Ballooning Priest Won the 2008 Darwin Award

Adelir Antonio de Carli the ballooning priest has just won one of the most un-coveted awards in history, the Darwin Awards. For those of you who don't know, they are awarded to those who "remove themselves from the gene pool" in a particularly stupid fashion:

Sitting for more than 19 hours in a lawn chair is not a trivial matter, even in the comfort of your own backyard. The priest took numerous safety precautions, including wearing a survival suit, selecting a buoyant chair, and packing a satellite phone and a GPS. However, the late Adelir Antonio made a fatal mistake.

He did not know how to use the GPS.

The winds changed, as winds do, and he was blown inexorably toward open sea.

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Previously on Neatorama: 30 Strangest Deaths in History


I've noticed that the Darwin awards seems to be age descriminate. Every once in a great while you'll hear of a kid doing something really stupid and paying the ultimate price, but the stories never seem to end up on the Darwin awards. I guess all the parents out there would create way too much fuss and our poor delicate society couldn't handle the thought of kids not being immortal, even though they're fine reading gory stories of adult stupidity.
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Least he could do is come up with something original.

Hoonage At 13000 Feet: Lawn Chair Balloonist Flies 193 Miles
Jul 10, 2007 ... Ken Couch is the quintessential American adventurer Last weekend he hitched helium balloons to a lawn chair and set out.
gizmodo.com/gadgets/hoonage-at-13,000-feet/lawn-chair-balloonist-travels-193-miles-276688.php -

Possibly the first one?:

http://home.earthlink.net/~quade/lawnchair.html
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I C KooK "This is kooky, totally kooky I tell ya!"

I had a brain fart when I saw this. Maybe you could change your ID to "I M Kook"? Just a thought. No charge for the idea. GGGGG
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