Originally Posted by
Darth Lefty
This is a weird thing for a sheriff to say in public into an Internet mad for conspiracies. As plenty well evidenced by the LATimes article below which is almost entirely sourced from a thread on the website that has read it
The facts in the story are still the same regardless. She and her family have the opportunity to explain the oddities at any time, but remaining quiet and keeping the money is a good decision, IMO, since they really can't do so without making things worse.
How many here remember Balloon Boy? I remember at the time instantly thinking the story was BS on seeing the live video of the balloon, which was far too small to carry a child aloft. But far too many people get their physics knowledge from cartoons instead of the science class they slept through.