Daniel Boria, 26, pulled off the potentially deadly stunt by attaching about 110 balloons to a lawn chair. "At one point I was looking up at the balloons, they were popping, the chair was shaking and I was looking down at my feet dangling through the clouds at a 747 flight taking off and a few landing," he said.
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"It was incredible. It was the most surreal experience you can ever imagine. I was just by myself on a $20 lawn chair up in the sky above the clouds." Boria was detained on Sunday evening and released on Monday morning. He has been charged with one count of mischief causing danger to life. "I knew I would get arrested, but I didn't think they would pursue it as heavily as they did," he said.
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"I've never done anything wrong before and this was with good intentions." Boria said he sprained his ankle, but was otherwise unharmed. "We did make it as safe as possible for everybody else," he said. "Our end goal was to only put myself in danger." The charge of mischief is related to the lawn chair, which could cause damage or hurt someone when the balloons pop and it falls to the ground, said Insp. Kyle Grant from Calgary police. He expects more charges will be laid under the federal Aeronautics Act.
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I have vague recollections of a priest doing this, having the balloons pop and drowning in the sea.
If you can see a 747 taking off you are in commercial airspace, I'm all for shenanigans but do not endanger anyone else ffs.
There are one at-risk survivor and one proper Darwin award, second being the priest.
http://darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1998-11.html ("Lawn chair Larry")
http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-16.html (the Brazilian catholic priest)
@Dunex:
I was wondering if someone would remember Lawn Chair Larry!
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