Lawnchair Larry

If you know my sister, Karen, you know that she has a funny bone. When something strikes her as humorous, everybody will be laughing. So, while we were driving through San Diego one day, she says, “Have you ever heard of Lawnchair Larry?” We hadn’t, so when we got home, she printed an article about him off the internet and read it aloud to us.

Apparently, in 1982, Larry bought some weather balloons and wanted to cruise around his backyard at about 30 feet, so he tied a lawnchair to the bumper of his car and filled the balloons with helium. When he cut the rope, he took off “as if shot from a canon,” leveling out at 16,000 feet!! The story just keeps getting more and more bizarre. He was up there for hours, until he floated into the airspace of LAX airport and was spotted by some pilots. All weekend whenever someone would remember a line from the article and say something like, “he packed sandwiches and a six pack,” we would fall around the house in fits of laughter.

You can read the article and see the photos here: LawnchairLarry Amuse yourself!