Stupid Priest Earns Darwin Award Nomination

A priest, a rabbi and a muslim imam are all tied to a thousand party balloons floating out to sea. Well the joke goes something like this but without the rabbi and the imam.

To qualify for a Darwin award, you must do something stupid which gets you killed and removes you from the genepool. I think this priest now qualifies for this distinction as he is most likely dead.

From Reuters here:

Rescue workers were losing hope on Thursday of finding a priest who disappeared off the southern coast of Brazil after drifting out to sea four days ago suspended from hundreds of helium-filled party balloons.

Father Adelir Antonio de Carli went missing on Sunday night after he called friends from his mobile phone to say his contraption made of some thousand balloons would soon crash into the Atlantic Ocean.

“The chances (of survival) are increasingly slim and we are considering when to end the search effort,” said Lieutenant Francisco Jose Cavalcante of the navy’s southern search unit.

De Carli had left from the southern port of Paranagua and wanted to fly 20 hours due west but winds unexpectedly carried him out to sea in the opposite direction.