(from Darwin Awards web site - 02 November 2000)A classic from the Darwin awards archive (1982, California) Larry Walters of Los Angeles is one of the few to contend for the Darwin Awards and live to tell the tale.
He hatched his weather balloon scheme while sitting outside in his "extremely comfortable" Sears lawnchair.
When his friends cut the cord anchoring the lawnchair to his Jeep, he did not float lazily up to 30 feet.
He crossed the primary approach corridor of LAX, where Trans World Airlines and Delta Airlines pilots radioed in reports of the strange sight.
Safety Inspector Neal Savoy said, "We know he broke some part of the Federal Aviation Act, ...
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