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Subject: [Leica] Lawnchair Larry Rides Again!
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:05:32 -0600
References: <20101208054937.GK1058@jbm.org>

I see that Lawnchair Larry later shot himself at the ripe old age of 44. I 
thinking his genes are out there in someone.

Jeffery


On Dec 7, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Jeff Moore wrote:

> Remember Darwin Award winner Lawnchair Larry from 1982?
> 
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters
> 
> Well, certifiably insane station manager Ken Freedman of WFMU in
> Jersey City, NJ has procured weather balloons and many large tanks of
> helium, preparing to heed that "Hey, Bubba, watch this!" from across
> the decades.  It's a fundraising thing for his listener-supported
> freeform radio station, the number of balloons to be filled to depend
> on the money raised.  But he's done a lot of research, and enough cash
> to meet the station's fundraising goal should loft him high over New
> Jersey.
> 
> I'll be live(ish) photo-blogging the event, starting around 9AM
> US-Eastern (as live as I can be using a real camera and ducking inside
> periodically to pull pictures off and upload - I'm just not down with
> the phone thing like the cool kids).
> 
> Pictures should show up here:
> 
>  http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/sets/72157625428225585/
> 
> so check back periodically, or just follow the twitterbrations of
> @WFMU as things proceed.
> 
> Do consider yourselves invited to toss a few dollars in the helium
> fund to make this happen:
> 
>  http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/
> 
> It's for a good cause, the world's almost-certainly-coolest radio
> station.
> 
>  http://www.wfmu.org/
> 
> Yrs,
> 
>  Jeff
> 
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