Up, up and away...

Gettin' high pt II - the story about Larry Walters, who attached quite a number (42 to be exact) of weather balloons to a lawn chair in the backyard of a house in San Pedro, California, and then freaked out as he was literally catapulted to a height of 16,000 feet heading for Los Angeles. "A TWA pilot first spotted Larry and radioed the tower that he was passing a guy in a lawn chair at 16,000!" Click on the picture to read the (lengthy) story... The Prodigy have a killer track ("Hot Ride") on their last album 'Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned' that makes for a perfect inflight entertainment. Excerpt: "Hot ride in my air balloon / Skippin fast right around the moon / On a bullet train out of town / Walkie talkie, one hand down" - not only did Larry drop his walkie talkie on his way up, he also lost the pellet gun he intended to use to shoot the balloons with to descend... the website doesn't tell whether he was wearing a leisure suit on his trip.