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

By: taliban

taliban — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:14:46 +0000

one way of experiencing your own personal rapture!

By: Adam Stanhope

Adam Stanhope — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:58:35 +0000

Who’re you calling a hater, Marco?

By: Marco Fernandes

Marco Fernandes — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:54:53 +0000

You can reallyyyyy see what this world is made of on these lovely words typed wight next to my own ,in the end of the day for all you haters this father tried to do something for a good cause ,why so much hate guys ,honest ?do you feel GREAT and think you done something for humanity for spreading your stupid animal hate?? Anyway God save him !!

PS Instead of bad mouthing him why dont you lot tried to do something good ??Instead of being the hater couch potatoes that you all are

By: Zoltan Pendragon

Zoltan Pendragon — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:33:05 +0000

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

By: Moon

Moon — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:04:56 +0000

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!

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:37:21 +0000

Maybe he did a Danny Deckchair?

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:57:53 +0000

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!

By: ted

ted — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:40:44 +0000

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

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:36:19 +0000

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,

By: Viola

Viola — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:13:35 +0000

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

By: Ace

Ace — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:49:10 +0000

“God, save me!”

By: Alannah

Alannah — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:10:34 +0000

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?

By: biltmore

biltmore — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:43:33 +0000

LOL @ Video Game Dork!

Indeed Frank, he rightfully deserves a Darwin Award.

By: Joseph Montgolfier

Joseph Montgolfier — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:31:08 +0000

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

By: Lore

Lore — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:51:55 +0000

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.

By: empty-minded

empty-minded — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:51:37 +0000

I think the rapture came early for the padre.

By: Video Game Dork

Video Game Dork — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:25:23 +0000

…..Previously on LOST….

By: Christophe

Christophe — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:53:35 +0000

Apparently he found Steve Faucet.

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:15:39 +0000

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.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:57:45 +0000

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

By: medussa

medussa — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:20:15 +0000

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

By: MrsBug

MrsBug — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:15:04 +0000

@ fluff

Or a deathwish

By: fluff

fluff — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:07:17 +0000

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

By: Mori

Mori — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:52:51 +0000

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.