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Someone’s seen the movie ‘Up’ a few too many times, but holy crap . .
Canada Free Press ^ | 07/07/15 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 07/07/2015 5:47:24 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

. . . "he was at cloud level,' in a freaking lawn chair.

Dude, come on. You do know that Up was a movie, right? An animated movie, dude. You can’t tie a hundred helium balloons together and use them to go flying. This is real life. It doesn’t work that way, dude. You’re not getting up in the air sitting in a lawn chair you bought for $20 at the corner store, and you’re not going flying, so just forget about this whole thing and . . . holy crap!

And sure enough, up went 26-year-old Daniel Boria of Calgary, all the way to what was described as “cloud level” at one point. And he did all this as a publicity stunt to promote his cleaning products company. I kid you not.

Of course, this is Canada, where they’ll prosecute you if you preach the Gospel, so you have to know that if you do something like this they’re going to find a reason to arrest you. The reason? Hey! That chair was going to come down eventually and it might fall on someone’s head!


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: balloons; lawnchair

1 posted on 07/07/2015 5:47:24 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

So what was his plan for coming down? Did he have a peashooter or BB gun to pop one balloon at a time?


2 posted on 07/07/2015 5:49:20 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC-Km7aUjgc

If the balloons are big enough, you can.


3 posted on 07/07/2015 5:53:28 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Sean_Anthony
this is Canada, where they’ll prosecute you if you preach the Gospel

Secondary to socialist homofascism Canada is famous for. Coming soon to a certain 'land of the free and home of the brave' near you.
4 posted on 07/07/2015 6:01:35 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: Sean_Anthony

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.


5 posted on 07/07/2015 6:02:08 AM PDT by tm61 (Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
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To: akalinin

That was the whole point all along...


6 posted on 07/07/2015 6:05:00 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

The Left continues to produce Darwin Award winners at a record pace...


7 posted on 07/07/2015 6:24:17 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: tm61

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.


8 posted on 07/07/2015 7:04:40 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: Portcall24

I believe, somewhere there is an audio of his exploit.


9 posted on 07/07/2015 9:26:43 AM PDT by Conservative4Ever (Hey Hillary, ... liar, liar pants on fire.-)
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To: tm61

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


10 posted on 07/07/2015 10:37:00 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: tm61

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.


11 posted on 07/07/2015 10:44:26 AM PDT by tanknetter
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