I always get chills when IH describes the prosecution's main evidence as "the tesitimony of a sleep deprived 6 year old who's not even really listening to the question." That's always when it really hits home for me. Something IH could have also mentioned (during the launch video) is that Brandon is the one who brings up the idea that Falcon is in the ship, and Richard sternly refutes him at first. That alone was very convincing for me. Richard wasn't freaking out about Falcon at first, he was completely focused on chewing out his wife (like an ass, admittedly) for not tying the balloon down properly. If the video was staged, he would have been expressing concern for Falcon from the start.
Whenever I see these historical cases, I _always_ find that when all evidence is assembled, the truth becomes clear. ALL the evidence, from computer data to all paperwork in the house to individual, away-from-interference interview, to scummy police practice, to a criminal police cheif, points to a child saying something and the world running with it.
Just FYI Kip in 2020 (four years after the video came out) Heene was officially pardoned by the Colorado governor. I don’t know if he got any restitution but his name is ,from a legal standpoint, cleared
If it was genuinely a hoax that kid in the liftoff should have gone to hollywood ASAP, imagine having a child actor that fucking talented. People would bend over backwards for good child actors, and that was an insane one-take performance. Also didnt break during a police interrogation without supervision, absolute legend.
IH did 2 follow-up videos about this. One being a q and a about everything they talked about in the initial video. And the second being an actual responce from Richard Heene himself with in depth detail and receipts about the prosecution against him and his family.
6:10 sorry Kip , but i can't judge a man's ENTIRE life character and personality just because of a 20 sec clip of him freaking out . Especially after his several month project just went to waste , for a negligence caused by his wife. We can however judge the actions of the law enforcement
No no, Richard was a major asshole to his wife. Not to mention he was kind of fucking stupid for not tying the lines down himself *before* he started filling it up.
Ehhhh....... I don't think this 'proves' anything, but it really is a pretty shitty reaction. Like, as the inventor, you should probably double check this stuff yourself, right? I understand it, but it still feels like a crappy reaction to have. Like it gives off a pretty uncomfortable vibe, you know? I wouldn't say this means anything definitive, but if he actually was crappy to her in private I wouldn't be THAT surprised.
@@macdaddy1376 Ehhh, I dunno about that... like I'm not going to make any definitive statements about someone that's panicking, but that's still kind-of fucked.
"Pretty sure it's illegal" There's a consistent history of law enforcement doing underhanded or illegal things to get the confessions they want, John Oliver has a good episode on the subject. It's not out of the realm of possibility that these things were done to force a confession that the prosecution wanted.
I had heard of this incident in passing and have practically memorized these details. If Falcon managed to sneak into that balloon/have the instinct to try and weigh it down in a different situation, this whole incident could have gone completely differently. Spending twenty minutes talking to the 911 operator and getting put on hold three times in a situation where parents believed their child's life was in danger is certainly fair reasoning to get a news chopper involved in order to force the police into action. Cops found no evidence of the incident being a hoax. The kids had no parental supervision during police interviews as they probably kept giving the truth. Which gave the police nothing to work with. That guilty plea in a lose-lose situation probably was the best option to take without Richard digging himself further into a worse losing position. I'm glad he got pardoned. This whole incident should probably be a good lesson on what police incompetence looks like, as well as media stupidity.
Just imagining what would happen if the kid actually was inside the balloon and they stayed with 9/11, being continuously put on hold because they don't have any standard procedure for something as unusual as "child runs away via. flying machine" and the kid DIED or something........ Just holy shit, this would be such a different story. I mean, as bad as it was, imagine if the news never intervened and there was just a child lost out in the desert who knows where after this on their own. It's completely understandable for him to call the news, even though it also screwed them over in the long run in a way nobody could have predicted.
Mr. Kip… Kip-San, if I may…… mr. Kip, Internet historian reached out to him and did an interview on his second channel, incognito mode. It’s DEFINITELY worth a watch! Edit: Shit I fucked that up! I meant to say Mr. Heeney reached out to internet historian!
The second channel video on this opens up a lot more. Going over more info. It's really good. Also, I want a Bear Scratch, I would use that thing so much.
There was a movie back in the 50s i think called a ticklish affair. Where this sort of scenario plays out over 1950s san diego. And theres a navy airship chase.
I always get chills when IH describes the prosecution's main evidence as
"the tesitimony of a sleep deprived 6 year old who's not even really listening to the question."
That's always when it really hits home for me.
