[a fool in paradise]

Up UP and AWAY PING.

[Uncle Chip]

An imitator:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters

[HerrBlucher]

What a Couch potato.

[StormEye]

"They are planning to take off July 14 from the parking lot of Couch's gas station and convenience store in Bend, Ore., the way he did in 2008 when he floated 235 miles to an Idaho farm field..."

Everyone involved with these guys would be wise to just stay out of their way. Those two would-be balloonists are too stupid to talk sense into them. Let them float away and never be heard from again. We'll all be better off in the end.

[mikrofon]

[SamAdams76]

Iraq. Now that’s a fun place to take a balloon trip!

[Joe 6-pack]

There was a Brazilian Priest who tried this a few years ago.

The winds blew him off course. I don't believe his body was ever recovered from the Atlantic.

[gzzimlich]

Why can’t the Iraqi’s guarantee them a secure take-off in a football stadium? The AK bursts aren’t likely to begin until they hit 200-300 feet, at least.

It’d be like a skeet event for people who prefer single handed full-auto shooting while shreiking “Allah Akbar” at the top of their lungs.

[llevrok]

Prediction: Crashes then the families sue the lawn chair manufacturer.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"The men had to scrub a tandem flight last fall after Iraqi officials said they couldn't provide security for the liftoff from a Baghdad soccer stadium"

No $hit ?