me off so god damn much.
"did you think he was in the attic"
"no"
writes: yes
holy fucking christ, pure evil
Shouldve been perjury charges for that BS
@@frankmarano1118 perjury*
@@Xanthopathy thanks I dont even remember writing that so I mustve been half asleep. Corrected now, I always point out the same when other people make mistakes like that. Don't like to let anyone walk around with food in their teeth, so to speak.
Why doesn’t Richard sue them? He has undeniable evidence of multiple purjurys!
the f in journalism stands for fact
I have a family member with Type 1 Diabetes. 400+ blood sugar is borderline DELIRIOUS. My family member isn't even thinking rationally at that blood sugar level.
Fuck this whole situation, I feel so bad for this guy
Fancy seeing you here
Pretty sure you would be close to a K.O. at 400 blood sugar.
LateNightGaming - Video Game News & Entertainment he should be healthier
This makes me curious about something. I was going through chemotherapy a few years back and because of the meds they had me on i got a temporary form of diabetes. I remember that quite often when i took my blood sugar the machine read 700+, it was so high the machine couldn't read it. I'm not sure what that means because i never felt any worse (granted i had cancer so maybe i couldn't feel any worse), but i get the impression i should probably be dead
I found I had a Type 1 Diabetes when after a blood analysis my blood sugar was close to 700. I was a little thirsty lately but I was alive and physically and mentally ok. I guess it depends on people ...
"I'm tired I wanna go back out" when he says that and they don't let him out, that's the moment anyone should be able to see who is in the wrong here. 25:30
That’s some snake ass shit.
I can't imagine how traumatized his son Falcon might've been from that one sentence since it pretty much triggered this entire shit show.
Not to mention the kid who said that Falcon was in the balloon
the bit about not having a japanese interpreter for mayumi... proof right there that they wanted to trick her into giving the answers they wanted.
His poor wife - extremely scared, barely undestanding what is happening and that bastard "interrogating" is using her to say what he wants...
I hope they get compensation.
it's so fucking disgusting that they didn't get her a translator, she clearly didn't fully understand what was going on.
eliza how The crown prosecutors (or whatever it's called in America) have always been corrupt as shit. Their goal is to get a prosecution, innocence be damned.
I don't feel bad for either of them, they are completely unfit parents who should have had their children permanently removed from their custody.
eliza how yeah she clearly sufferd from stress and didnt understand what was going
Hammerhead547 Are you trolling or being serious? Because if you are, then you are blind to the fact and the heaps of evidence that what shown in the video.
UPDATE: “Balloon Boy’s parents pardoned by judge”
Just back you up bud
Yeah, but not really though...the governor didn't side with Heene, just grant clemency.
@@greyaye8565 yeah i just updated as soon as i heard the headline that’s why it’s in quotes.
But they still claim it was a hoax. And to this day the Wikipedia article about the incident and *all* media reporting out there refers to it as a hoax
Dude I have just suffered a PTSD event that is in some way similar to Richard Heene's story. His conversations with the interrogating officer are exactly like mine. This has ABSOLUELY CONVINCED me of Richard Heene's innocence in this matter.
He was acting in good faith!! It's so obvious
the fact that he responded meant he is still pissed off to this day, its enough for me to state that he is innocent
Big facs. Occam’s razor that my mad lad
Kong Thao?
He's still storming.
Nasir Abdullahi I agreed with you up until you brought up race. Race means nothing. These people want power over others, regardless of race.
Barley 1312 I’m not disagreeing with you, keeping that in mind, it’s notorious that our judicial system isn’t set up to be fair for POC. While I find it true that our law system is corrupt and there’s mountains of evidence showing how far theyd go just to imprison someone, even if they’re innocent, it’s increasingly harder for POC. Anyone who disputes that haven’t done enough research. Fuck I mean there’s even Netflix documentaries. Shit has to change for all of us, people of all races, because if not it’s just going to be the same.
The fact that he actually saw the video shows the impact your work does internet historian, you do alot more than document memes and raids.
MEME GOD he probably is always searching his name and story every day. That story probably completely consumed his life
Oscar I was just about to say that lol. This dude definitely searches himself daily
Jason Gamino I don't blame him.. poor guy
he said like at the beginning of the video its his side from 2010 you fucking idiots
B-but memes and raids are important too ;-;
Thank you for all of this. Not only were both videos very informative, it also shed light on everything. Well done.
My blood pressure was rising throughout the entire video, how can a justice system be so bad...
