FORT COLLINS, Colo.—Some suggested fishing hooks. Others, skydivers.
Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden says spectators sent him plenty of real-time suggestions last week on how to capture the large helium balloon that a Fort Collins couple said was carrying their 6-year-old son. The boy was later found at home. Alderden says investigators believe the couple’s report was a hoax, which the boy’s parents have denied.
In his online newsletter Thursday, Alderden comments on e-mails he received from around the world, some of them calling him Barney Fife, gullible, and fat and bald with an overinflated ego.
He concedes he’s fat and bald.
Though Alderden appeared on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” Monday, he says in his newsletter that he really doesn’t enjoy being in the media spotlight.
