{"source_units": [["<NAME> had a dream that he could fly .  "], ["the problem was that larry 's vision was poor , and he was thus ill - suited to become a pilot ."], ["most people , faced with similar limitations , might let go of such a dream ."], ["<NAME> was not most people ."], ["on a sunny summer day in 1982 , in his modest backyard in san pedro , larry boarded a makeshift aircraft comprising a lawn chair , a seat belt , and forty - odd weather balloons ."], ["armed with a pellet gun , a cb radio , and a cooler full of sandwiches , he released the line that tethered his craft to his jeep , rose to a height of thirty feet or so , and had himself a little picnic ."], ["he planned to just shoot out a couple balloons and float gently back to earth , just as easy as could be ."], ["but larry , it would seem , was not so good with physics ."], ["when he released the tether , his craft rose 15,000 feet in the air ."], ["according to some reports , he did n't dare shoot out the balloons , for fear the chair would tip ."], ["eventually , he drifted into the approach corridor of long beach airport , disrupting air traffic ."], ["imagine for a moment what that must have looked like to the folks waiting for clearance to land :"], ["a man in a lawn chair with a gun , some three miles above the ground ."], ["he did finally touch down safely , though not before getting tangled in some power lines and knocking out power in the entire long beach area ."], ["it goes without saying that larry , upon touchdown , was arrested ."], ["seems the faa took umbrage with his violation of restricted airspace ."], ["but by the time they nabbed him , the story had spread , and a few crack reporters witnessed his arrest ."], ["one of those reporters asked why he 'd done it ."], ["larry 's response ?"], ["\""], ["a man ca n't just sit around . \""]], "response_units": [["there once was a man who dreamed to fly , but his vision was too poor to earn a license ."], ["although most people would 've given up against such obstacles , the man persisted at achieving his dream by taking matters into his own hands . \t"], ["one saturday afternoon in his backyard in san pedro , the man boarded his makeshift aircraft made out of a lawn chair , 40-odd air balloons , and a seat belt ."], ["he brought a bb pellet gun , cb radio , and cooler full of sandwiches with him ."], ["he cut the rope that tethered his aircraft to his jeep and soared about 30 feet into the air ."], ["his plan was to shoot down a few balloons to descend back to earth with his gun , but he was n't very knowledgeable in physics and ended up ascending to 1500 feet in the air . \t"], ["he floated all the way to the long beach air corridor where he disrupted air traffic ."], ["people on the ground watched him eventually descend onto some telephone wires where he was rescued and arrested ."], ["when reporters asked him why he 'd done it , he answered , \" a man ca n't just sit around . \""]], "correspondences": [1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 1, 10, 16, 17]}