They should face serious jail time and payback all of the local, state, and federal agencies involved in tracking the flying disc; this would include local emergency personal in the various counties it went through, state police, FAA, NORAD, the Denver, Colorado Airport, and the airlines that had to make its flights longer to avoid the airspace around the flying disc, especially as it got closer to the airport in Denver.
 AP Nov. 13: Mayumi, left, and Richard Heene arrive at district court in Fort Collins, Colo. Nov. 13: Mayumi, left, and Richard Heene arrive at district court in Fort Collins, Colo.
FORT COLLINS, Colorado — The parents who pulled off the balloon boy hoax are already facing the prospect of jail time and paying tens of thousands of dollars in restitution over their stunt. An investigator also wants to forbid the couple from making any money off their newfound fame. "This would hopefully stop the Heenes from being able to exploit their criminal behavior or their children any more than they already have," Heffernan urged District Judge Stephen Schapanski in a letter dated Nov. 30. "All the while the Heenes were playing us all in hopes of making themselves more marketable."
David Lane, Richard Heene's attorney, said nothing in the law allows a judge to impose any such limits.
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