Brazilian priest takes to the air attached to helium party balloon, disappears

• Mori
  April 22nd, 2008 at 11:52 am

  Actually he made contact with his satellite cell phone and in his last call, with the rescue teams, they actually heard him hit the ocean. The weather was bad, with up to 65km/h winds. That was more than 24h ago.

  Too bad for him. It seems he didn’t know how to use his GPS (so he couldn’t give precise readings to the rescue teams).

  The moment he realized he was going to the ocean he should have blown off his balloons to hit the ground, but he initially assumed he would be able to fly above the rain clouds, as he told when he left ground (it was already raining), but alas, he didn’t.

  He must have hit the sea in very bad weather and quite a distance from the shore.

• fluff
  April 22nd, 2008 at 12:07 pm

  Well; Some call it fate. Some call it stupidity.

• MrsBug
  April 22nd, 2008 at 12:15 pm

  @ fluff

  Or a deathwish

• medussa
  April 22nd, 2008 at 12:20 pm

  Stupidity, or severe mental health issues. Maybe he thought his god would protect him, many people suffer from that delusion.

• Frank
  April 22nd, 2008 at 12:57 pm

  *cough* *cough* Darwin Award! *cough*

• Evilbeagle
  April 22nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm

  Uhm, yeah. It sucks that he is probably injured or dead, but seriously, you have to be a special kind of stupid to do something like this at all.

• Christophe
  April 22nd, 2008 at 1:53 pm

  Apparently he found Steve Faucet.

• Video Game Dork
  April 22nd, 2008 at 5:25 pm

  …..Previously on LOST….

• empty-minded
  April 22nd, 2008 at 7:51 pm

  I think the rapture came early for the padre.

• Lore
  April 22nd, 2008 at 7:51 pm

  Why have a gps if you don’t know how to use it? This could have probably been successful if they had thought it out a little more and planned it during better weather.

• Joseph Montgolfier
  April 22nd, 2008 at 8:31 pm

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters

• biltmore
  April 22nd, 2008 at 9:43 pm

  LOL @ Video Game Dork!

  Indeed Frank, he rightfully deserves a Darwin Award.

• Alannah
  April 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 pm

  Wow. I wonder what his last thought was. Probably something along the lines of “Oh, yeah, I was asking for this.”
  Anyone else have any ideas of what his last thought was?

• Ace
  April 23rd, 2008 at 12:49 am

  “God, save me!”

• Viola
  April 23rd, 2008 at 1:13 am

  Don’t worry, Ace! Jesus will save him!

• Christophe
  April 23rd, 2008 at 5:36 am

  Joseph Montgolfier’s link mention the A-team’s best episode in my eyes:
  “I want some trash bags! I want some trash bags!”
  LOL

  I guess the reverent plan did not come together,

• ted
  April 23rd, 2008 at 6:40 am

  Is he wearing tin foil? He forgot to put the hat on, too.

• Nate
  April 23rd, 2008 at 5:57 pm

  RE: Darwin Award

  You forget this man is a priest, therefore he will not be passing on his genes anyway. I guess all priests are instant winners!

• Brett_McS
  April 23rd, 2008 at 7:37 pm

  Maybe he did a Danny Deckchair?

• Moon
  April 23rd, 2008 at 8:04 pm

  People, people! Nobody ever said that the Rapture was going to be quick!

  They are taking them one at a time on balloon chairs. This is just the beginning. When the Rapture gets fired up, the sun will be blotted out by balloon chairs!

• Zoltan Pendragon
  April 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 pm

  I hate to tell you all this…but that priest is no priest. That’s Paul Reubens…Also known as Pee-Wee Herman

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