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Nascent Drama

and soared over a coffee cart and across U.S. Highway 20 into a bright blue sky.
 
"If I had the time and money and people, I'd do this every weekend," Couch said before getting into the chair. "Things just look different from up there.
 
You've moving so slowly. The best thing is the peace, the serenity.
 
"Originally, I wanted to do it because of boyhood dreams.
 
I don't know about girls, but I think most guys look up in the sky and wish they could ride on a cloud."
 
Couch's wife, Susan, called him crazy:
 
"It's never been a dull moment since I married him."
 
This was Couch's third balloon flight. He realized it would be possible after watching a TV show about the 1982 lawn chair flight over Los Angeles of truck driver Larry Walters, who gained folk hero fame but was fined $1,500 for violating air traffic rules.
 
In 2006, Couch had to parachute out after popping too many balloons. And last year he flew 193 miles to the sagebrush of northeastern Oregon, short of his goal.
 
"I'm not stopping till I get out of state," he said.
 
To that end, he ordered more balloons. Dozens of volunteers wearing fluorescent green T-shirts that said "Dream Big" filled latex balloons 5 feet in diameter, attached them to strings and tied clusters of six balloons each to a tiny carabiner clip.
 
Each balloon gives four pounds of lift. The chair was about 400 pounds, and Couch and his parachute 200 more.
 
"I'd go to 30,000 feet if I didn't shoot a balloon down periodically," Couch said.
 
For that job, he carried a Red Ryder BB gun and a blow gun equipped with steel darts. He also had a pole with a hook for pulling in balloons, a parachute in case anything went wrong, a handheld Global Positioning System device with altimeter, a satellite phone, and two GPS tracking devices. One was one for him, the other for the chair, which got away in the wind as he landed last year.
 
For food he carried some boiled eggs, jerky and chocolate.
 
Couch flew hang gliders and skydived before taking up lawn-chair flights. He estimated the rig cost about $6,000, mostly for helium. Costs were defrayed by corporate sponsors.
 
seriously stop postin in this topic
idiots
 
before the first lokgay post,this topic was awesome
 
Loktar said:
Yes and then create his own line of lameass Mugen videogames for it.
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Which his Mom will have to buy for him.
 
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