Man flies 200 miles in his lawn chair

[Jake]

CAMBRIDGE, Idaho (AP) - Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho.

(His) wife, Susan, called him crazy: "It's never been a dull moment since I married him."




My Way News - Ore. man completes flight of fancy - in lawn chair

 

[OregonBuckeye]

For food he carried some boiled eggs, jerky and chocolate.

 

[Jake]

For food he carried some boiled eggs, jerky and chocolate.

The Breakfast of Champions. :p

 

[CCI]

CAMBRIDGE, Idaho (AP) - Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho.

(His) wife, Susan, called him crazy: "It's never been a dull moment since I married him."




My Way News - Ore. man completes flight of fancy - in lawn chair

Holy shit

One good thing about it he saved gas $$

 

[coastalbuck]

For food he carried some boiled eggs, jerky and chocolate.

Must be how he steered......

 

[Mac]

How the hell did he go to the bathroom...I feel bad for the people below!


For some reason, all I could think of was the quote that Will Ferrell says in Wedding Crashers...."Aaaahhh, I'm hang-gliding! Take a good picture, honey, I'm dead. What an idiot." haha

 

[OCBuckWife]

Kent Couch has done this before too. He has his own website about it.

 

[Jake]

Kent Couch has done this before too. He has his own website about it.

Kent Couch, you say?

Kent Couch created a sensation in this tiny farming community, where he touched down safely in a pasture after lifting off from Bend, Ore., and was soon greeted by dozens of people who gave him drinks of water, local plumber Mark Hetz said.

Someone didn't read the linked article.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Look!.....Up in the sky.....It's a Bird?.....It's a Plane?.....It's an asshole in a lawnchair.

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

Costs were defrayed by corporate sponsors

That's the second weirdest thing from Oregon that has corporate sponsors.
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Alternatively: Man, that Phil Knight will sponsor anything.