100 helium balloons and a lawn chair

[Faust]

Incredible stunt:

100 helium balloons, a lawn chair and a scary flight lead to mischief charge

[Temporary_User]

On Monday morning, police classified the bizarre incident as a “PR stunt by the individual for his company.”

I don't see any banner attached so I assume this idiot knew he would get caught and put on the news. Good to see the Calgary Herald not fully taking the bait and publishing his business.

[jar_e]

I watched his descent and it's probably a small miracle he didn't kill himself. At about 1000 feet, he was in a pretty uncontrollable spin.

Quite a failure as I'd imagine 99.9% of people on the grounds didn't even realize what had happened.

[shermanator]

Part of me thinks this is awesome, and another part of me thinks "WTF is this idiot doing"

[Looch City]

He really didn't think that through very well...could have been a candidate for Darwin Awards.

[jar_e]

From the Sun...

http://www.calgarysun.com/2015/07/06...ce-lay-charges

Dan Boria on Sunday launched underneath a canopy of balloons from a park in northeast Calgary, hoping to parachute onto Stampede Park.

"The winds were pretty fierce up there, no doubt ... the winds were so strong, it pushed me back," said Boria, who sounded excited.

"I jumped out of the chair and landed about a mile away the grounds.

"I can't specify the altitude I went to."

Boria had just been released from police custody after being charged with mischief when he spoke to the Sun.

The stunt went airborne to promote a cleaning company, with the balloon-lawnchair contraption flying its banner.

[White Out 403]

The longtime police officer said attaching large helium balloons to a chair and flying over the city is not a good idea.

This quote brought to you by Calgary Police Captain Frank Obvious

[GoinAllTheWay]

for some minor injuries sustained allegedly when he parachuted from his lawn chair

That line from the article just cracks me up. "Parachuting" from a "lawnchair" That's just fricken funny.

[Bobblehead]

Larry Walters was the first one to do this stunt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters

Mythbusters have tackled this one and there was a movie made about Larry.

The helium for this would have been expensive as hell, so you know he must have a pretty large bankroll. I hope the penalty he will receive takes that into account.

[killer_carlson]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337960/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsef...2agrxHAxiHjK8V


Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto and the zany Australian rom com Danny Deckchair

[rayne008]

I think this was awesome.

Calgary could do with a little more mischief.

[SebC]

Booo fun police.

[Nyah]

I just think of the consequences if he'd come down anywhere else, ie. Deerfoot, any other major road system, into the Zoo, etc.

[Locke]

It would have been better if people had been shooting at the balloons from the ground.

[Northendzone]

the police sharpshooters should ahve brought him down one ballon at a time.

would be fun to try the stuntif there was a way to float about 10 feet or less off of the ground

[troutman]

Earth is running out of Helium!

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24903034

[Deelow]

Anyone else?

[TurdFerguson]

the Nenshi quote machine should be working overtime on this one...whats taking so long!

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by Locke

It would have been better if people had been shooting at the balloons from the ground.

I would be way more into stampede if that was one of the choices for midway games.

[alexle]

Guy's company released video of the balloon launch.