This guy balloon guns

Thinking about it, you could really fuck with local authorities.

Drench yourself in the water at the shore, wear clothes with tags torn out, and have a notebook in your pocket with pages after pages of random numbers. Police and intelligence agency staff will work all-nighters to figure out who was the spy they found and who shot them.

Mary Glockkins

Some guy at a lake bear me once killed himself. He had a cgest wound but they found no gun. Suicide wasn't really on the table because it's weird to shoot youself in tge chest, and then where is the gun? Did he throw it in the lake with hia last breath? Non of it made sense, the bullet hole was weird, they found gunpowder residu that wasn't common from gunfire. At his home they found a sort of contraption that no one cared about, because it seemed unrelated. But then they found a similar one next to the body and it was a string and some branch and a little rock or whatever he used. He was swinging that rock around to hit the bullet at the right location to fire it. They suspected it took him hours. Later they found out that people saw him for weeks, sitting there playimg with some rock branch toy or whatever.

What an absolute insane way to die.

I wonder if there is a level of elaboration in suicide planning where you stop being suicidal, because now you have a lot of interests and leafs of motivation are now so far from the original trunk, that you now have will to live.

Now you like walks near the shore, checking weather patterns and how they form so you could notice them with your naked eye. Now you picked up balooning hobby, maybe you got in contact with other people on a forum, maybe you read a book. Now you got interested in materials science and chemistry, you organized a little lab somewhere and got sucked up by this fascinating subject. Later on you could start thinking about marine life and if it would be affected by your actions. That would be another rabbit hole. Maybe someone asked on the ballooning forum about glues and it was something you have recently read from a chemistry book and you recommend against said glue, because it could be harmful for marine life.

Elite balloon knowledge

Or just don't do it next to beach front housing

One day, ballons deflate

Corpse comes raining down out of the sky

No one will know what the fuck is going on

Thank me later

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/brazil-priest-flying-party-balloons-lost-at-sea-idUSN22281921/

On the morning of Jan. 25 he left his $900,000 home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., for that walk

What a weird fucking detail to start the article with

reality is stranger than fiction

or more likely, anon was inspired

Damn. Went from funny to oh shit.

Of course it's Florida man.

It seems likely but doesn't explain the lack of a casing

When you're both in hell silly.

Either that or they just peg it on the relative or random black person, fabricate evidence and testimony, and then send an innocent to jail.

Directed by Robert B. Weide.

is it failproof?

use two of the same model with the same bullets and do a double tap to the back of your head

Ghouls. Missing items at crime or accident scenes happens. People come across the scene and help themselves.

What if you don't hold it normally? Use a type of ammo from a weapon normally too long for suicide and connect something to the trigger so you can reach it, or wrap the balloons string around it.

If you watch enough true crime you can probably work out how to make your suicide look like a murder, or at the very least leave them confused for a while.

I'll just shoot myself with a gun made of ice instead

Yeah, use hydrogen for quadruple the lifting power! Send that gun to space!

You better commit suicide in an environmentally friendly way!

Helium is no longer all that scarce but balloons definitely create pollution and kill animals

There are a couple viable alternatives to helium for this particular application. Hydrogen and methane are both adequate lifting gasses.

IIRC, we get a ton of helium from methane extraction now, which we're increasingly relying on. We have more helium than we know what to do with at the moment I'm pretty sure. Now, once we stop using methane for power, then sure, it's limited. Currently it's a byproduct that there isn't enough use for compared to what's produced.

As someone who's underpaid to work in a nature preserve, please don't do this. So many of my coworkers have ptsd from finding / cleaning up bodies.

Your asking a lot of a depressed person. I don't think I could ever be in the mood to kill myself after hiking out a couple of miles, but I love nature. Maybe it would work for someone else.

Other than the next hiker who you are traumatizing

I remember hearing a similar story, but I've got no idea where to start with looking something like that up.