Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Oh. My. God.

It's deja vu all over again:
Oregon man takes lawn chair up to 13,000 feet, travels 193 miles

By Associated Press

BEND, Ore. (AP) - Last weekend, Bend gas station owner Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some drinks and snacks - and a parachute.

Attached to the lawn chair were 105 balloons of various colors, each 4 feet around. Bundled together, the balloons rise three stories high.

Couch carried a global positioning system device, a two-way radio, a digital camcorder and a cell phone. He also had instruments to measure his altitude and speed and about four plastic bags holding five gallons of water each to act as a ballast - he could turn a spigot, release water and rise.

Destination: Idaho.

Nearly nine hours later, Couch was short of Idaho. But he was 193 miles from home, in a farmer's field near Union, having crossed much of Oregon at 11,000 feet and higher.
Read the whole thing...

The photo at that link is priceless.

2 Comments:

Blogger jackhodgson said...

My headline for this would read: "Oregon Man Attempts to Win 2007 Darwin Award."

11:03 AM  
Blogger DaveFlys said...

Woah...

12:26 PM  

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