Just read that tim masters case, jesus christ. Basically threw a guy in jail because he was too edgy.
KING OF EATING ASS is that wrong,
Ty Jobs
If it's not, then you should be in jail.
Scotland is a joke, throwing its own citizens in jail for an innocent joke...
free my nigga jew_goldstein
The Mayumi's part almost get me angry and cry, I mean, there you have a mother that is scared about losing her childrens... she is there, defenseless, with a corrupt cop that only wants to make a case and get a promotion
It's too sad to watch...
@Squiggummer Figgammus, Alex Jones got banned. Our flagship has fallen...
not only that, she is doesn't have full grasp of the language, which makes everything even worse.
@@LucasCunhaRocha that's what makes the whole thing even more disgusting to me, this poor woman barely understands the questions being posed to her, and the interrogator is fully aware of this fact and uses it to manipulate her
more importantly she doesn'st speak english really...
This kind of treatment is absolutely disgusting and just outright unfair, and to think men like them are getting away with it is utterly fucking despicable.
honestly now that his kids are teens and his wife is still with him gives me enough proof that he is innocent. mayumi was clearly worried only for her kids in her interogation, yet she stuck by the man whos "hoax" would have torn her from her kids. the only logical explanation for this is that they are both guilty or they are innocent. and since their kids have only agreed with their parents story speaks volumes to me.
the only real possibility and the evidence points to them being set up.
It’s honestly terrifying how easily these corrupt officials framed an innocent man. If they could do it over this relatively minor case, who knows how much worse it gets
The Wikipedia page on this incident still categorizes it as a hoax.
Can we collectively change this?
Yes
They locked the page, now you can't edit it
@@evose1238 kek, basic "no freedom of speech" from Wikipedia.
I laugh when I see them beg for shekels.
>Muh non for profit
Whata shitpost.
wikipedia is riddled with lies. especially relating to anything that might portray the media or western governments as untrustworthy.
@@levitatingoctahedron922 Great. NOW I WILL NOT TRUST THAT SHITTY WEBSITE ANYMORE. Effing hell.
They way they 'questioned' his wife is disgusting, just constantly using the language barrier to lead her into traps, just that in itself makes this obvious
"So you knew your son was in the house, but not in the attic?" "So your dad knows you are gay, but not that you steal candy from the store?"
And then they just straight up lied about what she said.
I know there had to have been multi lingual people in Colorado that would speak both English and Japanese. We do that shit for people who speak Spanish but we couldn't do that for a woman who speaks Japanese...?
@@kilssj2250 even then, I used to work at a call centre and there are loads of companies who do translator work over the phone. It would have been as simple as calling one of these companies and the problem is solved.
Yea especially the usage of the word "hoax". They really couldn't have picked a more colloquial word without going into idioms.
I've seen in movies that the American legal system is corrupt, but I only now realise, that if this happens to someone, there is almost nothing they can do.
Thank you for this @InternetHistorian. This is important.
Heene: my blood sugar is _high_
Guy cosplaying as a cop: how do you get it _down?_ Do you dRiNk A s0dA ??
You need a snack or sum?
hearing that killed my remaining 4 braincells
To play devil's advocate, most of the time people deal with low blood sugar concerns and that is what alot of people are familiar with. It's possible that the interviewer wasn't paying attention or has no idea how blood sugar is measured or what is considered high or low and just responded with what he is likely familiar with which is to offer food.
As a type one hearing a law officer say that nearly made me scream. You'd think a Trained fucking police officer would have basic knowledge of how to deal with someone going through high blood sugar problems.
@@lolbuster01 That's all well and good, for an average Joe with no professional experience. This was a police officer performing a formal interrogation. If he didn't know how to handle medical issues like that, he should have brought in a professional who did before continuing the interrogation.
I am now fully convinced this wasn't a hoax
When I watched your original video, I'll admit I wasn't completely convinced. You brought up some great points, but without more specific details on the timeline of these events, I couldn't be sure. After watching this video though, there is basically no doubt left in my mind of his innocence. Laying out all the information like this really helps put it into perspective. And really, seeing the emotion that he portrayed here, the conviction with which he stood his ground, this would have been extremely challenging to fabricate.
What ultimately sealed the deal here was the extremely blatant, disgusting lies from the police. The interrogation of the kids was sickening! I can't believe the gall that the cop had to stand there, right outside of the camera's view, and dictate to a DHS rep what questions she should ask to help aide him in his attempt at convicting an "innocent until proven guilty" man. The DHS isn't their to provide police with a workaround to children's rights. And on top of that, when she did interrogate him, the kid completely exonerated his father.
