A typically bizarre and interesting story today in the WSJournal’s “a-head” (or is it a-hed): “In 1982 Larry Walters, a man with no prior ballooning experience, attached 42 hellium weather balloons to a lawn chair, intending to go up a few hundred feet. In fact, he soared to 16,000 feet. Mr. Walters survived the flight, despite accidentally dropping the BB gun he planned to use to pop the balloons and eventually landing, unhurt, on some electrical wires.”