Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:16:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: bees on the wing
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

--- ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>
> Don't forget 'Lawn Chair Larry', winner of a 1982
> Honorable Mention in
> the Darwin Awards competition.  Larry bought 45
> weather balloons, tied 42
> of them to his lawn chair, and attained an altitude
> of some 16,000 feet
> over Los Angeles, to the consternation of air
> traffic controllers.  The
> police were waiting when he eventually landed.
>

Is that the guy whose plan for getting back down to
the ground consisted of bringing a pellet gun with him
to shoot the balloons, one by one?

Have to admit, it all sounded like an urban legend to
me when I first heard it...

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Rich Lynch
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