#lawnchair larry

[diamondnokouzai]

"Well, ah, stay safe and try not to chud it up." Recorded to Lawnchair Larry in 1982.

[insurguitor]

The Flying Tailor and Lawnchair Larry Gotta be two of my favorite people in history <3

[freackthejester]

What would be really insane is if they found the sub and only one guy was left because he killed the others like in that song "Timothy"

My take on this issue of the day is that I am being a bit of a ghoul, and I'm at peace with that. The most powerful thing that I have is my attention, and that is not going to do anything to help those people. Whether I gloat or worry about their souls, the rescue effort is, very similar to the Evergiven being stuck, going to continue at the pace the professionals are giving it, and nothing I do is going to change that.

Wait, here's a meme I just made

It really is a horrible way to die, but that's why we have to make jokes about it. Humor can serve several purposes, and processing the anxiety brought up by just the concept of being stuck inside a metal pill that looks like a fleshlight while you shoot around in deep sea currents every hour it becoming more clear that help can't get you and that unlike the Titanic, no one will be able to find your little ship to gawk at you, because you are so so small and fleshy:

Like, that's horrific. See how I had to say the thing about the sex toy in the last paragraph? That's because we need a distraction from the gravity of it, that really thinking just gets too maudlin too quickly.

Big ups to the hugely empathetic people who are horrified, and keep bringing the conversation back to the idea that this awful thing is happening to real flesh and blood people. Your way of living in this world sounds fucking exhausting and I can't do it.

[laikacore]

it was something i had to do

art by laika wallace

for larry walters, famous for flying over long beach in a chair tied to 43 weather balloons. 

from his wikipedia (no links so the post doesn’t break):

On July 2, 1982, Walters attached 43 of the balloons to his lawn chair, filled them with helium, put on a parachute, and strapped himself into the chair in the backyard of a home at 1633 West 7th Street in San Pedro. He took his pellet gun, a CB radio, sandwiches, beer, and a camera.[citation needed] When his friends cut the cord that tied his lawn chair to his Jeep, Walters's lawn chair rose rapidly to a height of about 16,000 feet (4,900 m) and was spotted from two commercial airliners.[3] He slowly drifted over Long Beach and crossed the primary approach corridor of Long Beach Airport.

After 45 minutes in the sky, Walters shot several balloons, taking care not to unbalance the load. He then accidentally dropped his pellet gun overboard. He descended slowly, until the balloons' dangling cables got caught in a power line at 432 East 45th Street in Long Beach. The power line broke, causing a 20-minute electricity blackout. He landed unharmed on the ground.

suicide tw for under the cut, from his wikipedia in the section on his later life

Later in his life, Walters hiked the San Gabriel Mountains and did volunteer work for the United States Forest Service. He later broke up with his girlfriend of 15 years and could only find work sporadically as a security guard.[14] On October 6, 1993, at the age of 44, Walters died by suicide after shooting himself in the heart in Angeles National Forest.[14]

[lux-atomica]

Lawnchair Larry

On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters made a 45-minute flight in a homemade airship made of an ordinary patio chair and 45 helium-filled weather balloons. The aircraft rose to an altitude of over 15,000 feet (4,600 m) and floated from the point of takeoff in San Pedro, California, into and violating controlled airspace near Los Angeles International Airport. During the landing, the aircraft became entangled in power lines, but Walters was able to safely climb down. The flight attracted worldwide media attention and inspired a later movie and imitators.

[sssaccharine]

I saw the Drunk history with Larry the Lawnchair guy (he basically tied weather balloons to a chair and flew, watch the video) and was like ‘what happened to him? where is he now?’. He fucking broke up with his girlfriend Carol after 15 YEARS and SHOT HIMSELF in the forest. I was not ready. Poor dude flew in a lawn chair 16,000 feet in the air. Honestly what a rollercoaster for 7pm at night. 

[monky]

I’ve been really into this Wikipedia article lately …have you heard about the lawnchair larry flight?

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Lawnchair Larry’s wikipedia page is a thing of pure beauty

[finonve]

Loser lawnchair Larry

[traegorn]

June 2nd, 1937

Amelia Earhart disappears over the Central Pacific

June 2nd, 1947

Exactly ten years after Earhart's disappearance, an unidentified flying object crashes near Roswell, NM.

The Airforce claims it was a weather balloon.

June 2nd, 1982

Exactly 35 years after the Roswell crash, Larry Walters (aka "Lawnchair Larry") takes off in a homemade airship, constructed from a lawchair attached to 45 helium filled WEATHER BALLOONS.

WEATHER.

BALLOONS.

COINCIDENCE!?

[diamondnokouzai]

dont read the wikipedia page for lawnchair larry its actually a bummer

[chakytron]

The Best of Colin Hanks - Drunk History

The Best of Colin Hanks – Drunk History

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[trivipedia]

Lawnchair Larry en zijn opvolger

Lawnchair Larry en zijn opvolger

Larry Walters was een Amerikaanse trucker, die eigenlijk piloot wilde worden. Vanwege de sterkte van zijn bril was dat niet mogelijk. Toen Larry op zijn 13e een keer heliumballonnen in een winkel tegen het plafond had zien hangen, bedacht hij zich dat hij dan wellicht ballonnen kon gebruiken om toch de lucht in te gaan. Twintig jaar later, in de zomer van 1982, vond Larry, die inmiddels in de…

[thetiredinsomniac]

Larry Walters, the man who flew 16,000 feet high in a lawn chair

On July 2, 1982, a man called Larry Walters ascended into the sky, with a lawn chair, 45 balloons, a parachute, sandwiches, a bottle of soda, a camera, a CB radio, and a pellet gun (to shoot down the balloons). He flew up to 16,000 feet and accidentally flew into controlled air space above the Los Angeles International Airport. He then radioed to air traffic control so that they knew he was there. He was worried that popping the balloons would make him fall but he eventually popped them, descending to the ground for 90 minutes before getting caught in power lines in Long beach.

Once on the ground, he was fined $4,000 but the fine was then dropped to $1,500. He told the Times  “I didn’t think that by fulfilling my goal in life--my dream--that I would create such a stir, and make people laugh.” He was given the nickname "lawnchair Larry" and was invited to appear on the tonight show and also late night with David Letterman. He quit his job as a truck driver and became a motivational speaker but he struggled to make money. His chair was given to a neighbourhood boy called Jerry who later loaned it to the San Diego Air and Space museum in 2014. Unfortunately, Walters committed suicide in 1993.

Information found here.

Read about a man who died eating paste.