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Man parachutes from balloon-lifted lawn chair
UPI ^ | Dec. 23, 2014 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 12/23/2014 6:55:37 PM PST by Duke C.

skydiving daredevil floated 8,000 feet into the air over Utah on a lawn chair tied to balloons before shooting the balloons with a shotgun.

Erik Roner, who filmed the stunt, tied 90 balloons to his lawn chair and reached an altitude of 8,000 feet before using his shotgun to take out the balloons and leaping from the chair.

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1 posted on 12/23/2014 6:55:37 PM PST by Duke C.
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To: Duke C.

God bless these people!


2 posted on 12/23/2014 6:56:36 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Duke C.

Here, hold muh beer!


3 posted on 12/23/2014 6:57:17 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Duke C.
UN RIke.....he want to use this to raunch his space ploglam!!


4 posted on 12/23/2014 6:57:59 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Duke C.

Nucking futts is the only phrase that comes to mind.


5 posted on 12/23/2014 6:59:24 PM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: Duke C.

Hung onto the shotgun, lost the chair. Good decision.


6 posted on 12/23/2014 6:59:33 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Duke C.

I always wanted to do that!


7 posted on 12/23/2014 6:59:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I love the movie “Up!”


8 posted on 12/23/2014 7:00:59 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: Duke C.

That one’s on my bucket list.


9 posted on 12/23/2014 7:02:51 PM PST by BipolarBob
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To: Duke C.

I htink I woulda jumped and then shot the balloons. Wouldnt want to get tangled in the strings or chair.


10 posted on 12/23/2014 7:03:29 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Duke C.

This was a great stunt, but not something that I or other parachutists wouldn’t do.

It’s really just parachuting.


11 posted on 12/23/2014 7:04:56 PM PST by ansel12
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To: Duke C.

Larry Walters did it first without the sponsorship or help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters
This is the original “hold my beer” guy.

Merry Christmas Freepers!


12 posted on 12/23/2014 7:09:56 PM PST by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: Duke C.

A guy did a similar stunt in Long Beach, years ago, except he used a pellet gun, and just kept popping the balloons in order for his lawn chair to descend. Feds prosecuted him, he was near LGB airport’s flight path. A commercial flight passed him, the pilot and first officer couldn’t believe their eyes ! He made it to 15,000 ft. “Lawnchair” Larry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters


13 posted on 12/23/2014 7:12:21 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: bleach

You beat me :)


14 posted on 12/23/2014 7:12:56 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: jttpwalsh

I’m planning to be Barcalounger Larry.


15 posted on 12/23/2014 7:14:49 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Duke C.
skydiving daredevil floated 8,000 feet into the air over Utah on a lawn chair tied to balloons before shooting the balloons with a shotgun.

Great American stunt! Never hear about this kind of stuff with a shotgun in other countries. God bless America!

16 posted on 12/23/2014 7:15:24 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Just say NO to Bush in 2016.)
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To: Larry Lucido

You’re gonna need a bigger balloon ! Thanks for the reply :)


17 posted on 12/23/2014 7:17:18 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: Duke C.
(Typed while watching the fill and launch) Balloons popping at ground level is a very bad sign. As you go up the pressure drops and the balloons will expand even more. If they are all the way full to bursting at ground level you won't get very high before the big "Boom" and you start falling even without the shotgun.

I was right, they started popping in flight.

I know all the rules about opening or unloading your shotgun up while crossing a fence while hunting so you don't have any accidental discharge while crossing. Just imagine how much more dangerous it is to go parachuting and waving your loaded shotgun around.

18 posted on 12/23/2014 7:17:35 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: jttpwalsh

Wasn’t this a Darwin Award entry several years back. The story IIRC was a guy in California tried this and tied a rope to the truck so the lounge chair would only go up 50 or so feet. He had a BB gun and was going to shoot balloons to lower up himself.

Story goes, the rope got loose and the guy floated above LAX.


19 posted on 12/23/2014 7:18:39 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Groupthink is torture. Arrest liberal college professors.)
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To: Duke C.

I’d have to be good and drunk before I tried a stunt like this.


20 posted on 12/23/2014 7:20:00 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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