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Police charge man who floated over Stampede in a chair suspended by balloons...

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As the title suggests, this is pretty much what happened.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/police-investigating-sighting-of-man-in-lawn-chair-suspended-by-balloons-floating-above-calgary-stampede

At cloud level: Man who floated over Calgary Stampede in chair suspended by balloons charged with mischief
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Tom Warne / TwitterA man sitting in a lawn chair suspended by balloons was seen floating above the Calgary Stampede Sunday.

Just when Stampede-goers think they’ve seen it all, something new floats by.

It looked like a scene from the movie “Up” on Sunday evening, as a man sitting in a lawn chair attached to dozens of helium balloons drifted near the Stampede grounds.

Tom Warne took to Twitter with a photo of the uncommon sight around 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

“Hope it’s not a stampede #balloon vendor out of control,” he posted.

Tom Warne saw the device high in the clear blue sky around 7:20 p.m. Sunday and snapped a photo from the northeast community of Thorncliffe.

On Monday morning, police classified the bizarre incident as a “PR stunt by the individual for his company.”

“He put over 100 helium balloons…and attached them to some sort of chair and began floating through the air. He got so high that he was at cloud level,” said Acting Insp. for District 1 Kyle Grant.

Grant said the balloon man, who has been identified as 26-year-old Daniel Boria, had no way of steering the device.

“He was only going by the wind currents,” Grant said.

After flying for an undetermined amount of time, the man jumped out of the floating lawn chair and parachuted to the ground.

He landed in a green field near the Stampede grounds.

“The fact he landed near the Stampede was more of a happy accident for him. He had no idea where he was going to end up,” Grant said.

“He had stated to our officers he was worried about the height he was getting at and decided to jump.”

After parachuting from the floating lawn chair, Boria suffered an injured ankle, but declined EMS assistance.

EMS spokesman Stuart Brideaux said the man was assessed by paramedics around 8 p.m. “for some minor injuries sustained allegedly when he parachuted from his lawn chair.”

Boria was met by police and transported to the court services system, where he was charged with one charge of mischief causing danger to life.

While penalties for that charge range, Grant said chances are Boria will end up with a fine.

Grant classified the stunt as dangerous and said it’s lucky the chair, or Boria, didn’t injure anyone on their way down from the air.

“Obviously it’s not a regulated device. It’s something that he concocted himself,” Grant said.

It’s not clear where the lawn chair ended up.

Grant said it’s possible anyone who aided Boria with the stunt could also face charges.

The longtime police officer said attaching large helium balloons to a chair and flying over the city is not a good idea.

“I’ve been on this job for 20 years and this is the first time I’ve seen something like this. Usually you see it on the TV shows of things not to do,” he said.

Calgary Herald

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Very crazy - I think you gotta be either super brave or ridiculously stupid to do that.

Wonder what the fine will be?

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This kind of foolish stunt is getting popular. Awhile back some guy did this in L.A. (because he was bored apparently) and ended up totally disrupting air traffic at LAX AND, while landing, got caught up in a bunch of power lines which knocked power out to a large chunk of downtown L.A. Another would be aviator (IIRC a priest) went up somewhere in South America and drifted out west to the Pacific ocean... and was never seen again. Don't do it kids...

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