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Balloon man floats 235 miles in lawn chair

An Oregon man landed safely in Idaho after floating 235 miles at 10,000 feet above the ground in a chair attached to a cluster of balloons. Kent Couch, 48, of Bend landed near Cambridge, Idaho, Saturday after floating about 235 miles in a lawn chair suspended by 160 large helium-filled balloons.

"A customer said, 'Oh, it's the balloon man, it's the balloon man.' So we ran outside," said Laurene Houghton, owner of the Cambridge City Market. "It's the closest thing to Mary Poppins I have ever seen!"

This was the third time the gas station owner tried floating from Bend to Idaho in a chair tied to balloons. Couch said his flights aren't "that dangerous" but he took a parachute and satellite phone just to be on the safe side.

Couch also hinted he might try the same stunt with a floating television and snack bar.

Son beats dad in pit spitting contest

Brian "Young Gun" Krause bested his father Rick "Pellet Gun" Krause to win this weekend's International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship in Michigan. Pellet Gun's other sun, "Drool" did not qualify for the event.

Competitors exercised their best spitting skills Saturday at the 35th International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship at Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm in Eau Claire, Mich.

"Young Gun", 30, of Dimondale, Mich., beat his father, "Pellet Gun", 54, of Yuba City, Ariz., by 6 1/2 inches.

"Young Gun's" winning spit was 56 feet, 7 1/2 inches - roughly the distance from a professional major league baseball pitching mound to the catcher.

Combined, the father and son have won the pit-spitting crown 20 of the 35 years it has been awarded - many of those years they were the only entrants into the contest. Their reputation has swayed potential competitors to stay out of the contest for fear of injury.

In the women's division, Amanda "Spittelle" Jennings, 18, from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, said it was "cool" to win in the women's division for the second consecutive year. This year, she took the crown with a 43-foot, 11-inch spit - not counting the 3 and 1/2 inch handicap allowed according to the womens' division rules.

Frozen 'hands' prove to be animal gonads

The new owner of a Texas apartment called police when he found what appeared to be human hands in the freezer -- only to learn they were animal testicles. One can see why any sane person would make such a mistake.

Patrick McCusker of Fort Worth stumbled across the items (testicles) Friday while he was cleaning out the freezer for the first time in a long, long time.

Roger Metcalf of the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office said the objects did indeed look like hands, especially since they had been placed inside a plastic surgeon's glove. Why animal testicles were placed inside a pastic surgeon's glove is beyond comprehension, but, nevertheless, there they were.

"You couldn't tell what they were until you got the things open," he said. Metcalf said the objects are now outside the Medical Examiner's jurisdiction.

The office will not determine what type of animal the testicles belonged to; however, a maintenance man told the newspaper the previous owners of the apartment once killed a wild pig. "With his bare hands," he add.

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