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[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

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From: Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
> At 06:57 PM 7/10/2007, you wrote:
> 
> >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19694083/
> >
> >
> >Hwy, somebody get a b-b gun!
> 
> Oh, I forgot the most funniest part:
> 
> quote->
> 
> Couch is the latest American to emulate Larry 
> Walters ­ who in 1982 rose three miles above Los 
> Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by balloons. 
> Walters had surprised an airline pilot, who 
> radioed the control tower that he had just passed 
> a guy in a lawn chair. Walters paid a $1,500 
> penalty for violating air traffic rules.

Larry wouldn't have had a problem if he'd launched a few miles east.  Made the mistake of drifting into the LAX approach corridor.  Even almost 20 years before the American KGB (spelled Homeland Security) organization was founded, the FAA took themselves too seriously.
--
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

In the Galapagos it isn’t counted as a turtle unless it is the size of a Volkswagen bug. They sit in pools of green water and don’t do anything. If governments followed this philosophy, the world would be a better place.        Fred Reed, http://www.fredoneverything.net/Galapagos.shtml