What happened after the infamous 2009 hoax?

Netflix’s Trainwreck docuseries has covered everything from 2013’s Carnival “Poop Cruise” to the deadly crowd crush at 2021’s Astroworld Music Festival. Now the series turns its lens on one of the most bizarre news stories of the 21st century: 2009’s Balloon Boy hoax.

Trainwreck: Balloon Boy revisits the nearly two-hour-long period …