In 1982, Larry Walters from California decided to fly and created an airship made of an ordinary patio chair and 45 helium-filled weather balloons. He took his CB radio, sandwiches, and a pellet gun (he wanted to land by shooting the balloons.) Larry planned to rise 30 feet high, but Walters’s lawn chair rose rapidly to a height of about 16,000 feet. He was scared to shoot the balloons and spent 14 hours in the air.

After 45 minutes in the sky, Walters shot several balloons. He descended slowly, until the balloons’ dangling cables got caught in a power line. The power line broke, causing an electricity blackout. Fortunately, the man survived. He was fined $1,500 and awarded with the Darwin Award.