July 16, 2025
The Origin Of Weird: Lawn Chair Larry
Ever wondered what would happen if you tied 45 giant weather balloons to a lawn chair? In 1982, truck driver Larry Walters answered this question with an adventure that transformed him from an ordinary man with a dream into an aviation legend.
After being denied his childhood ambition of becoming an Air Force pilot due to poor eyesight, Larry took matters into his own hands. Armed with a Sears aluminum lawn chair (which he named "Inspiration One"), weather balloons acquired through forged military requisition forms, a BB gun, and a six-pack of beer, Larry cut the anchor cord expecting a gentle ascent to 30 feet. What followed was anything but gentle.
Instead of floating lazily above his neighborhood, Larry rocketed to 16,000 feet, drifting into controlled airspace near Los Angeles International Airport. Commercial pilots radioed the control tower about "a man in a lawn chair floating at 16,000 feet holding a pistol." When he accidentally dropped his BB gun – his only means of popping balloons to descend – Larry found himself truly at the mercy of the winds.
The journey ended with Larry tangled in power lines, causing a neighborhood blackout before he climbed down unharmed into the waiting arms of bewildered police officers. When reporters asked why he'd attempted such a dangerous stunt, his deadpan reply became iconic: "A man can't just sit around."
Though the FAA fined him $1,500, Larry's lawn chair eventually found its way into the Smithsonian, and his flight inspired an extreme sport called "cluster ballooning." His story reminds us that sometimes the most extraordinary adventures come not from elaborate planning but from simple, determined dreams and the courage to look ridiculous in pursuit of them.
What wild dream have you been putting off? Maybe Larry's story is the sign you've been waiting for to take that leap of faith – though perhaps with better safety precautions than a BB gun and a six-pack.
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00:16 - Introduction to History Buffoons
01:20 - Meet Lawn Chair Larry
04:16 - Planning the Flight of Inspiration One
08:42 - The Unexpected Ascent to 16,000 Feet
15:32 - A Precarious Landing and Arrest
19:54 - Larry's Brief Fame and Legacy
27:37 - Closing Remarks and Show Information
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Oh, hey there.
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Oh, hey there.
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How's it going today, Kate?
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I'm good, this is History.
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Buffoons, buffoons.
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And this is the origin of weird.
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Yes, and I am Kate and I am good, this is History, buffoons, buffoons.
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And this is the origin of weird.
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Yes, and I am Kate.
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And I am Bradley.
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And I'm a little under the weather.
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Yeah, you know, aren't we all, because we live on planet Earth.
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I mean technically the weather is Always above us, always above us, yeah.
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Unless you're raining snow and then it's below us sometimes.
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All right, let's move on.
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Yeah, getting a little metaphysical A little deep.
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Is that metaphysical?
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That's not the right word, is it?
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That is definitely a word.
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It is.
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I don't think it's the right context.
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It's the correct one.
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I am not what you would call a smart man, but I do know what love is.
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Smrt, smrt.
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Okay, so this Origin of Weird is this kind of a fun one?
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You had said that, because I had asked if you were ready for it and you said, yeah, it's kind of fun.
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So I'm interested to hear what kind of fun we can have here on the Origin of Weird.
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We're going to talk about Lawn Cherry, larry.
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Lawn Cherry, lawn Chair, larry.
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I can see how you did Cherry, because his name is Larry.
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Lawn Chair Larry.
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Lawn Cherry Larry.
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Okay, lawn Chair Larry.
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Yes, where is he from?
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So his name is Larry Wal walters I would have never got guess his first name he is a california truck driver california okay, but ever since he was a little boy, he actually wanted to fly.
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Oh yeah, so he grew some wings.
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No, I'm kidding so he bought a kite so um he became a us air force pilot what year are we talking about?
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Um, we're kind of in the 80s okay, yeah our.
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The year that we're going to talk about is 1982.
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Oh, there you go um, but he wanted to become an air force pilot, but he had pretty poor eyesight.
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Yeah.
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So it doesn't really work Well you know back then, because obviously there's lots of advancements with Blasic and all that today, which I do believe I think we might have even talked about they allow now.
