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A Brazilian priest trying to break a 19-hour record of most time spent floating with balloons in efforts to fund a spiritual rest stop for truckers in Paranagua, was swept away by hundreds of helium balloons and is now missing.

Search parties scan the Atlantic coast in hopes to find the man who was last spotted 30 miles from his launch point.
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23 responses // Priest is carried away by helium balloons

  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/23/brazil1
    Uh oh, they've found a cluster of balloons floating around but no priest. Rescuers are hoping he's washed up on one of the nearby islands.
    richjm
  • I hope the pope has a go next
    teddy14
  • http://youtube.com/watch?v=bVq0u1BTGgE
    Reminds me of the time we lifted the car up with them balloons guh-huck.
    AROC
  • why didn't they just have someone tail him? like maybe when he started drifting out over the ocean? ?? I'd be pissed if I we're that priest.
    jh64487
  • wow.
    what a crazy priest, guess a GPS wouldnt work underwater <?>
    hope he had floating clothes and some granola bars.
    meligrosa
  • meligrosa, apparently he reported by phone a few hours into his flight that is GPS was not functioning properly.
    Vierotchka
  • Oh man, I hope he has a cell phone.
    CHARMOSH
  • (@ Vierotchka) wow, thats amazing, I always wondered how it would be to use a cell phone from up above, maybe an airplane. not to mention around ballons. I can imagine the conversation (insert portugese here) "o hey this is the flying priest, well FYI my GPS is not quite functioning, by the way the view is amazing, okay, see you sometime soon, roger out"
    -
    yea pretty gutsy man though. seems like he was well prepared, well from what the article indicates. Hope he had seen Lost, Survivor, the amazing race and (what's that other show of the guy that claimed to be able to survive anything then people were saying he would stay at motel6 between shoots?)
    meligrosa
  • some people will do anything to get closer to god.
    Danny
  • meligrosa, he had a satellite phone, not a cell phone.
    Vierotchka
  • and i had some sense of humor, but technically okay then.
    meligrosa
  • It is I suppose a crazy stunt that went wrong. Hey, he said he wanted to see God or something along those lines. Hope God looks favourably on him since we all know what the scriptures say on self annihilation. Come on, he should have known the stunt was a sure ticket outta this existence.
    jhydo
  • Sounds like a good idea (ooops) ,I mean bad omen for all clergymen to me!
    keithponder
  • They should send the flying nun after him. . .
    CarlosIsDown
  • icarus anyone?
    RudyRudell
  • What ever happened to compassion?
    walesjames
  • They should have given him a pellet gun.

    This is quite sad, and everyone making jokes about it, or wishing the pope dead, should be ashamed of themselves.
    AceHardchester
  • and followers of this faith continue to wonder why they are heckled...
    alarm_clock_acess
  • The purpose of his attempt was to raise money to fund a spiritual rest-stop for truckers in Paranaguay. I don't find this story funny at all, and I hope they will find him alive and well very soon.
    Vierotchka
  • Wherever he's gone, I wonder if he's found the Wizard Of Oz?
    Seriousy though, I pray that the man is okay.
    huntre
  • reminds me of something I say the other day, http://www.flickr.com/photos/connykuilboer/2461301489 maked me want to go up aswell!
    barryenevin
  • http://current.com/items/89076072_body_of_missing_brazi...
    Update: the priest's body has been found in the Atlantic Ocean.
    saverio

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