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Man tied 42 helium balloons to a lawn chair, soared to 16,000ft, and instantly became every insurance company’s worst nightmare
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We Got This Covered
The southern California truck driver attached 42 helium-filled weather balloons to an aluminum lawn chair and took off into the sky above San Pedro.
Instead of floating at 30 feet, Walters shot upward at about 1,000 feet per minute.
A TWA pilot reported seeing a man in a lawn chair at 16,000 feet holding a gun.
In 1982, a man tied 42 helium balloons to a lawn chair and soared to 16,000 feet.
His try at being a motivational speaker did not work out, and after giving away his famous lawn chair, he mostly stayed out of public view.