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Pair lifts off in tandem lawn chair balloon flight
AP Houston Chronicle ^
| 7/14/12
| JEFF BARNARD,
Posted on 07/14/2012 1:06:45 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
BEND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man and an Iraqi adventurer have taken to the sky in a pair of lawn chairs suspended from helium-filled party balloons.
Cheered by several hundred supporters, Kent Couch and Fareed Lafta lifted off Saturday morning from a Shell gas station in Bend, Ore.
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To: Darksheare
Sure, there’s no known connection between you and DHOLE ...
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posted on
07/14/2012 1:28:46 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("For it is time to seek the LORD, until he come and rain down justice upon you.")
To: gorush
I thought for sure that would be a link to a Death Wish Movie...
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posted on
07/14/2012 1:29:57 PM PDT
by
Las Vegas Ron
(Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
07/14/2012 1:30:29 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
To: Darksheare
You don’t have to admit it ...
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posted on
07/14/2012 1:33:13 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("For it is time to seek the LORD, until he come and rain down justice upon you.")
To: Tax-chick
At least it wasn’t the Hounds of the Tindaloos.
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posted on
07/14/2012 1:39:34 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
To: Uncle Slayton; All
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posted on
07/14/2012 1:54:53 PM PDT
by
stevie_d_64
(It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
To: Uncle Slayton
Hold it! A guy named Couch is flying in a lawnchair?
People, you can’t make this stuff up.
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posted on
07/14/2012 1:57:43 PM PDT
by
twoputt
To: Uncle Slayton
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posted on
07/14/2012 1:58:29 PM PDT
by
YHAOS
(you betcha!)
To: Uncle Slayton
To: bushbuddy
Well, you just don’t find too many people named
Lawnchair flying in a couch.
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posted on
07/14/2012 2:20:05 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: stevio
on Mythbusters IIRC it was about 10,000 feet ,vertical.
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posted on
07/14/2012 2:48:06 PM PDT
by
moose07
(The truth will out, one day.)
To: moose07
Well they were scheduled to lift off at 10:00 AM, yet their supposed real time map shows they haven't left Bend. Not sure that's a good sign, sounds like a Trisha Toyota moment. For those from So. Cal and have been here a while you will know what I mean.
For those who don't know, Trisa Toyota was a NBC? Reporter whom did a lot of live remotes from various LA area tragedies back in the 70’s / 80’s
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posted on
07/14/2012 3:09:34 PM PDT
by
DAC21
To: Uncle Slayton
Hopefully they don't get carried away....
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posted on
07/14/2012 3:47:05 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Satellite Sofa)
To: Ben Hecks
Ahhh Yes — Lawn Chair Larry Walters. First Lawn Chair Flight in 1982. Who could forget it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters
The least these latecomers could do is use certified Lawn Chair Larry balloons, lawn chairs, and air rifles. But No!!! He’s just a forgotten memory except on wikipedia and around LA International — and the Smithsonian.
To: Uncle Chip
“Lawn Chair Larry”
He’s related to Leisure Suit Larry, right?
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posted on
07/14/2012 7:02:47 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply ! ! ..)
To: gorush
I never saw that...would you suggest I do? (No TV here, Netflix is our only visual entertainment)
I saw it on TV when I was about 17. It was entertaining. And it's
With Six You Get Eggroll. Ha ha. I misremembered. It's a Doris Day, Brian Keith movie.
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posted on
07/14/2012 9:52:11 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Darksheare; Tax-chick
” Do I still get to deny involvement? “
Too late....we have you on video.
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posted on
07/16/2012 9:41:40 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: Uncle Slayton
No wonder we’re running out of Helium.
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posted on
07/16/2012 9:43:40 AM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(The only Fair Tax is a Flat Tax. Anything else is Indentured Servitude of the Successful.)
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