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23rd April 2008, 8:57am
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#1 | | Pos-Reprehensible
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| Brazilian Priest Goes Missing With The Aid Of Some Helium Balloons
I probably shouldn't have laughed at this.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/23/brazil Quote: |
Originally Posted by The Guardian A Brazilian priest is missing after drifting out to sea while trying to set a record for a flight using helium-filled party balloons, authorities said yesterday.
Father Adelir Antonio de Carli began his flight suspended in a harness-like seat from 1,000 balloons on Sunday in the southern port of Paranaguá.
He had intended to fly west for 20 hours - the record is 19 hours - but unexpected winds carried the 42-year-old Roman Catholic priest out over the south Atlantic on a south-easterly course.
Denise Gallas, the coordinator of the parish where De Carli works, said he was last heard from on Sunday evening, when he used his mobile phone to give his coordinates. "He was already over the ocean then," she said. | Quote: |
Rescue workers in helicopters and fishing boats searched the coast south of Paranaguá, in Santa Catarina state. "We found bits of balloons all along the coast," said João dos Santos, deputy fire commander in the coastal town of São Francisco do Sul.
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23rd April 2008, 8:59am
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#2 | | The sound of her wings..
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| Re: Brazilian Priest Goes Missing With The Aid Of Some Helium Balloons
LOL! They will find him frozen somewhere, or in the belly of a whale... | |
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23rd April 2008, 9:01am
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#3 | | Fattly Drawn Boy SuperMod
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| Re: Brazilian Priest Goes Missing With The Aid Of Some Helium Balloons
We were all giggling about this at work yesterday.
The headline of the report we read, though, made it sound like it was an accident, so it was a slight disappointment (is that the right word to use when someone is probably dead) when we found out he'd went off intentionally. | |
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23rd April 2008, 9:08am
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#4 | | Fattly Drawn Boy SuperMod
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| Re: Brazilian Priest Goes Missing With The Aid Of Some Helium Balloons
Also, Larry Walters, the original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters Quote: |
Walters was ultimately fined US$ 4,000 for violations under U. S. Federal Aviation Regulations, including operating a "civil aircraft for which there is not currently in effect an Airworthiness Certificate" and operating an aircraft within an airport traffic area "without establishing and maintaining two-way communications with the control tower."
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23rd April 2008, 9:10am
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#5 | | Chew you up, spit you out
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| Re: Brazilian Priest Goes Missing With The Aid Of Some Helium Balloons
Reminds me of this guy, who drifted into the airspace for Long Beach Airport...
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23rd April 2008, 10:01am
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#6 | | The sound of her wings..
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| Re: Brazilian Priest Goes Missing With The Aid Of Some Helium Balloons
Theres another one...
Some idiot actually went so high doing this that he died from asphixiation.  | |
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23rd April 2008, 12:32pm
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#7 | | the quintessential outlaw
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| Brazillian priest missing at sea after hellium balloon world record attemp
I've always wanted to make a thread called this. Just been wiating for the right opportunity. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/23/brazil
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23rd April 2008, 12:33pm
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#8 | | Experimental stooge
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| Re: Brazillian priest missing at sea after hellium balloon world record attemp
Predictably Les bet you to it.
I mean he claims to be a scientist fiddling about with agar jelly and all sorts. I reckon he just sits on the internet all day with his trousers round his ankles.
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23rd April 2008, 12:40pm
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#9 | | the quintessential outlaw
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| Re: Brazillian priest missing at sea after hellium balloon world record attemp
Where?
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23rd April 2008, 12:43pm
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#10 | | EVIL/NICE.
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| Re: Brazillian priest missing at sea after hellium balloon world record attemp
Actually, it wasn't Les, it was Dario...
Better apologise to Les before he pulls his trousers up...
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23rd April 2008, 12:45pm
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#11 | | Experimental stooge
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| Re: Brazillian priest missing at sea after hellium balloon world record attemp
Sorry Les.
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23rd April 2008, 5:57pm
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#12 | | cromulent
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| Re: Brazilian Priest Goes Missing With The Aid Of Some Helium Balloons
Christ sorry guys didn't realise there were a million threads on it already. I'm actually obsessed with this story btw :-| If anyone has read The Wasp Factory though it takes kinda sinister undertones. More sinister than a man dying by accident I mean. | |
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23rd April 2008, 6:54pm
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#13 | | Registered User
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| Re: Brazilian Priest Goes Missing With The Aid Of Some Helium Balloons
I bet when he crash lands the balloons all burst and he screams for help in a really high pitched voice like you get when u breathe helium | |
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23rd April 2008, 7:30pm
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#14 | | Quit Yo Jibba Jabba, Fool
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| Re: Brazilian Priest Goes Missing With The Aid Of Some Helium Balloons
Hahah, silly old craw!
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