Pete Erickson / The Bulletin via AP"Balloons suspend Kent Couch in a lawn chair as
he floats in the skies near Bend, Ore., on Saturday."
he floats in the skies near Bend, Ore., on Saturday."
Wow! I just stumbled across this story at MSNBC.com" of Kent Couch in Bend, Oregon. This has been a fantasy of mine ever since reading of Larry Walters over 25 years ago. Larry Walters was the guy "who in 1982 rose three miles above Los Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by balloons. Walters had surprised an airline pilot, who radioed the LAX control tower that he had just passed a guy in a lawn chair."
It may be we'll see more and more of these strange events in the near future, what with so many of us so desperate to do just about anything to get away from the daily news that so embarrasses/disgusts us all as Americans!
7 comments:
in a wild coincidence, I had just read about this on yahoo.com today & thought of you! Something about an oregon guy, a lawn chair, balloons & beer fairly screamed dada -- assuming I understand dada, which can never be assumed because to understand means it ain't dada. Now there's a circular argument one can never hope to penetrate, unless ... unless they really are dada, right, Dada? ~~ D.K.
Lawn chair ballon riding. Now we have a new excuse for not making it in to work.... sorry the winds have changed shift, I won't be in today!
The guy actually traveled 193 miles with 105 giant balloons. Just when you thought you'd seen it all.
I am so glad that you blogged on this,,,,
it needed to be blogged.
NOW please Someone tell me how does he get down????
They guy launched the lawn chair wearing a parachute, but her devised a way to slowly let air out of some balloons so he could lower himself to the ground. Apparently the FAA had a problem with the previous guy's tactic of blowing balloons out with a gun. Ahhh progress.....
ahhhh progress...thank you for setting me straight....phew- had me worried.
d.k. - I think you were in Dada total submersion when you wrote that. That's because I didn't understand a word of it.
But that's good, right? 'Cause if I did, it wouldn't be Dada then, would it?
got democracy: thanks for clarifying his method for us. I'm encouraged by the progress that's been made in that last 25 years or so.
I'm thinking it's about time to sprout wings and try it. (Make that sprout 'balloons'....mostly because we just returned from Sicko and Up, Up and Away is sounding really good right now.)
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