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An Odd Trip

12:14, 2008-Jul-6 .. Posted in news .. 1 comments .. Link

An Oregon man, Kent Couch, realized his dream on Satirday by flying in a balloon-suspended lawnchair from Oregon to Idaho. He flew 235 miles in nine hours in a lawn chair attached to 150 giant, helium-filled, party balloons.

Flying about 100 to 200 feet from the ground, he ended his trip by shooting some of the balloons with a BB gun to lower himself to the ground.

"If I had the time and money and people, I'd do this every weekend," Couch said before getting into the chair. "Things just look different from up there. You've moving so slowly. The best thing is the peace, the serenity."

I had to laugh when I heard about this -- it sounded exactly like something Homer Simpson would do. And, in fact, there was a King of the Hill episode, where Bill Dauterive did this very thing, though, of course, it didn't turn out as well for Bill as it did for Kent Couch, as you would imagine.

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10:25, 2008-Jul-19 .. Posted by littleMissConfused
I'm too afraid of heights to try that, but it does look like it could be fun. I bet he got an eyeful going over some yards. He would be so quite no one would hear him coming!