Priest Ascension!

[Furtherman]

Brazil priest carried aloft by balloons missing (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24244282/)

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Watch the skies!

[topless_mike]

wait... i've seen Gvacmobile posting this morning. maybe he's lost.

[DolaMight]

I guess god needed balloons. Lots of balloons.

[LaBoob]

Haha... love the music choice.

[A.J.]

He was no Sky Pilot.

[topless_mike]

maybe he wants to be next in line for the pope (read last paragraph) (http://www.newsnet5.com/news/15858923/detail.html)

[Furtherman]

After attempting to break a 19-hour record for flying while suspended by hundreds of helium party balloons to raise money, a Catholic priest from Brazil has been reported missing. Rev. Adelir Antonio de Carli went missing eight hours after he took off on Sunday, and no one has had contact with him since. Searchers have scanned the Brazilian costal waters but have only found remnants of the balloons.

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[FUNKMAN]

should have taken spirit airlines instead



teehee

[Mike Teacher]

Many may remember Larry Walters, who did actually go aloft with a bunch of helium ballons and a lawnchair in 1982; most of the accounts are incorrect a bit, snopes and others have what really happened, and this really happened:

The Truth

This story has been widely disbelieved by skeptics, but it really happened.

Walters was employed as a truck driver in Southern California. On July 2, 1982, he fastened 42 surplus balloons to a lawn chair and launched from his girlfriend's San Pedro home. He carried various supplies with him as well as a CB radio and a BB gun to shoot balloons one at a time to descend. He didn't realize how powerful the buoyancy of the balloons was.

When he cut a rope holding him to terra firma, he took off with such a jolt that another anchor rope broke under the stress and he shot upward so quickly that his eyeglasses flew to the ground. He floated around the L.A. basin for several hours and reached altitudes of up to 16,000 feet. According to an article in the New York Times the next day, Walters was spotted by pilots from both TWA and Delta Airlines.

It was cold at 16,000 feet and he started shooting some of his balloons to descend, but dropped his BB gun and had to wait for his rig to come down on its own. He landed in a residential neighborhood in Long Beach where got tangled in some power lines, causing a power blackout. He told reporters that his weather balloon flight had been a dream of more than 20 years. Larry Walters died eleven years after his flight from what the Los Angeles Times described as a self-inflected gunshot wound.

[Furtherman]

He floated around the L.A. basin for several hours and reached altitudes of up to 16,000 feet. According to an article in the New York Times the next day, Walters was spotted by pilots from both TWA and Delta Airlines. .

I would LOVE to hear the transmissions between the pilots and the tower.

[SatCam]

Brazil priest carried aloft by balloons missing

no one told him there was a stairway?

[Tall_James]

no one told him there was a stairway?

Yeah, but the stores were all closed.

[Furtherman]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/04/21/flyingprieststory.jpg

Navy suspends search for missing ballooning priest (http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2008/04/21/5349886-ap.html)

[Furtherman]

Oh sorrrrieeeeee...

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SAO PAULO, Brazil (July 29) - DNA tests confirmed that a body found off the coast of Brazil is that of a priest who disappeared while flying over the Atlantic buoyed by hundreds of brightly colored party balloons, authorities said Tuesday. (http://news.aol.com/article/body-of-ballooning-priest-found-at-sea/107766)

[A.J.]

Oh sorrrrieeeeee...

http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-photohub/dims/NEWS/1/618/412/60/http://o.aolcdn.com/photo-hub/news_gallery/5/6/566052/1217418985108.JPEG

SAO PAULO, Brazil (July 29) - DNA tests confirmed that a body found off the coast of Brazil is that of a priest who disappeared while flying over the Atlantic buoyed by hundreds of brightly colored party balloons, authorities said Tuesday. (http://news.aol.com/article/body-of-ballooning-priest-found-at-sea/107766)

"Where's your Messiah now, Padre????"

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