Something IH could have also mentioned (during the launch video) is that Brandon is the one who brings up the idea that Falcon is in the ship, and Richard sternly refutes him at first. That alone was very convincing for me. Richard wasn't freaking out about Falcon at first, he was completely focused on chewing out his wife (like an ass, admittedly) for not tying the balloon down properly. If the video was staged, he would have been expressing concern for Falcon from the start.
Whenever I see these historical cases, I _always_ find that when all evidence is assembled, the truth becomes clear. ALL the evidence, from computer data to all paperwork in the house to individual, away-from-interference interview, to scummy police practice, to a criminal police cheif, points to a child saying something and the world running with it.
Just FYI Kip in 2020 (four years after the video came out) Heene was officially pardoned by the Colorado governor. I don’t know if he got any restitution but his name is ,from a legal standpoint, cleared
Oh thank god he got a good thing that he rightfully deserved
@@jehoiakimelidoronila5450 No he did not get a "good thing" he got the absolute bare fucking minimum.
If it was genuinely a hoax that kid in the liftoff should have gone to hollywood ASAP, imagine having a child actor that fucking talented.
People would bend over backwards for good child actors, and that was an insane one-take performance. Also didnt break during a police interrogation without supervision, absolute legend.
IH did 2 follow-up videos about this. One being a q and a about everything they talked about in the initial video. And the second being an actual responce from Richard Heene himself with in depth detail and receipts about the prosecution against him and his family.
6:10 sorry Kip , but i can't judge a man's ENTIRE life character and personality just because of a 20 sec clip of him freaking out . Especially after his several month project just went to waste , for a negligence caused by his wife.
We can however judge the actions of the law enforcement
No no, Richard was a major asshole to his wife. Not to mention he was kind of fucking stupid for not tying the lines down himself *before* he started filling it up.
Ehhhh.......
I don't think this 'proves' anything, but it really is a pretty shitty reaction. Like, as the inventor, you should probably double check this stuff yourself, right? I understand it, but it still feels like a crappy reaction to have. Like it gives off a pretty uncomfortable vibe, you know? I wouldn't say this means anything definitive, but if he actually was crappy to her in private I wouldn't be THAT surprised.
@@dracocrusher fair enough.
@@dracocrusher its the most reasonable reaction you can ever give
@@macdaddy1376 Ehhh, I dunno about that... like I'm not going to make any definitive statements about someone that's panicking, but that's still kind-of fucked.
"Pretty sure it's illegal"
There's a consistent history of law enforcement doing underhanded or illegal things to get the confessions they want, John Oliver has a good episode on the subject. It's not out of the realm of possibility that these things were done to force a confession that the prosecution wanted.
I had heard of this incident in passing and have practically memorized these details. If Falcon managed to sneak into that balloon/have the instinct to try and weigh it down in a different situation, this whole incident could have gone completely differently. Spending twenty minutes talking to the 911 operator and getting put on hold three times in a situation where parents believed their child's life was in danger is certainly fair reasoning to get a news chopper involved in order to force the police into action. Cops found no evidence of the incident being a hoax. The kids had no parental supervision during police interviews as they probably kept giving the truth. Which gave the police nothing to work with. That guilty plea in a lose-lose situation probably was the best option to take without Richard digging himself further into a worse losing position. I'm glad he got pardoned. This whole incident should probably be a good lesson on what police incompetence looks like, as well as media stupidity.
Just imagining what would happen if the kid actually was inside the balloon and they stayed with 9/11, being continuously put on hold because they don't have any standard procedure for something as unusual as "child runs away via. flying machine" and the kid DIED or something........
Just holy shit, this would be such a different story. I mean, as bad as it was, imagine if the news never intervened and there was just a child lost out in the desert who knows where after this on their own. It's completely understandable for him to call the news, even though it also screwed them over in the long run in a way nobody could have predicted.
Mr. Kip… Kip-San, if I may…… mr. Kip, Internet historian reached out to him and did an interview on his second channel, incognito mode. It’s DEFINITELY worth a watch!
Edit: Shit I fucked that up! I meant to say Mr. Heeney reached out to internet historian!
The second channel video on this opens up a lot more. Going over more info. It's really good.
Also, I want a Bear Scratch, I would use that thing so much.
There was a movie back in the 50s i think called a ticklish affair. Where this sort of scenario plays out over 1950s san diego. And theres a navy airship chase.
I would be pissed too if i spent lots on money on three helium tanks just to have it fucking blow away.
Gotta say this whole thing was a spring loaded mess.
So china was watching this too... intrusting considering whet that did with a bigger balloon