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the lawn chair balloonist |
| Published: July 10, 2007, 6:43 pm |
| Tags: lawn chair balloonist, curiosities, kent couch |
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From the Seattle Times:BEND, Ore. 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.And of course, the inevitable mention of Darwin Awards special prize nominee Larry Walters, who just wanted to have a beer or two while watching the sunset.Couch, 47, is the latest American to emulate Larry [ Full article ] |
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