Lawn Chair Balloons for Border Patrol

You may have read earlier this week about the 235 mile lawn-chair balloon flight of Kent Crouch on CNN earlier this week. On Monday, you probably read the follow-up on PerezHilton.com about Brazilian priest, Adelir Antonio de Caril who wanted to break a world record for lawn-chair ballooning and disappeared into the atmosphere, never to be seen again.

His body was found earlier this week. Well, his story didn’t have a happy ending, but this one does – and there's a video!

Here’s a trio acting as Border Patrol on the U.S./Mexico border. Their idea: flying up in lawn-chair helium balloons to get a better view of “illegals” to keep America “safe”.


This is Border Patrol: