[Uncle Slayton]

"The flight is a warm-up for plans to fly a tandem lawn chair balloon rig in Baghdad sometime in the future."

I don't foresee any problems that could arise on that flight.

[Past Your Eyes]

Considering those Arabs seem to love to fire automatic weapons into the air for any reason or none at all, what could possibly go wrong?

[Track9]

I hope they remembered their pellet guns.

[Cementjungle]

Here’s the official web site:

http://www.couchballoons.com/

[skeeter]

This is nice & everything, but how is it a gas station owner from Bend got partnered up with an Iraqi adventurer to fly a lawn chair across country?

[gorush]

They must have watched “Danny Deckchair”.

[Tax-chick]

There could be a hit novel in this ... although the connection with the Ancient Ones has not yet (as it were) surfaced.

[Gator113]

Crazy, but it ought to be exciting.

[stevio]

Right. As long as they don’t fly over a wedding celebration. How far up can an AK shoot?

[Focault's Pendulum]

[mdittmar]

http://weather.weatherbug.com/WA/Yakima-weather/severe-weather/local-alerts.html?zcode=z6286&alert_state=WA&alert_id=nws97561002rWA675

[LukeL]

I thik I saw this on the A-Team

[stevie_d_64]

“Up?”

[twoputt]

Hold it! A guy named Couch is flying in a lawnchair?

People, you can’t make this stuff up.

[YHAOS]

Darwin Award wannabes!

[Ben Hecks]

The first balloon flight in 1982:

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Walters-BalloonRide.htm

[mikrofon]

Hopefully they don't get carried away....

[Kickass Conservative]

No wonder we’re running out of Helium.