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Flying high
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Flying in a lawn chair: Assisted by 150 giant party balloons.
Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert recently, landing in a field in Idaho. Kent Couch created a sensation in this tiny farming community, where he touched down safely in a pasture after lifting off from Bend, Oregon, U.S. and was soon greeted by dozens of people. "My wife works at the City Market," said Hetz a local plumber. "Sh
e called and said, ’The balloon guy in the lawn chair just flew by the market, and if you look out of the door you can see him.’ "We go outside to look, and lo and behold, there he is. He’s flying by probably 100 to 200 feet off the ground. "He takes his BB gun and shoots some balloons to lower himself to the ground. When he hit the ground he released all the little tiny balloons. People were racing down the road with cameras. They were all talking and laughing." Couch covered about 235 miles in about nine hours after lifting off at dawn from his gas station riding in a green lawn chair rigged with an array of more than 150 giant party balloons.
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