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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
New games based on Balloon Boy fake-adventures hit the net
As if throwing up on national TV wasn’t bad enough, now there are a handful of Internet video games mocking Balloon Boy and his non-adventure last week in his dad’s weirdo helium balloon.
Heyzap is among websites offering Balloon Boy based games.
Its game is aptly called “Balloon Boy Game.”
The game has Falcon Heene, forever more known as ‘Balloon Boy,’ hanging from his dad’s silver helium balloon. The objective involves shooting birds and other items before they get Balloon Boy.
Balloon Boy was never in danger of being attacked by birds or anything else.
In what is being called a publicity stunt, Falcon’s parents told authorities last week that the 6-year-old had sailed a way in helium weather balloon. He was found hiding in his parent’s Colorado home.
Turns out the child was never in the balloon and popped his parents bubble during a taping of CNN’s ” Larry King Live” Thursday, Oct. 15.
In the CNN interview, Falcon said he didn’t come out of his hiding place when called because his family “did it for the show.”
Officials now say Balloon Boy’s parents cooked the whole scheme up in hopes it would land them a reality show.
Fort Collins, Colo. officials say findings will be forwarded to prosecutors next week to decide if Richard and Mayumi Heene should be charged with falsely reporting that Falcon had drifted away in a large home-built helium balloon.
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Wright State grad wins $250,000, proves she is ” Smarter than a 5th grader”
In a show that aired Monday, Oct. 19, former Beavercreek resident Elizabeth Miller-Deister proved she is smarter than a 5th grader.
The 29-year-old Wright State University graduate became the first person to win the top prize - $250,000 - on the syndicated version of “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?”
The pregnant stay-at-home mom correctly answered ‘Haiti’ to the following World History bonus question on the game show hosted by Jeff Foxworthy :
Q: In 1804, an army composed primarily of former slaves defeated their colonial masters to form what modern Caribbean country? question:
See a clip of Miller-Deister’s victory here.
Miller-Deister and her husband Jesse, a Wright State grad raised partly in Beavercreek, moved from Beavercreek about a year ago. Several Dayton area people attended the show’s taping.
The Deisters said there has been nothing but excitement since the show aired.
The couple was featured on an LA FOX station and in a front page article in the Los Angeles Daily News.
They were also interviewed by “Inside Edition.”
Miller Deister said the show was tougher than it looked.
“I really thought about the questions for a long time,” she said. “They cut out a lot of my reasoning.”
Jesse Deister didn’t know the show’s outcome until after watching it. He said he didn’t want to know and his wife wasn’t suppose to say.
“I wanted to build that suspense… We just made rules not to talk about,” he said. “The only thing I really cared about was if is she had a good time.”
Deister, the son of Dr. Chris and Jan Deister of Beavercreek, said that he was stumped by many of the questions his wife correctly answered.
“She just keep coming up with answers,” the medical sales worker said. “I feel blessed to have the opportunity and even more blessed to have a wife smart enough to capitalize on that opportunity. ”
The couple said they are not sure yet what to do with the winnings. In an effort to ‘pay it forward,’ they will donate or gift a portion of the money.
“We will probably do something boring like invest it,” Jesse Deister said. “It’s not a very fun answer, it not a very Hollywood answer.”
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