Its just natural selection doing its job.

Anyone that allows themselves to be lifted into the air by a bunch of mulit-coloured balloons, to set off on a journey, is doomed to end in tears.

dism said...

Proof of the non-existence of 'God'?

I mean: Would a god really allow a priest to die like this?

The priest did it so God allowed it. People do stupid things all the time. Witness driving a boat full blast into a trawler on Sydney Harbour the other morning.

Stewie said...

Its just natural selection doing its job.

Anyone that allows themselves to be lifted into the air by a bunch of mulit-coloured balloons, to set off on a journey, is doomed to end in tears.

True but not really natural selection as Roman Catholic priests voluntarly remove themselves from the gene pool.

Who knows? he might end up in Namibia in a couple of weeks time. Budget Steve Fosset.

man... I have done some dumb sh.t with my buddies but this tops it. I remember when I saw the photos in the paper. All I could think was... hm, I seem to recall having a similar crazy idea in a drunken haze at a pub but dismissed it as outright stupid once I sobered up.

Think he had watched to many movies, sounds alot like "Danny Deckchair" to me, did someone tell him it only worked in the movie because of special effects.

Hmmm Maybe the old fella seen the discovery channel then.

I volunteer to have a go myself.

Uncle frank would sponsor me.

Looking at the picture on www.clusterballoon.org/ looks easy. Just lots of nice colour balloons and that's all you need. How easy.

Looking at www.clusterballoon.org/ . Its probably the most silly thing I have ever seen, but it will allow anyone to go for a fly.

He may have landed in the middle of a cannibal tribe village.

We tried it a couple of Easters ago ( the religious theme go's on ) with " Polly " the blow up doll . She couldn't get off the ground with the 10ish knot wind -- just kept bumping along the ground. So the next day a quick trip into town to buy a packet of balloons ( we were camping at a beach out of Albany ) saw the experiment resume.
Even 20 or so helium filled balloons tied around Polly's neck didn't do much more than get her to hover a couple of metres above the ground -- a real strange sight seeing a blow up doll with a heap of ballons tied to her neck and a length of string stopping her from escaping.

Poor old Polly finished her days taped to an oar out front of the dinghy we had tied up at the beach -- just like in the Viking fleets.....