The absolute exasperation in Falcon's voice, too. He's not really being listened to, and he's 100% over it.
This is the most compelling and anxiety inducing piece I’ve seen in a very long time.
start a petition to bring the case back , sue the shit out of those crooked cops and investigators/ detectives
Especially Eloise Campanella.
If you make one, ill sign it.
Because petitions get things done.
Jordi Nuñez Not the Heene himself, but putting the officials up on trial
make one!
“You knew he was up in the house, but you didn’t know he was up in the attic?”
The corrupt cop equivalent of
“Does your mom know you’re gay?”
It was phrased as a yes/no question, but either answer screwed her. How is a non native English speaker supposed to recognize that nonsense? Native English speakers have trouble recognizing that nonsense.
@@wolflordy3193 Even with her difficulties with English, she still stressed that she didn't know where Falcon was at the time of the incident. The interrogator asked if she knew that he was in the attic, she said she knew after [they found him], but not at the time. Her English during those clips isn't so bad as to imply any of the things that were written in the affidavit.
Its the kids fault
we need a comeback to that, kinda like "No, but your dad does ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)"
HE IS IN ZE ATTIC!
Using children in legal matters is underhanded in the highest the degree, *especially by the government.*
Having a professional, manipulative interrogator twist the clay that is a child's mind for false statements and or allegations is sickening.
I've heard tons of liars in my life, this guy ain't lyin.
I love how the lie detector test administrator took it upon himself to medically diagnose Richard Heene.
Didn't you know? A guy trained to read squiggly lines on a page from a machine that's not admissible in court is always a trained medical professional.
@@ForeverLaxx who isn't didn't you know all KFC employees are trained medical professionals
@@lauradeichen7684 more likely to believe kfc trains it's peeps than lie detector peeps
yeah, it's like you can't be just play expert at everything, pick your field, asshole. so dumb and self-important too, he thought people who look tired are just acting to trick him, THE EXPERT
@@Mihayan1
Tbf how would you feel if you choose to become an expert in pseudoscience and then the one time you get to feel important your victim is too sick to play with?
I just searched "blood level 400" and the first thing on Google said "Very high blood sugar above 400 mg/dL (22.2 mmol/L) can be a medical emergency. In many cases it must be treated right away with IV fluids and insulin." Heene had a level of 473. The information from Google most likely isn't completely accurate but nobody in their right minds could say that this wasn't a serious medical problem.
Oh and lets not forget he also had aparently been awake for over 50 hours. This guy didn't even have his lawyer with him.
My mother has diabetes m8.
If it gets about 250/300 she is falling to pieces.
This kinda a shit makes me sick.
when i first got diagnosed, my blood sugar was over 600, and I was feeling like that for days, maybe even weeks. Im surprised im not dead
All I wanna know is the fastest way to get to blood level 400 in bloodborne.
Sodapaup dope
Thank you Internet Historian for your work
This is really sick and twisted to see. My mom is a diabetic, so I’ve seen firsthand how incoherent someone with a blood sugar that high can get. If someone in that condition isn’t legally allowed to drive, then they sure as hell shouldn’t be participating in a police investigation.
Glad to see that he finally got cleared, but it’s still terrible that this happened to begin with. That’s lost time that can never be given back
This is honestly fucking unreal. How blatantly biased and corrupt can the media and local government be to let this go the way it did and have the audacity to paint this guy as the criminal?
Now think about what else they lie to you about.
Dude, I know the media does lie about a a lot of stuff, but don't try to use this real case of injustice against a man and his family to support your conspiracy theories about how the moon landing was faked
Flucker It shouldnt be
Ryan Mella If you're talking about dfadg sadfga saying "Now think about what else they lie to you about.", I don't see what's so outrageous about it. I think it's a fair sentiment, and I agree with him at a high level: we're constantly being bombarded everyday with information, and there's simply no amount of time to verify everything we see. Couple that with the fact that most people never bother to verify anything in the first place, and people's reluctance to be wrong and feel lied to, and lies spread like wildfire, while corrections and refutals barely get any traction in the first place.
I also think you jumped the shark with him (unless you know them from somewhere else), because you just assumed they were talking about reptilian conspiracies and not things like the more usual political lies. (Either that, or there's some hidden comment I can't see).
Either way, don't worry, I understand your frustration.