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I believe Probably Because I think we talked about that in the astronaut one, oh, maybe, I believe like it doesn't matter I don't know you were there was I though but no I think, uh, I think they do allow certain uh lasik surgeries to make it so you can go in the air force yeah but back in 1982 not so much.
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You had to have 2020 vision.
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Yeah, not in fucking not so much you had to have 20-20 vision, not in fucking hindsight either.
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So instead he went into the Army.
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He went into the Vietnam War, but by 1982, he was still in love with being up in the air.
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Did he jump a lot?
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He did want to take to the skies, so you know what he did.
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Built his own plane.
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He bought a Sears brand.
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You remember good old Sears.
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The softer side of Sears.
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In fact, Softer side of Sears.
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Yeah, that was the jingle Softer side of Sears.
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Oh, I don't remember that.
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Oh yeah, the brand name or that was the jingle Softer side of Sears?
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Oh, I don't remember that.
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Oh yeah, Wow, okay yeah, softer side of Sears.
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I used to go to Sears a lot with my dad back in the day.
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Because Sears wasn't.
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Sears more about like appliances and stuff and then they started like doing clothes and that's why they had the softer side of Sears.
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Oh, I guess I remember is they always had everything, but back in the day you could buy a house from them.
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Huh, that's like all those box cookie cutter houses you could buy a house from Sears and they would ship all the stuff you need and plop it on your land.
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Interesting, didn't know that yeah so.
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I mean, that's what a lot of those old like that's why a lot of houses look the same?
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Yeah, because it was relatively inexpensive, but, you know, affordable for a lot more people kind of.
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Thing.
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So unless I'm thinking of the wrong brand, but I'm pretty sure it was Sears- Well, he did buy a Sears lawn chair.
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You know those like aluminum ones.
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Oh yeah, and balloons.
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Oh, and so he's like let's take to the sky.
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With balloons, balloons take to the sky with balloons and cherries.
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I mean, he said, if he didn't pursue this dream, he was gonna end up in the funny farm well, I feel like the way he's going about it should have went there anyways so in mid 1982, walters and his girlfriend at the time, carol van deusen, um.
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They bought dozens of large weather balloons oh dear from like a military surplus store, sure, and rented a bunch of helium tanks okay they forged a requisition, requisition, requisition, that's the one.
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Yeah, to avoid questions, sure, and obtained 45 eight foot weather balloons.
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That's a lot.
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So to buy military grade weather balloons, um lair, needed to go through like a military supplier proper, yeah, so the vendors required proof of institutional affiliation, like university or agency.
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Sure, a requisition form, basically a formal request showing you who you were and what the balloons were for, why you're getting these yeah, larry faked one.
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So way to go, larry.
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He claimed that he was purchasing them for a project.
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Well, he was.
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One site said that it was for a weather experiment, Another site it was for a commercial shoot.
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Commercial shoot Okay.
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So Walters attached the balloons to the aluminum lawn chair.
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Yeah.
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And he dubbed it Inspiration One Wow, okay.
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Lawn chair, yeah, and he dubbed it inspiration one wow, okay.
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So there were some curious cops that had rolled up and spotted larry and his, his crew, inflating what looked like rather suspicious situation going on well, I mean, that's not a common sight in 1982.
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I mean it's not a common site in 2025, let alone 1982.
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Well, he waved them off and said oh, we're just shooting a commercial.
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Was it for Levi jeans?
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It was probably for Sears.
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Well, you'd hope so.
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That's where he bought his chair from.
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So he anchored the chair to his Jeep while he was inflating the balloons.
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And to prepare for his adventure, Walters assembled a little survival kit.
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I was going to say did he have like a snack cart or beverage cart?
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Kind of yeah.
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In-flight snacks and stuff.
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So he had a parachute and a life jacket.
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Of course, no seatbelt.
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Why would you need one you?
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know, apparently he had an altimeter to measure height, altimeter, I like altimeter.
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I mean we can start calling it that.
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Can you check the speedometer and let us know how fast we're going?
