Just when you thought the whole “Balloon Boy” saga out of Fort Collins couldn’t get any more bizarre, along comes Robert Thomas, an associate of Richard Heene, with the revelation that Heene, the boy’s father, staged the elaborate hoax in an effort to land himself a TV show in order to make enough money to save his family from the coming apocalypse.

According to Thomas’ attorney, Linda Lee, Heene thinks the world is going to end in 2012 and figured that being a TV star would net him enough cash to build an underground bunker “where he can be safe from the sun exploding.” Continue reading »