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Lawn Chair Pilot

PistolPete - 24-6-2013 at 09:17 PM

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/lawnchairpilots?ref=ts&fref=ts

Flight Tracking
http://aprs.fi/#!call=a%2FK7HUW-11&timerange=86400&tail=86400

Article
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/lawn-chair-balloonist-tree-170918559.html

Video

CBS News Video: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50149549n

indigo_wolf - 25-6-2013 at 03:41 AM

Proving once again.... Truth is stranger than fiction.




ATB,
Sam

P.S. Good movie.

beachrights - 25-6-2013 at 04:45 AM

"Wait! I forgot to go pee!"

doneski - 25-6-2013 at 08:27 AM

No shoes, no supplies, no oxygen and he planned to come down somewhere in Oregon? So without shoes he couldn't hike to a road, without supplies he had no way to keep warm, dry, fed and hydrated, and without a rope he couldn't self rescue from the tree.

The article may be lacking in detail but it looked like he planned to call for a rescue from the start since he was totally unprepared for what happens after he landed. I hope he was charged for the rescue.

He 's lucky he didn't suffocate for lack of oxygen. They'd still be looking for the body.