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91. The Balloon Boy (Richard Heene)

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The Heenies of Colorado

Richard Heenie and Myumi Ayazuka met in 1997 at the Least Rossburg Theater and Film Institute in Hollywood. The couple lived in Burbank sinking deeper into debt every day. Richard would intercept thunderstorms and dust devils in the California desert trying to prove his theory that rotating storms create their own magnetic fields. In 2001 Bradford and Rio appeared in an instructional video produced by their father called Box Time.

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