[dalereed]

"thought that surplus weather baloons were just for attaching lawn chairs to."

Never thought about attaching them to the neighbors lawn chairs filled with hydrogen and sending them to some unknown part of the city!

[Orangedog]

Then you obviously missed the 1997 Darwin Award honorable mention! Granted, he was using helium, but you get the idea.

http://www.aps.org/apsnews/0198/019814.html

[Vermonter]

Long time no see dale.

Seems some guys I knew would borrow a rope from someone's flag pole and then go wait at a bus stop. While someone asked the driver for directions, someone else might tie the metal litter basket to the back of the bus.

Sometimes this litter basket would follow the bus down the road ;-}