Icarus

Just a cool story that I thought you would enjoy.

There once was a man named Larry Walters. Now Larry had a dream. Larry wanted to fly. Larry had always dreamed of flying but was unable to become a pilot in the Air Force due to bad eyesight.
Years before, he had seen several weather balloons in an army surplus store and got the idea that it would be great if he could just float away on a baloon. In July of 1982 he bought and rigged 42 weather balloons to an aluminum lawn chair. He sat down in the chair with a bag full of sandwiches, something to drink, and a BB gun.
He reached down and cut the line that held the chair on the ground. The chair (with Larry in it) shot into the sky.
Larry planned to use the BB gun to shoot a balloon or two if he got too high or wanted to come back down. So Larry just floated around and enjoyed himself. He was flying!!

Not only was he flying, he was flying at about 16,000 feet!!
He eventually drifted down after shooting a few balloons with his BB gun. He was arrested and fined by the FAA for operating a"civil aircraft for which there is not currently in effect an airworthiness certificate"
When a reporter asked him why he had did it, he responded "A man can't just sit around."