Ironic NatSoc memester Yeah, I kind of did jump the shark. A lot of news stations will fake things sometimes and fake or change their stories in order to get more attention and views. My mind just kind of went to the most extreme thing possible. Sorry about that. Also I'm glad that we were able to resolve this peacefully without having to yell at each other or correct each other's grammar just to win a debate on the comment section of a CZcams video
Let me get this straight.... In the confession document, it's written that she said "Yes" when they asked her if she knew that Falcon was hiding inside..... but in the confession video, she ACTUALLY says "No" when they asked her that. Jesus christ...
OblivionFall yes
Oops looks like I answered no according to this document
OblivionFall no the question was manipulative there was no correct answer no meant she knew he was in the house but not the attic and yes meant she knew he was in the attic
The whole interview should be inadmissible considering the nature of it and the lack of interpreter.
A good defense attorney would probably have suppressed it in court, but it never got that far since he pled guilty.
All of the questions in these farcical interrogations are loaded out the ass. They're so blatantly trying to manipulate the kids and wife into saying what they want to hear.
These case details remind me of Errol Morris's documentary "The Thin Blue Line". Some prosecutors are so hungry for the conviction that whether or not the defendant is innocent is irrelevant to them.
I can't believe this happened to this poor family....this whole thing must have been very traumatising, my prayers go out to Richard Heene and his family
I feel the most sorry for Mayumi. She was targeted and exploited and her words were twisted so much. She just seems so sweet.
im sure the good old "hey im not saying you'll be deported if you don't say the words i want to hear, but lets just say something bad might happen" is a good motivator as well... basically using mafia methods to force it out of her, guilty or not.
She got so exploited :(
I am actually amazed by her English. At least she tried to speak. It is stupid that the cops can't see that when she does not even know what question she was asked.
Nice pfp
She seems very smart, just not very worldly.
here i am enjoying your investigation into old raids and memes, and all of a sudden your actually investigating real shit and doing a better job than the authorities
you obivously didn't watch this video, because they did
Cadmann778 they did it well enough to convince everyone of their lies.
i'm pretty sure authorities did a good job digging to the core of it. Not sure if they were benevolent tho.
Cadmann778 this is the price we pay for our raughs
Those with the power choose how to use it. I'm sure it was obvious to everyone involved that it was nothing more, but like Heene said, they saw opportunity for advancement and took it by stepping all over them. This is the corruption spread throughout the world like a disease, and they deserve to suffer for it.
Bro the questioning to the kids and mother were heartbreaking to listen to. Those people questioning them should have been brought up on charges and put in jail.
the research for this channel and IH is incredibly inspiring. From a small YT'er to a bigger, huge respect.🍻
The fact that Mayumi didn't have a Japanese interpreter and that Richard didn't get enough sleep is enough proof that the cops were trying to trick them into getting the answers they wanted.
I agree
Follower Of Duck yes it's a common trick but in the police defense it is effective causing actual criminals to slip up getting a conviction
@Hey Joji If it gonna get conviction from both innocent and guilty people, then the police may as well make up the conviction themself.
Even if it’s fucked up to fabricate something about someone who’s guilty, it’s damn well better than fabricating something about someone who’s innocent.
what about the kids talking to the cops without any supervision? WTH was that?
this man needs some justice
not with his blood sugar as high as it is, get him a snack or something...
Hindquarterz When your blood sugar is too high, you need insulin to get it down, not more food. You're thinking of hypoglycemia.
Sturm The Regulator it's a joke, when he told the investigator his blood sugar was 470 he said "so what do you need a snack or something"
Take the case to federal court. That's what needs to happen.
This is truly terrifying.
Thank you for the vid. I know I’m late to the party but still glad I leaned about this.
I like that historian had nothing to say in this video. Rather than trying to make entertainment out of this, he just gave Henee another platform to expose his side of things. I'm glad to see the comments that the Henee's were given a well deserved pardon
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*THE PLOT THICKENS*
No kidding
Angry Seal
whoa,are you okay dude?
winner winner chicken penis
Zero 0wl, Its a meme
zero 0wl It's a reference to his user picture. Didn't mean the dude any harm.
Just getting madder and madder the more I watch this. What the corrupt cops & prosecutors put this family through is un-f*cking-forgivable.
20 bucks says that the older sheriff and officers were probably also prejudiced against Mayumi for being a Japanese immigrant and thought it was hilarious how she struggled.
@@Misanthropolis I bet you 40 bucks the older sheriff and officers thought she was Chinese at first
This is why it's important to hear both sides of the story.
