14 DAY TRIAL // Over the weekend, Daniel Boria of Calgary, Canada, went on a joyride high above the clouds while resting comfortably in a lawn chair, parachuted himself back on the ground and got arrested, all in just a few hours.
Being made for sitting and not for space adventures, lawn chairs don't come equipped with rocket engines. To get his to achieve liftoff, Daniel Boria had to tie over 100 balloons filled with helium to it.
The makeshift propulsion system, which came in an eye-popping assortment of colors one rarely sees in the air travel industry, worked like a charm and carried the Calgary man high up over the clouds.
Daniel Boria swears to it that the balloons helped him reach such an impressive altitude that, at one point, he looked down and saw a Boeing 747 flying below him. It was then and there that he decided to end the adventure.
The man simply jumped out of the lawn chair, and with the help of a parachute, he made it back on the ground. He was carried by winds and ended up in an industrial field, but he did make a safe landing.
“It was incredible. It was the most surreal experience you can ever imagine. I was just by myself on a $20 lawn chair up in the sky above the clouds,” Daniel Boria commented on his odd flying adventure in an interview.
Why would anyone want to explore the skies in a lawn chair?
Contrary to what some might think, Daniel Boria wasn't trying to recreate Pixar's “Up.” A business owner, the man says he embarked on this adventure in an attempt to get some publicity for his cleaning products company.
Well, if attention was indeed what he was after, the man got a tad more than he'd bargained and hoped for. Not to beat about the bush, his stunt didn't go unnoticed by local authorities, who arrested him just minutes after landing.
RT tells us that Calgary man was handcuffed and charged with mischief causing danger to life. As it turns out, flying lawn chairs over the clouds is not a very wise thing to do, not when there are actual planes flying around.
The man defends himself and says that he never meant to put anyone at risk. He just wanted to have some fun and advertise his business. “I've never done anything wrong before and this was with good intentions,” he said.
