Taking steps to fulfill your dreams

How far will you go to fulfill your dreams???? (A true story) THE LAWN CHAIR MAN Larry Walters went to the local Army surplus store and purchased 45 weather balloons and serveral tanks of helium. He securely strapped the balloons to his sturdy lawn chair and anchored the chair to the bumper of his jeep and inflated the balloons with the helium. Larry packed serveral sandwiches and loaded his pellet gun figuring he could pop a few balloons when it was time to descend. Larry's plan was to lazily float up to the height of about 30 feet above his back yard and come back down in a few hours. Things didn't quite work out that way for Larry. When he cut the cord the lawn chair streaked into the LA sky as if shot from a cannon. He didn't level off at 30 feet, but 16,000 feet. At that height he couldn't risk shooting any of the balloons. So he stayed there drifting, cold, and frightened for more then 14 hours. He found himself in the primary approach corridor of LAX airport. A Pan Am pilot first spotted Larry. He radioed the tower to describe passing a guy in a lawn chair ..with a gun! Radar confirmed the existance of an object floating above the airport. A rescue helicopter ascended to a postion several hundred feet above Larry and lowered a rescue line. Larry snagged the line with which he was hauled back to earth. He was arrested by waiting members of the LAPD for violating LAX airspace.