Someone experienced needs to step up against whoever idiot in Wikipedia locked up the Balloon boy thread and disallowed this crucial information to be added.
Wait they locked it!? Those fuckin pricks locked it!? Everything on that page is incorrect and they locked it!? Now we gotta arrest him for spreading fake news and withholding of vital evidence and basically destroying his name
@@maplesyrup6529 Wikipedia editors get really touchy about using youtube videos as sources. Until some online newspaper or something decides to rip off Internet Historian's video the wikipedia page won't get updated.
Wikipedia is great and all when it comes to science but political and historical topics are getting highly manipulated and biased. There are subjects within this platform that are trying heavily to bend the truth and pushing a agenda.
What really needs to happen is that this information needs to be transcripted by a Reliable Source or something right? Like a licensed journalist? I don’t know shit about the wiki regulations but from what I understand, that’s what Richard needs
Yep still says hoax. It is even In the title. The title is balloon boy hoax
I really don't understand what people think Rich's motivation was. People say he wanted attention, but who wants to be known as the parents who let their kid fly away in a balloon?
That's exactly what troubled me when this whole thing went down. Seemed fishy at the time but I just accepted it as truth because I didn't really care. How many falsities have I accepted in my life out of apathy?
For that matter, who wants to be known as the guy who screamed at his fucking wife for not tethering down the balloon? I mean, he was being genuinely mean and visceral in that supposedly candid moment, not the kind of shit you want plastered over the news. You'd have to be a grade A sociopath to think that was fine.
And I'm sure he didn't mean it, he lost a bunch of expensive equipment due to a moment of negligence, and he lashed out. If this whole thing hadn't blown up, I'm sure he would have later apologized for being short and made up for it. And I hope that their relationship hasn't suffered as a result of this, but really how couldn't it? Imagine being barely able to speak a language that you legitimately migrated to, only to have your family become the laughing stock of the world.
billygowhoop isn't he a businessman? People can claim that his stunt was to bring attention to his products
@@MrGeorgeFlorcus What ?
@@heyjoji1954 Who would want to do business with a man who supposedly stranded his own child in one of his own products, 100s of feet in the sky?
That would be like if the Ryder truck company had knowingly and purposefully helped orchestrate the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to boost their business(or if American Airlines were to have done the same on 9/11). Not a good look for their businesses...
I believe it is very naive for ppl to say "any press coverage is good press coerage", or however the heck the saying goes. There most definitely is such a thing as bad press coverage, just ask Princess Diana, whose driver swerved into a concrete pillar to avoid the paparazzi. Or Richard Heene, for that matter.
Honesty, this was too painful to watch, I stopped right before the interrogation of the children.
Mr. IH, what you did was a gift to humanity.
Found you from Sseth's 'Wizardry 8' vid, started enjoying your autistic content and ended up watching a kindhearted man's brilliant and thoughtful content.
Wish more people were like you.
The fact that the child protective service worker was working with the sheriff was just so corrupt
This deserves to be on your main channel mate. This is just too fucked up a situation and more people need easy access to it. I wanted to laugh at the first video, but man, I feel so bad for this family.
I feel bad for anybody that has to go through the US justice system. It's made to bring people down.
Marquis M I just found this video and my mind is blown, the cops are doctoring evidence to fuck this guy and his family. It's fucking disgusting and more people need to see this
+The Mad Hammer The saddest thing is, they do this to people all the time and you never even hear about it.
kamekakarot this is like the McDonald's lawsuit. They twisted the testomony.
Daniel L. Lort not the system dude. The ducking people
wasn't it confirmed that his wife was interviewed without knowing her rights and without a lawyer? That violates the Mirada rights and literally can't be contested in the Supreme court. Fight for justice man!
K-C
Or tried to phrase it in the most confusing way possible, considering she isn’t a native English speaker.
I feel sorry for this dude. This man and his family need justice.
They got pardons at least, but sadly no action has been taken against the broken system that put them into this situation in the first place.
@@Sliver That's what needs to happen is the people involved need to be reprimanded.
The 911 operator that delayed the call should be put in prison. What if Falcon (awesome name btw) had been inside the balloon? What if he hadn't hidden in the little box? He could have fallen out. He could be in the middle of the desert, bleeding out with broken bones. Richard and his wife were terrified. You can hear it in their voices. HENNE WASN'T LYING. The court system needs to be changed.
A great notion, but the court system benefits the ruling class. This is their country, not ours.
