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Balloon priest search scaled down

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:10:45 GMT

clipped by: JediKnut
clipper's remarks: Well, they're scaling down the search for the Priest... not a good sign.

Well, all we can say is we hope for the best!

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Balloon priest search scaled down

Rescue teams in Brazil have scaled down efforts to find a Catholic priest who blew out to sea while attached to 1,000 helium-filled party balloons.

Father Adelir Antonio de Carli was trying to break a flying record but lost contact with port authorities on Monday morning.

The Brazilian air force called off its search today and officials say the navy is also considering suspending operations.

Firefighters continue to comb beaches and islands where Fr de Carli may have washed up but they too concede it is increasingly unlikely he will be found alive.

The only signs of him since Monday have been floating clusters of balloons, some as far as 150 kilometres away from where he last made radio contact.

Parishioners say Fr de Carli's ordeal is a test of faith and are maintaining their hope through prayer.

Tags: balloon, priest, helium, record, charity

Lost Priests Balloons Found

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:43:13 GMT

clipped by: JediKnut
clipper's remarks: Follow-Up to a story I read earlier... Missing priests balloons found, still no sign of the priest.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Ballooning-priest rescuers find balloons but no priest

Rescuers searching for a Brazilian priest who was attempting a world ballooning record have found a cluster of his brightly coloured inflatables floating miles out to sea - but no sign of the missing man.

The Roman Catholic priest took off on Sunday strapped to 1,000 helium-filled party balloons in a bid to break a 19-hour flight record and raise money to build a spiritual rest-stop for truckers in Paranagua, southern Brazil.

He was wearing a helmet, aluminium thermal flight suit, water-proof overalls and a parachute

Father di Carli was reported missing about eight hours after taking off when he lost contact with port authority officials. Bad weather forced his makeshift contraption out to sea off Brazil’s southern coast.

The one thing he didn't take with him was a bible **wonder why not

Tags: balloon, priest, helium, record, charity

PostSecret

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:39:43 GMT

clipped by: JediKnut
clipper's remarks: PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

New secrets are posted here every Sunday

Some of them are quite interesting, others are just cute or funny, but all are worth checking out! Go to the site to see more.

Clip Source: postsecret.blogspot.com

PostSecret

Clip Source: postsecret.blogspot.com

Sunday Secrets

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard

New secrets are posted here every Sunday.

I worked in the billing department for a company that ran tons of fetish porn sites. If the wife called and was nice to me, I wouldn't tell her that her husband had a membership to a porn site. But if she was nasty to me, I would cheerfully give her the link so she could check it out.

I was one of the few who didn't. But I still, to this day, don't like the person I was when I wore a badge.

I wrote my own secret about suicide, planned to go through with it, but showed my friend. I am still here today to read yours and i hope that you will be too to read others and feel the way i do now, which is something like having a secret friend.

- Charity (with permission)

Tags: postsecret, secrets, postcards