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Show 'Ballonist' sky high in lawn chair A man who lifted off from his fiance's backyard in a lawn chair with 45 weather balloons and water jugs to use for ballast rose to around 16,000 over southern California and then came back down by shooting out some of the balloons with a BB gun. Larry Walters landed in Long Beach, about 20 miles away from where he started in San Pedro, and ended up tangled in power lines after police had the electricity turned off. The 33-year-old truck driver said he decided to come down when it -became so cold that he 1 turned numb. Walters was spotted by two jetliner pilots during the 445-minute flight. |