some guy in Az or California did that years ago., strapped about 20 or more weather ballons to a lawn chair, and took off with a pellet gun so he could shoot them to control his height
but, he dropped it. whoops,
evenutally he came back down, got arrested and wound up on the tonight show, or Letterman. his 15 minutes of fame.
Yes. In LA. He drifted into the traffic pattern at LAX and they had to divert traffic. He then drifted into the San Bernardino Mountains and came down on a power line but unhurt.
The LA dude’s name was Larry Waters... and he launched himself in 1982 -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters
Some contemporary video here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFFVVo9usFY
The guy was lucky he dropped his pellet gun.
Using it to pick off the balloons one at at time might have been ok. But chances were that unless he was prettrlt precise with his aim, the pellet would take out one balloon, then punch clean through to take out a second, and maybe a third and even a fourth.
Which wouldn’t have been ok.