This and the original should be trending
Robyn Highart I remember seeing a video by some hillbilly, which are usually conservative, but was liberal, and it was an anti trump video. The video had 10k views or less, but was trending. If that's not evidence of them just pulling that shit out of their ass I don't know what is.
I'm An Actual Cancer Cell My Mother Should've Aborted It wasn't even growing fast. It was stagnating.
I actually remember the first video being on trending, it wasn't very high on the list however like 30-40 still trending nevertheless
I'm An Actual Cancer Cell My Mother Should've Aborted
That's not true anymore. They changed it a while back (I can't remember when) to keep gaming videos out. (as well as likely fitting their political agenda, but that's getting into conspiracy territory)
Robyn Highart a
This man may be a bit crazy, but I am damn sure that he is innocent.
Agreed. I feel he is more maniked and pissed off but I don't see really any flaws in his testimony
@@sci_pain3409 I agree that he's innocent but did you not see those commercials they were quite funny
I mean.... I would go insane if my life was hecked up like that
Hm... I'd say eccentric is more accurate, honestly.
Crazies make this world livable.
Assholes live off of crazies.
This is gold. Good job Mr. Historian
Wow I saw the original video but missed the followup to this story completely. Amazing work, IH!
-my blood sugar level is 473 and it is supposed to be 100
- so do you want a soda?
People often mistake cops as smart because they’re good at their job but that is only what they’re good that
@Hannah search up police being denied the job for scoring too high on tests .. reason being “they will get bored of police work quicker” can you believe it
@Hannah Police are recruited and trained for compliance, not for intelligence.
It was Heene who asked how to get it down and said "Soda or shot?"
EDIT: Correction: It was the cop who asked it. I was misstaken.
@@bass-dc9175 no it wasnt, listen again the cop talked over him, saying "do you need a snack, or a soda" and under the cop talking you can hear heene say twice "I gotta take a shot"
12:55
I can't believe that the polygraph is still in use when it has been proven over and over again not to be reliable at all. Holy shit when will that lunacy end? Even the inventor hated what it was being used for.
polygraph test usage in police stations is actually quite interesting, as these days polygraph test results are generally inadmissible evidence in court.
Police use the test primarily to convince people to reveal information either through fear of the test itself and "being caught lying" or because doing the test makes them feel confident to talk as what they say 'will be considered true".
Basically, it's a trick that cops will use under the assumption that the person they are interrogating doesn't know that the test is no longer in usage when it comes to compiling/presenting evidence. You should always refuse a polygraph test.
The results of the polygraph test are almost never/never used in any official court documents, but what people say while strapped to it is considered admissible testimony. The real kick to the balls being that even something the test flags as a lie can be used as a truthful admission.
tip i don't see often spread: you can cheat a polygraph by clenching and unclenching your butthole the whole time. Sounds really weird, but its a completely unnoticeable act and it's enough to fool the machine.
Polygraphs are not being used in Germany for that very reason. Scientifically proven to be unreliable.
@@hitzkooler15 scientifically proven to get people to confess some of the time out of fear of being caught lying tho, it's basically a placebo
I think the same with DNA. It is proved to be not 100% unique but used in law to convict people
Just hearing his explanation about what the experiment was actually about and seeing his miniature test is what flipped my perception of this.
11:22 "I'm the guy that's giving the press briefing on this very high profile media case, but idk wtf the timeline looks like" LOL
That right there just SCREAMED set-up to me, tbh.
I've never seen a cop keep talking if he stated he doesn't know the details well enough to make a statement. They are supposed to stfu and move on to the next question, no? That's how a decent cop would do it anyway...not that these people would know what that word even means.
the part that worries me the most it that no one batted an eye when while in the middle of the case they started digging up shit claiming his wife MIGHT be "illegal" and should be deported nevermind the fact that after they won she suddenly was perfectly legal in their eyes.
The ol Obama trick
Our legal system has always done this deportation and child separation ruthlessness.
I think the idea here might be that she was on a green card or visa that said she could be deported due to crime.
The moment she married him, she became a citizen of the US. That's how the law works
@@swamplife3148 obama was legal
*"What would you do"*
Damn the guy was totally innocent, decided to take the hit to protect his family. A real man.
Some people deserve to get their heads blown off
Absolutely. 100%. Crazy bastard, but he did the right thing and won. Good for him.
Man I'm so sorry for this man and his family. There's so many, SOSO MANY bad things I could say, I can't pick just one. This all around awful. Good on you IH for giving him a voice. Very cool of you
what saddens me is I'm sure he's not the only one who went through something like this