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The speedometer, say it now Altimeter.
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Altimeter, but it's altimeter, yeah, and it's Altimeter.
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Altimeter, but it's altimeter.
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Yeah, and it's also speedometer.
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He had a compass for direction and a CB radio for communication.
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He's a trucker, right.
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That'd be like calling it a taco meter instead of a.
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Now I'm just screwing up the words in my brain, sorry, all right yeah.
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So so I was like who the heck is he trying to get a hold of up in the air with a CB radio?
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Other truckers?
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So there are radio operators under the agency React.
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React okay.
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And they monitor emergency CB channels and relay distress calls to authorities.
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It's like breaker, breaker.
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One nine I'm in trouble here Exactly.
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I'm flying through a serious, serious cloud wait, sorry, serious clap, such a dork.
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Okay, so he also had plastic water jugs as ballasts sure, kind of like like what they have the weights on like a hot air balloon.
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Yes, yes, exactly so he would dump the water and lighten the load if needed.
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Yeah right, he had sandwiches for snacking so I suppose he could probably pee in them to make them heavier and go down right.
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And they had snacks.
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What?
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no, no, I mean, I'm not wrong nothing was mentioned in my research I didn't even want to ask the question he had two liters of coca-cola and he had a six pack of beer you've watched.
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I think you've said you've watched super troopers once, right yes it's just like farva ordering a liter of cola.
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That's just brought that to mind.
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So sorry, I'll have to show you a clip To the clip, sorry.
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He also brought a BB pellet gun to shoot at the balloons.
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To pop them if necessary.
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Well, for when he wanted to descend.
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Right and or birds Sure.
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I mean, could be a seagull flying to your face?
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I mean, you never know.
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That'd be bad.
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So Walter's plan was to float lazily up a few dozen feet and then drift northeast over the mojave desert before using the pelican to pop balloons and come down right that didn't happen I can't believe it didn't go according to plan with what he's doing yeah, that is so scientific super surprising, because it sounds foolproof.
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It really is.
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He put a lot of thought into this.
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I mean he had an altimeter and everything.
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so Shush On July 2nd, yes, 1982.
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Ooh.
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Walters cut the cord anchoring Inspiration 1, and it shot up like a rocket.
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Do you think he's like carol, I'm going up he had hoped to hover at about 30 feet altitude.
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Altitude he probably looked at the altimeter for that so what it is?
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what is it again?
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Altimeter altimeter okay, but he didn't quite go 30 feet oh and he had how many balloons?
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was it eight or no?
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No, no, it was more right oh no, there was 45 that seems like they were eight foot each eight foot.
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That's where I was mixing the number up in my brain.
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Yeah, 45.
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How did he attach 45 eight foot weather balloons to a lawn chair?
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From sears even if it was from the softer side of sears, that's not a very small.
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I mean, I don't know what their weight capacity is per a balloon yeah I'm curious to see how much he he weighed, how much he was a smaller guy, was he?
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Yeah, clearly.
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I mean he was in the 80s, so everybody was pretty much smaller.
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I was smaller in 1982.
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Yeah, me too, I wasn't born yet.
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I was also two and a half at this time.
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A little over, but either way.
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So from the ground, Larry's girlfriend pleaded with him over the two-way radio to start popping balloons and come back Because pleaded with him over the 2A radio to start popping balloons and come back, because he was getting a little bit farther than 30 feet, right?
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Come in, Larry.
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This is Carol.
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You're going too fast.
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You're going too fast, too far.
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I'm losing sight.
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I see your shoe.
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But Larry says, quote I wasn't going to hassle with her because no way in heck, you know, after all this, my life, the money we'd sunk into this thing to just come down.
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No way in heck, I was just going to have, just going to have a good time up there.
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End quote.
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Oh, my word, okay.
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So he didn't make it to 30 feet, he didn't make it to a hundred feet, he didn't make it to a thousand feet, he went 16,000 feet feet high how is he breathing?
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well, it's got a little chilly up there for me and and the, the oxygen level at 16 000 feet can't be as good as it is at 30 feet.
