Up, Up and Away In My Beautiful... House?

I liked the movie UP. Don't get me wrong. It had great characters and I felt in general it was a very well done movie. Except for the entire concept. You know, a house getting ripped off of its foundation when an old man somehow in secret ties 50,000 balloons to his house in the dead of night without anybody noticing? Yeah, that concept. And these weren't magical balloons or flubber-balloons or anything else. That I could buy into if not believe. These were NORMAL balloons.

Well, shows what I know. Check out this picture and the news story here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20040371-1.html
 

Turns out that the UP concept may be closer to reality than I imagined...