This is a good one from one of my aviation classes:

"One person who was fascinated with helium balloons was awarded the Darwin award, for accomplishing a near death feat of exceptional stupidity. He tied several hundred small, party helium balloons to a lawn chair chained to the ground. He expected that when he released the chain he would float up to a comfortable altitude and then use a pellet gun to shoot out balloons and reduce his lift. Instead, he immediately climbed up to a height of over 15,000 feet where a commercial airline pilot was astounded to see him flying. A dangerous helicopter rescue was attempted and succeeded."

Classic. Anyone want to give me a hand blowing up balloons? I think it would be fun. Although, we might have to scale down the number of balloons!