Canadian man arrested for floating lawn chair by balloon

A Canadian man says the movie "Up" inspired him to tie over 100 helium balloons to his lawn chair and float about a mile into the air before parachuting down. CBSN's Anne-Marie Green discusses his arrest on charges of mischief.

[RareCandeh]

I don't understand why one can get arrested for doing this. Does one need a license to go that high into the atmosphere?

[kirgvevo]

disney and their live-action remakes smh

[griz]

Prisoner: so, what are you in for.

Canadian guy: having balloons float me up into the sky while sitting in a lawn chair that's attached to the balloons.

Prisoner: what?

[alonso-mbpj]

i'd be fine getting arrested for 'mischief' ahahahhaha

[dexm]

Larry Walters was the first to start, or do this back in the early 1980's. Look it up.

[okooko]

Prisoners ask him how did you come over?
I flew with balloon.

[Evaunit]

Lawn chair Larry is back and he has risen to the clouds of Canada

[tacituskilgore]

You’ll arrest someone for floating a lawn chair, yet you won’t arrest a cop who has murdered someone. What is society?

[renn]

But was he as prepared as Lawn Chair Larry (Larry Walters 1980’s)

[haroldinho]

He was definitely inspired by Lawnchair Larry

[JacquelineGroves]

In 1967 when I was 26 I tied several hundred balloons to a lawn chair and flew over 150 miles across Nebraska almost into Iowa from my parents farm. I was barley 90 pounds then. I used those small party balloons so I needed a lot of them. My uncle owned a store and he would regularly give me packages of balloons as birthday gifts. I had lots of packages of them over the years which gave me the idea. It was by far the most dangerous thing I ever did. First off I had no means of landing. No parachute only a knife to cut a few balloon strings to lower my altitude. I probably got up to 14, 000 feet. At that altitude the balloons started popping which at that point I thought I would die. Enough popped where I slowly descended and had a bit of a hard landing in a field. My parents didn’t know about it because they were gone when I did it. I hitch hiked home after that.

[CapraObscura]

More like lawn chair larry inspired him... F*cking, UP?

[laitchdasi]

Prison guard: what you in for?
This man: I attached balloons to lawn chair and.. etc
Prison guard: so you did some sort of illegal drugs?

[illumindonnaughty]

What a wimp Lawnchair Larry didn't get scared and jump just carried on floating!

[simplemind]

Florida man: finally, a worthy competitor, our battle will be legendary

[LucidLullaby]

Math teachers and Science teachers: CALCULATE THIS

[Spedin]

Plot twist: he wanted to go to Niagara Falls like the guy from up

[machninety]

Literally charged for being a trouble maker

[MichaelYoutube]

I would love it if my misdemeanor was “mischief” and not “disorderly conduct”

[theplasmatron]

They should let people explore their surroundings.