Flying Lawn Chair

Kent Couch called it a boyhood dream. Others may just call him nuts.

On Saturday, Couch flew from Oregon to Idaho in a lawn chair. That's right, a lawn chair.

Couch tied 150, four-and-a-half foot balloons to his lawn chair and filled them with helium. What do ya know, it worked, The balloons lifted Couch to a cruising altitude of 15,000 feet.

Nine hours later, it was time to land. Couch took out a B.B. gun and shot out the balloons one by one.

"You know it's a dream to be able to get this far," Couch said. "I don't know really know why I wanted to come to Idaho. I just wanted to get out of the state and go somewhere."

Couch isn't done yet. He's thinking about taking a lawn chair trip over the English Channel or maybe across Australia. But that's only if his wife lets him.