Associated Press



Kent Couch, 48, lands his lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons on Saturday in Cambridge, Idaho. Couch created a sensation in the tiny farming community when he touched down safely in a pasture. Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, the gas station owner flew the apparatus about 235 miles in about nine hours after lifting off at dawn from his gas station with an array of more than 150 giant party balloons.