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    LAWN CHAIR
    LARRY!!!


    This has got to be the weirdest moving violation in the history of moving!

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    "On July 2nd, 1982, Larry tied 42 helium-filled balloons to a Sears lawn chair in the backyard of his girlfriend's house in San Pedro, California. With the help of his ground crew, Larry then secured himself into the lawn chair which was anchored to the bumper of a friend's car by two nylon tethers. He took with him many supplies, including a BB gun to shoot out the balloons when he was ready to descend. His goal was to sail across the desert and hopefully make it to the Rocky Mountains in a few days. But things didn't quite work out for Larry. After his crew purposely cut the first tether, the second one also snapped which shot Larry into the LA sky at over 1,000 feet per minute. So fast was his ascent that he lost his glasses. He then climbed to over 16,000 feet. For several hours he drifted in the cold air near the LA and Long Beach airports. A TWA pilot first spotted Larry and radioed the tower that he was passing a guy in a lawn chair at 16,000!"


    Another (very funny) excerpt~

    "We know he broke some part of the Federal Aviation Act, and as soon as we decide which part it is, some type of charge will be filed," Mr. Savoy said. "If he had a pilot's license, we'd suspend that. But he doesn't."

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    Where do you find this stuff?????
    One of woman's cardinal rule: Body parts can be fake,everything else has to be real.

    一个女人的枢机规则:肢体可以伪造,一切必须真实.

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    Default Re: And the 'Balls of steel/Brain of Concrete" award goes to...

    Quote Originally Posted by onlythebest
    Where do you find this stuff?????
    I'm Vewy, vewy quiet...


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    Quote Originally Posted by Madcap
    I'm Vewy, vewy quiet...
    LOL,that is too cute!!!
    One of woman's cardinal rule: Body parts can be fake,everything else has to be real.

    一个女人的枢机规则:肢体可以伪造,一切必须真实.

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    I saw this. Only a Californian. LMAO

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    When you lead a nontraditional life don't try to measure it with traditional milestones.

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    Default Re: And the 'Balls of steel/Brain of Concrete" award goes to...

    Quote Originally Posted by Bridgette
    Only a Californian. LMAO
    This was back in the "Camelot" days of California with Jerry Brown as Governor and Linda Ronstadt as the first girlfriend. We've come a long way, babe. Look who's governor now!

    For the life of me I can't think of why I didn't try this stunt when I was in high school. Or at least goad one of my moron friends to try it.

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    *ssssssmack!!* Yoo ah awll a banch uff guhlie men!!

    Quote Originally Posted by pheno View Post
    When you lead a nontraditional life don't try to measure it with traditional milestones.

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    Default Re: And the 'Balls of steel/Brain of Concrete" award goes to...

    What a moron...took a shotgun to shoot out the balloons when he was ready to descend? Ookie dokie. Never mind that he has no parachute.

    Sometimes some people are just too fucking dumb to die. LOL Unbelieveable.

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    "Mythbusters" did a debunking of this. They duplicated it, even adding more balloons, and they were able to float a little bit.

    However, snopes.com says it's a true story, and in fact, that it happened more than once. They report on it here:

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    Default Re: And the 'Balls of steel/Brain of Concrete" award goes to...

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay Zeno
    "Mythbusters" did a debunking of this. They duplicated it, even adding more balloons, and they were able to float a little bit.

    What sized baloons did they use? Lawn Chair Larry used like 45 7-8 footers, on Darwinawards.com it's reported as 45 four footers (which is impossible).

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    He got the Darwin for it?????

    Then I guess they don't have to worry about suspending his non-esistent piolet's licence . . . . . . :


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    Default Re: And the 'Balls of steel/Brain of Concrete" award goes to...

    Quote Originally Posted by colleen
    He got the Darwin for it?????
    Nope. Honorable mention. But kickin' that you are familliar with the Darwins... LOL! They rock!

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