I saw this film footage years ago. Was having a conversation about it with some young fellas over the holidays and re-discovered it on Youtube:
Not wanting to burst your balloon ;), but my favourite is Larry Walters.
According to published reports, Walters was employed as a truck driver in Southern California. On July 2, 1982, he fastened 42 surplus balloons to a lawn chair and launched from his girlfriend’s San Pedro home. He carried various supplies with him as well as a CB radio and a BB gun to shoot balloons one at a time to descend. He didn’t realize how powerful the buoyancy of the balloons was. When he cut a rope holding him to terra firma, he took off with such a jolt that another anchor rope broke under the stress and he shot upward so quickly that his eyeglasses flew to the ground. He floated around the L.A. basin for several hours and reached altitudes of up to 16,000 feet. According to an article in the New York Times the next day, Walters was spotted by pilots from both TWA and Delta Airlines. It was cold at 16,000 feet and he started shooting some of his balloons to descend, but dropped his BB gun and had to wait for his rig to come down on its own. He landed in a residential neighborhood in Long Beach where got tangled in some power lines, causing a power blackout. He told reporters that his weather balloon flight had been a dream of more than 20 years. Larry Walters died eleven years after his flight from what the Los Angeles Times described as a self-inflected gunshot wound.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/l/lawnchairlarry.htm
Who’s filming him after he’s jumped?
Who’s filming him after he jumped?
Not burst my bubble!..was that a pun? 
A remote camera fixed to the balloon. Presumably, there were aircraft at lower altitudes which continued to film him?
By the way. he was testing pressure suits for the NASA space programme. Only a balloon could take him to that altitude, and jumping, was his only way back.
Sorry the off topic but…someboby would like like to comment this ?
THE Red Arrows have been banned from performing at the 2012 London Olympics as they are too BRITISH</B>.
Barmy organisers claim the popular RAF display team’s military background “might offend other nations”.
The decision has left pilots, who were set to perform their best-ever display at the opening ceremony, in a state of outrage.
One said yesterday: “We have been simply blown away by this decision.
“For years we have talked about performing a display at the Olympic Games and how magnificent it would be.
“It never crossed our mind we would be banned from the event.”
Thats BS, I dont care if they fly
Seems like it is just a rumour…
Yep. The rumour about the Red Arrows has absolutely no relation to reality.
That was a nasty rumour, thanks for the answer.