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I mean, I've been up a 14 000 plus foot mountain and it gets a little rough yeah.
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He's about three miles high.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So Walter said that he was astonished by how quickly he shot up into the clouds.
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Again 45, eight foot balloons.
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Up at that altitude, lacking oxygen, kind of feeling the bitter cold up there, he found himself both exhilarated but also a bit terrified.
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Well, he wasn't even seat belted in, so oh, and guess what?
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He lost his eyeglasses oh, did he just go up too fast that they just fell off, or did he look down and be?
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like shit.
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He probably just looked down.
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Uh, yeah, I would think so so strong winds blew him into the approach path of the Long Beach Los Angeles International Airport area, right into controlled airspace.
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Oh dear.
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He drifted over Southern California and Walters used a CB radio to call for help, admitting to a monitoring citizen band group react that quote.
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This was an unauthorized balloon launch end quote.
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And he knew he was in federal airspace jesus christ air traffic controllers were already aware of something odd I'm sure they were because two airline pilots saw him, saw him and they probably read him.
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We're seeing something funny out the window here.
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Yeah, LAX, there's something that I can't quite describe ahead of me.
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There's a UFO, I mean it's unidentified, I mean it is.
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So yeah, we might need to send out somebody so the pilot of a passing twa airliner radioed the tower to report a man in a long chair floating at 16 000 feet holding a pistol in his hands.
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Oh my word, because that far you can't tell it was just a bb gun but fuck?
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no, not at all and the tower.
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Initially thought it was a joke, but of course radar was like nope, there's an object right there.
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Looks like a Larry to me.
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Is that Larry?
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again, Shit Larry.
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Walter spent between 90 minutes to two hours in the sky.
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Wow, that's impressive.
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So eventually he started working up the nerve to start his descent.
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So he used his pellet gun to shoot out a few balloons probably about seven of them.
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Used his pellet gun to shoot out a few balloons probably about seven of them.
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Okay, um, and he was pretty careful not to like unbalance his quote-unquote aircraft, well yeah, his launcher so he did begin to sink slowly.
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Okay, um, but then walters, not having planned this very well, yeah dropped something very important his bb gun, his bb gun I feel like he should have had that I don't know strapped in, tethered to the lawn chair and or himself and that's exactly what he said oh, well, see, look at go larry, we think alike yes okay so describing his dilemma over the radio walter's joke that he was in trouble.
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one way or another, He'd either eventually plummet, get sucked into a jet engine or get busted when he finally landed.
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Well, I feel like he already called it in and other people saw it, so I feel like he's getting busted anyways.
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So later the Federal Aviation Association, the FAA, estimated that if Larry had not popped these seven balloons before losing his gun, he would have ascended to 50,000 feet and been a popsicle.
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How did they guess that?
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I guess Because wasn't he kind of like steady at that for a while?
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I would imagine so.
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Of course, it didn't say that he shot up to 16,000 feet.
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But, over the course of this 90 minutes to two hours he got up to 16.
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That's how far he got.
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Okay, sure, that's what I would imagine.
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I suppose he would just keep going, yeah, so okay, yeah, yeah.
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Wow.
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So with no pellet gun, walters had to improvise.
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Did he have a knife with him or anything?
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Start cutting them loose.
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Well, not exactly, but he did start removing the water from the water jugs, the ballasts, why would you want to remove the water?
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Wouldn't that make it lighter?
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Yeah, why would that work?
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Because you'd want to add weight, not remove weight.
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Yeah, it literally says in my research that he poured water out from his jugs to lighten the chair's weight.
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Yeah, it literally says in my research that they would that he poured water out from his jugs to lighten the chair's weight.
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Yeah, because that's what it would do, but then it would make you go up.
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Well now I'm confused.
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Okay, mark the time, because I'm going to look this up real quick.
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Okay, I've got an answer, Okay.
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And we're back.
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So this was not in my immediate research.
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If you remove water from the ballast, you would be making like a horizontal change.
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Okay.
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So he was probably moving towards the ocean at this point.
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