Evidently orchestrating a hoax involving a Mylar weather balloon and your 6-year-old son is against the law. Go figure.

Richard Heene, father of Falcon Heene, the Fort Collins, Colorado boy made famous after it was believed he was ridding in an experimental helium balloon, according to Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden, will be charged in connection to the hoax. A hoax designed by Richard Heene in the hopes that the publicity would get him back on TV. The Heene family appeared on the ABC reality show Wife Swap. It’s this stupid show where women from two families “swap” places and then we the television viewers get to watch the high jinks that somehow always ensue.

It’s as though the families are working off a script or something.

The boy of course was not in the balloon, but instead was hiding in a box in the attic. The family later appeared on CNN and 6-year-old Falcon blurted out “we did this for a show.” Unfortunately for CNN, Wolf Blitzer was conducting the interview and he was too stupid to realize what young Falcon had just said.

Sheriff’s deputies and detectives were seen entering the Heene home early this morning to conduct a search of the home. Undoubtedly they found lots and lots of evidence that can be used against Heene. This guy appears to be too stupid to have gotten rid of anything that would point to his guilt.